Now you're lying (that's a sin). I have NEVER said that repentance is given before hearing the gospel
You didn't need to say this directly.
Your theology teaches it.
The only reason anyone repents in your doctrine is because they were already chosen to believe and repent. Every single thing they do is controlled by God. They are Gods puppet.
Even all of your sins, God decreed you to do them in your religion.
You were going to repent before you believed, just as you were going to believe before you believed because God decreed your destiny before you were born!!!
That is why when you calvanist commit sin you believe God has already predetermined for you to commit it. Therefore you were already predetermined to repent before God saved you. Everything you do is "preprogrammed" before you do it.
Now you're lying (that's a sin). I have NEVER said that repentance is given before hearing the gospel
btw, I didn't sin. But why are you pointing out I supposedly sinned when your doctrine teaches it is God who works evil in all of us? You have a problem with sin? Then you have a problem with your own god, as he is the one who made me to sin.
God ordains everything that comes to pass, remember?
Heres the real problem. You don't remember how you are supposed to think.
You are supposed to think like a calvinist!!!
Just as you supposedly claim to now understand the gospel. God did that, not you. And God created you to not understand the gospel before you understood it.
This is the foolishness of reformed theology.
You teach you could not understand the gospel.
God hid the truth from you.
But now you claim you do understand the gospel. God opened the truth to you.
Why should I believe you?
Its circular reasoning.
You will say: if someone interprets scripture the way calvinists do then they now understand therefore must have been regenerated.
That presupposes calvinist interpretation is rightly dividing scripture.
How could you even know if its rightly dividing when you already believed God hid the truth from you?
God could still be hiding the truth from you and you are just decieved into thinking you have been elected. Every thought you will ever have is divine determinism.
You have no choice or ability to choose not to think you are lost or saved.
Gods word His gospel is not hidden from anyone.
People who don't understand either reject it by their own free will or have not had enough opportunity to be exposed to it. Jesus said if you search you will find the truth.
John 7:17,
- if
any man will do His will, he shall know of the doctrine, whether it be of God or whether I speak of Myself
Any, Any, Any man shall know the truth if he chooses to know it.
You will twist this to mean only those whom God chooses.
God has chosen all to be saved,
1Timothy 2:3-4,
- for this is
good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior
- who will have
all to be saved and to come unto,the knowledge of the truth
Unregenerate man cannot repent or believe (because he is hostile towards God (Rom. 8:7,8); hates the light and will not come to it (John 3:19,20) and does not receive the things of the Spirit of God (1 Cor. 2:14)). When God makes a person born again, having heard the gospel, he not only can repent and believe, but he does, immediately
Exactly.
Before he hears the gospel he is saved in your theology.
Regeneration precedes faith.
he was going to believe and repent and sin etc. Before he ever heard the word. God already predetermined it.
Since your false doctrine teaches one is saved before they believe in the gospel.
Your theology is anti- gospel.
Being born again, by itself, does not save you.
Unscriptual.
At the point of being born again your sins are forgiven, you are justified.
You do not understand Gods word.
You have made a mess of Gods word.
You teach this because of the false doctrine of T, total depravity.
Regeneration is being born again.
You cannot be lost according to Gods word if you are born again.
Being born again, by itself, does not save you. Salvation has several elements, all of which are necessary (e.g. repentance and faith in Jesus Christ and the cross); and one cannot be said to have been saved until he has believed in Jesus Christ, and has been forgiven.
Heresy. You must make a mess of what is simple to understand because of Total depravity.
One error leads to more error.
There is not one scripture that says the born again are still lost.
You are making up doctrines that are nothing more than speculation.
The blasphemous doctrine of totally depraved T in TULIP.
Listen to what R. C. Sproul Jr. Says about a little girl who was mudered.
He believes this because of his belief in Total Depravity.
" No it does not remotely compare. Because in one instance a
little girl received the judgment from God she had earned...."
A calvinist leader tells people this little girls murder was Gods judgment on her for her wicked sins she commited. SHE DESERVED/EARNED HER OWN DEATH/ MURDER!!!
It should be obvious to anyone who is not yet indoctrinated into this wicked theology, that little children do not deserve or earn their own death because of being totally depraved, wicked.
Yet David1701 is trying to convince me, he understands Gods word and since I reject this wicked blasphemy I'm lost.
David1701 has no understanding of who God is.
The god he believes in is not found on the pages of Gods holy word.
1Timothy 2:3-4,
- for this is
good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior..
Who will have all men to be saved
David's religion has that little totally depraved murdered little girl in hell.
The gospel of Jesus Christ is GOOD news.
Calvinism is anything but good news.
It is fatalism.
You can know what David1701 teaches is a false gospel by this simple fact. It is not good.
The gospel of Jesus Christ,
Luke 2:10,
- and the angel said unto them, fear not, for behold I bring
good tidings of great joy which shall be to ALL people