I was going to wait tomorrow to post the biblical verses that show the five points of Calvinism as they are called are actually biblical.
So here we go looking at TULIP
1) T= Total Depravity. As written it means that mankind is not as bad as it can be, but is as bad off as it can be. All of mankind is spiritually dead (lost) until one is born again -John 3:3
Romans 8:8
King James Version
8 So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God.
Unsaved man is in the flesh (fallen human nature) so an unsaved man is incapable of themselves to do anything to please God. Trusting in Jesus is something that pleases God.
Frtom Romans 3:
10 As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one:
11 There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God.
12 They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.
To the unsaved mind, the things of God are foolish:
1 Corinthians 1:18-23
King James Version
18 For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God.
19 For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent.
20 Where is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the disputer of this world? hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?
21 For after that in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe.
22 For the Jews require a sign, and the Greeks seek after wisdom:
23 But we preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews a stumblingblock, and unto the Greeks foolishness;
there is no soundness in the unsaved:
Isaiah 1:5-7
King James Version
5 Why should ye be stricken any more? ye will revolt more and more: the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.
6 From the sole of the foot even unto the head there is no soundness in it; but wounds, and bruises, and putrifying sores: they have not been closed, neither bound up, neither mollified with ointment.
Psalm 58:3
The wicked are estranged from the
womb: they go astray as soon as they be born, speaking lies.
Psalm 51:5
Behold, I was shapen in
iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me.
Unsaved man is dead in their trespasses and sin.
Ephesians 2
King James Version
2 And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins;
2 Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience:
Man was created in teh image of God. That means man is trichotomous-body,soul and spirit. When Adam sinned he died that day as God warned, but it wasn't physically or mentally. He died spiritually. Man is not alive spiritually until they are born again.
I think this is enough to show that man is incapable to have any type of relation with God in their unsaved state, nor even want to choose a relationship with God in their spiritually dead unsaved state.
2) U= Unconditional election: all this is saying is man does not have to do works , clean up their act or any action other than believe to come to Jesus. the formula for salvation is very simple::
Romans 10:9-11
King James Version
9 That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.
10 For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.
11 For the scripture saith, Whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed.
John 3:18
King James Version
18 He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.
Ephesians 2:8-10
King James Version
8 For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:
9 Not of works, lest any man should boast.
10 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.
Titus 3:5
Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us,
by the washing
of regeneration, and renewing
of the Holy Ghost;
the only thing one can do as a sinner and dead in their sins is receive what God offers.
But how can one who cannot please God receive something god said is foolishness to us?
Romans 10:17
King James Version
17 So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.
God enables faith in the ones who are to be saved..
Happy Fathers Day. More tommorow.