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I have one suggestion: Quote exactly the five points of Calvinism directly from the Canons of Dort, and let us decide what we think about those teachings instead of telling your incorrect interpretation of them. By the way, the five points aren't just based on Paul's letters but on other...

You only quote verses 14-17 but neglect the following context, which says, " Joh 3:18 Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God. Joh 3:19 And this is the judgment: the light has...

Have you read the Institutes of the Christian Religion by John Calvin? Your opinions will change once you learn from the original source instead of listening to what people are saying about Calvin.

No, being an author is God's calling to me in my retirement from being a pastor in seven churches. He has given me the spiritual gift of creativity through writing. I just finished the first draft of a historical novel that is my 14th book. At the age of 82, I'm thankful that God has given me...

Fellow believer, you refer a lot to the Church Fathers. You don't believe that they were infallible in their writings, do you? You only cite one Bible verse out of context. For me, I will not claim that I'm sinless, when the Apostle Paul struggled with sin (Romans 7) and said that he wasn't...

With all due respect, you do a lot of generalizing about Evangelical Christians' teachings and actions. I've been a member of and preacher in several Evangelical churches. They all have their faults, of course, but God has promised to bring good out of their weaknesses. I am a seed-scatterer; I...

You're very welcome! NotTheRock, God has a very good purpose for every evil he PERMITS to happen. Witness his allowing Satan to take away Job's family, wealth, and health. Those were Satan's fault entirely, not at all God's; but God showed us the persistence of true faith in Job's faithful...

I don't know. The reason is that I don't know whether or not they accepted Jesus before they died. I leave it in God's hands; I'm not their judge; God is.

Heresies also involve paying attention to certain verses (for example, that point to universal salvation for everyone), while unintentionally or intentionally ignoring all the verses that limit (for example, by showing that many unrepentant people will be lost forever) the first set of verses...

You are now on my prayer list, Grailhunter. God delivered me from seven years of major depression 14 years after Keith's death with a type of prayer that David, Job, and Jeremiah used but that is not in our culture, the lament. Seventy-three out of the 150 Psalms are at least part lament. After...

I invite you to watch our pastors' sermons online at chapel-pointe.org and see thoroughly-biblical preaching and application of the Word of God. I would say that other people who profess Jesus have their responsibility before God and will answer to him, while you have yours. It's between you and...

2) and 3) Job is described as "blameless and upright, one who feared God and turned away from evil" (1:1). In other words, he was a true believer who looked forward to the coming of his Redeemer, the CHRIST (Job_19:25--"For I know that my Redeemer lives, and at the last he will stand upon the...

Enlightenment in that verse does not mean salvation in all of those people's lives, as the context shows. In verses 16-18, the passage says that people who reject Jesus are going to "perish," a way of saying that they will, sadly, be separated from God forever. Thus, Calvinism is biblical, since...

Answers from the Bible: 1) No. 2) Yes (Job 1 and 2, where he stops Satan from taking Job's life). 3) No, he doesn't "approve" of anything Satan does, but he permits Satan to attack Christians in order to enable us to grow in our faith. 4) Yes, put on God's armor and pray persistently (Ephesians...

Dear Behold: Do you believe that God is three Persons, though one God; that Jesus is fully-God and fully-man; that we are guilty until God's grace accepts us because of Jesus' death; and that we are empowered to live grateful lives by his resurrection? Do you believe that God inspired the...

Yes, God called me to be a Calvinist at Calvin Seminary with a semester course on the Institutes taught by a Calvinism expert. That is the Calvinism that I consider to be biblical that I have shared with you. God allowed me to be christened a Methodist, grow up in and join a...

Yes, this passage is in the "already" part of Romans (chapters 1-11), whereas Paul commands us to make spiritual progress in replacing the old sinful nature (flesh) with the new righteous nature that he has given us in chapters 12-16. For example, are you joyful, prayerful, and thankful all the...

But what I'm trying to share with you is that we need to keep seeking spiritual progress that Paul calls us to do.

I give up trying to share with you the true Calvinism instead of the hyper-Calvinism that is really fatalism. Believe what you want about Calvinism that might characterize a few fatalistic Calvinists, but please don't generalize about all of us. That's very unfair and unloving to most...