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1.) You started this thread, openly calling me a cultist 2.) You slandered Reformed theology, continually bashing it. 3.) You come back every so often to through out your Scripture-less slander and rants, providing fact-less conjecture 4.) If we say nothing, you cry victory. If we speak up, you...

I try to convince no one. If you truly felt secure, you would not feel the need to cling onto your own choice or to come back here and comment the same thing over and over without actually contributing anything other that slander and idle speculation with 0 reference to the Word of God. I love...

Romans 12:3 -- .... yes, God DOES chose whom will and will not have faith, though this choice is not arbitrary; He chooses some and not others because it brings Him glory to do so. He is concerned foremost with His glory. Believe it or not, God does not revolve around man.

If you don't do this and this and this you are not a Christian. You tell others that they do not know they are saved because they don't place their trust in themselves. What a farse! You don't know repentance to God; you know acceptance of your own ability. You trust more in your own abilities...

Nope, because there is no such thing as free will.

Oh but they do have a choice; they just hate God and thus will never choose Him. It is the fault of man't sin nature, not the fault of God. God does not hold back; man's nature does. I love how you say "according to you" this and "according to you" that. According to you, Christ's blood does...

Everyone has a choice. They just always make the wrong one unless God changes them. \ And what is faith if not trusting even when you are unsure? What you have is not faith; it is self-reliance; you are more sure in your own abilities than Christ's blood, which is not Christian at all.

By their fruits you will know them. But you are here to sow discord. Not once have you actually wanted to learn anything new; you are perfectly content sitting there feeling self-justified and poking fun at those who refuse to join in your self back-patting.

I personally am affiliated with the RPCNA. Here is our statment [thought I am not sure how much it would differ on baptism if at all...] https://rpcna.org/history/constitution.pdf

A mother's love for her child. Almost all mothers care for their children. My point, however was that there was nothing holding her back from making whatever decision she saw fit

Still, nothing was hindering her from making her decision.

Free agency. The mother made a simple choice. "HA! What if something was seriously wrong with the child!" Did the mother know this? No. Was there anything hindering her from making her choice? No. The only thing that stops free agency in making some choices is the fallen will of man.

The difference is that man, as a moral agent, is incapable of choosing correctly unless God actually changes their hearts [which is why the Israelites, although they saw so many miracles and great wonders] still turned to their idols. Because as a moral agent, they are incapable, and indeed want...

I'm actually glad you asked [not being sarcastic I promise!] This is a common misconception that is spread to give Calvinism a bad name. We believe in free agency, but not free will. [stay with me here, the term is misleading.] Free Agency -- God does give us the freedom to operate within His...

Yes it is part of His will. But that does not mean that He kills them; He allows them to be killed. He allows the universe to operate with free agency.

No, I believe that they are predestined from birth. Your theology is the one that turns things inside-out. You claim you have to accept Christ to be saved, but how can babies accept Christ? And since God can't change their hearts, and it has to be their own choice, are they all then doomed?

God allowing things to happen, and [as you said earlier] actually taking the life of the righteous are 2 different things. As for Job, of course he would say he is righteous; He was righteous in Christ. He knew that he was declared righteous before God for the Savior's sake.

They were what way? Sinful. Fallen. Depraved. Exactly. Who's children were the ones sitting on His lap? The children of those who were following Him. And who were following Him? The people who believed in Him; the believers. These were the children of the believers, not the children of...

I don't follow. Careful now, since you accused God of killing the righteous. Is this any more or less than what you suppose that Calvin did? [He didn't do what you think he did anyways.]