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Yes, I agree!

I agree with you.

Not so. If humans have full responsibility for all their actions, words, thoughts, and their whole lives, that belief is not fatalistic. Fatalism is the thought that we don't.

Well, I'm a member of a large church where they stay close to the very words of God in the Bible in their teaching and preaching. My previous church did too, but they ignored the parts in the Bible that tell us to reach out to unbelievers around us. That's why I changed churches.

Why do you quote this verse, Amigo?

My friend, where in the Bible do you find your belief? That's all I'm asking. What is the basis for your statement? You don't cite any Bible passages.

A small minority of Calvinists believe in double predestination. A majority believe that God chose to save some and passes by others who are unbelievers to let them have their own way. God's predestination without sinning and people's full responsibility for their own choices are both taught in...

Yes, I'm a Calvinist. And yes we believe that we are saved by grace through faith with the result of good works prompted and empowered by the Holy Spirit (Ephesians 2:8-10). We believe that when we are born again, God gives us faith to follow him. They happen simultaneously. God has his plans...

Thank you for your testimony. It seems to me that the seeds that God sowed in your life at an early age he made to grow later into true faith. All the honor goes to him!

Dear friend, how do you know these things? What is the basis for you beliefs?

After being a pastor in a Reformed denomination for 27 years, I left the congregation of which I was a member in retirement because the Bible says that we should reach in to minister to members but also reach out to community people who have no church home or faith. The lack of outreach got to...

Dan, I'm curious. Why do you think "Reformers teach heresy" and that they won't "inherit the Kingdom of God"? I follow Reformed theology. How am I not "right with the Lord"? I don't believe in arguing about anything but in discussing it rationally with the Bible as its focus.

Why are you quoting these persons' falling away from the faith they had? What's your point?

I have a lot of issues with the RCC's developing a separate tradition from the Bible, including the saints and Mary, but they do profess to believe in the Trinity, which Protestants do too, rightly. However, the Jews and Muslims do not.

You're very welcome, fellow believer!!

I'm curious. How then did you become born again?

Properly understood, Calvinism isn't fatalistic. Both God's plans for his whole creation and human responsibility of all of their lives are true in the Bible and Calvinism (Genesis 50:20).

Then, you misunderstand Calvinism. Someone has misinformed you about its beliefs. The Reformed faith on the basis of the Bible says that God has his plans for all events AND that humans are fully responsible for all their lives. Joseph's profession of faith in Genesis 50:20 is the clearest...

Since God saved me 66 years ago at the age of 16, I know he put in my heart to read the whole Bible over and over again. God has given me that idea to help me interpret the Bible on its own assumptions, not on human assumptions. I recommend it to everyone to avoid the dangers that you point out...

But God uses the gospel to save us by his revelation of the Bible: Rom 1:16 For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek. Rom 1:17 For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith for...