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Perhaps you could answer my question. What is morality? How does one know what is moral and what is not? If morality is not based on God or the Scriptures, what then is morality?

Well thank you for the compliment, and I would like to say that I as well enjoy our discussions.

Praise the Lord for his mercy! I am so glad to hear that He reached you despite life's trials! Welcome to the forum and God bless you!

I would say that there is a difference between a cult and heresy. A cult is just a group of people with a specific religious persuasion, which I would say even Christians fall under, not at all in a bad way just strictly definitionally. A heresy however is a belief that goes directly against...

The fact that you choose to blind yourself to the truth is not my problem. How is anyone supposed to prove anything to you when you refuse to believe the truths they present. It's like the hungry baby who cries because he is hungry, then refuses to eat. There is nothing I nor anyone can do if...

I agree! I do love my graphics! What I do is I google the graphic I want, save it to my laptop, and then upload it using the upload file option next to the post reply. It works for me, and I hope it helps!

I do agree that what is has become [ie hyper calvinism] does not represent what Calvin taught. However, Calvinism as explained in the canons of Dort does not go against Calvin's teachings. I assume by Calvin's works you are referring to the Institutes... might I ask what translator translated...

Because Gods intentions and heart is always pure, mans is not. Because we dont create ourselves, and herefore have no claims on our or others lives. Because we do not continually sustain ourselves or anyone else, but God does. Again, you are pointing at us and demanding we explai our God, who...

Because we are sinful, God is not. You are trying to equate yourself to God, which is not possible. Let me ask you this; who decides what is moral? What is morality? Morality unless based in Scriptures is purely subjective.

Amen!

Now, a question for you; Why do you think that you have the right to demand God to prove Himself to you? Who are we to look at the Almight Creator, point our fingers in his face, and demand He explain Himself or else we won't believe?

God is the manifestation of morality. Morality is only moral because God said so. Who gave the children life in the first place? What did Job say? Naked I came, naked I shall return. The Lord gives and He takes away. Now, I don't know about you, but I am in no position to sit here and place God...

Depends on what you base your moral standards on. For a Christian who believes the Scriptures? No.

Everyone's belief has to be founded on some principle that cannot be explained. Mine is the God of Scripture. And I believe what he meant was that God through faith presents the truth to His people, but He is not in the business of proving Himself to those who simply demand it before they will...

What Calvin wouldn't recognize is what is called hyper-calvinism. Totally different belief

Amen!

Because Calvinism grounds it's beliefs 100% on what the Bible actually says, not on what it wants the Bible to say. You can twist Scripture all day and make almost anything sound good, but Calvinism tries its best to tell you what the Bible actually says. I prefer to call it Reformed Theology...

And do we wonder WHY this was made? The 5 points were made in response to the 5 points of Arminianism, which went against the beliefs the church had held up to that point. Aminianism was condemned as the heresy! The 5 points of Calvinism, which were called TULIP, simply restated the beliefs of...

There are times when Jesus was indeed kind to sinners, and others when he needed to be firm and put his foot down. I believe that the fate of the souls of his people is one of the 'put the foot down' moments

Of course. And yet he drove sinners out of his temple with a whip