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You want me to show you where God's word is wrong? Seriously? What an absolutely asinine request.

I have about ten commentaries in my personal library on Paul's letter to the Romans. Among them there is a range of views on the meaning of the letter generally and specifically with respect to various passages. There is not a one of them that would come even close to your views. And given...

I believe those passages from God's word. Why would I not? That doesn't mean I agree with what you think those passages mean. The difference would be the issue of your view about calling and thinking that God has Himself, based upon nothing whatsoever about the individual, decided whom He...

Why don't you start by explaining it. Then I will decide whether or not to bother showing where you are wrong.

There is so much wrong with Calvin's understanding of Romans 9. But regardless of what you think Romans 9 is all about, God clearly establishes the conditions for whom He will save and whom He will condemn; and it has nothing to do with speaking to anyone directly. It is a bit ironic that you...

Good luck with that. There is not much chance you will succeed since it fairly clear that there is no understanding at all about what either being born again or being a Christian means.

First, that is a terribly tortured rendering of the words logos and rhema. But I will leave that for others to do their own research on it. My first inclination when I hear anyone claim to have been spoken to by God is to reject, almost out of hand, whatever it is that they think God said. If...

Those were not "false" Christians. They were Jews, his kinsmen according to the flesh, Judaizers.

When do you think we are forgiven?

A sower of such confusion.....

If you knew what a Christian is, maybe you would understand. But since you don't........

Yes, of course. It is by faith that they healed the lame beggar. The NIV is not a good one for that verse. That is Peter telling the council why the Gentiles were being accepted. They believed in God. OK , so what are you trying to say?

Opinions, opinions, only opinions.

Once again an irrelevant piece of understanding void of God's living word.

To God’s elect, exiles scattered throughout the provinces of Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia and Bithynia, 2 who have been chosen according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through the sanctifying work of the Spirit, to be obedient to Jesus Christ and sprinkled with his blood:

That is indeed true. The spirit in man is "the breath of the Almighty". It is the spirit in man that makes him understand, gives him understanding. That is what the Bible is for. That is what the Holy Spirit did. The Bible is how God gives the spirit in man that understanding. He gave that...

I have no problem with any of that. The problem is your view of who and how God chooses. To think that God would choose most of humanity, having absolutely nothing to do with who they are or what they do and giving them no recourse, to be eternally condemned is really bad . That stinks to high...

Given that you obviously haven't a clue about even what a Christian is, this discussion is worthless.

What or who do you think a Christian is?

That is true. The question is which comes first. I say the one who believes and baptized is saved. Those are the ones which God foreknows and elects. Since God is omniscient, He knows even before one is born, before even the creation of the world, who will believe. He doesn't predestine the...