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So, it actually means the one who is forced to receive him? Funny, it doesn't say that. If God is doing everything it's just God receiving God.

Maybe you better read the whole of Romans, so you can understand what is in view. It's not about individual election. Let me give you a couple thoughts just on those verses tho': First: this verse alone shows we have the will to oppose God: "Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against...

None of those passages claim we can not respond to God when convicted by his Spirit.

Seriously? It was his study of the Epistle to the Romans as an Amsterdam minister that set Jacob Arminius firmly against Calvinism. Faith, he believed, was the cause of election: "It is an eternal and gracious decree of God in Christ, by which he determines to justify and adopt believers, and...

Like this?: "Because, if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved." That takes the power of choice. Like this?: "But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of...

Those verses are telling us not to be carnally minded. Otherwise, they are pointless. If we have no choice in the matter, why teach us that we have no choice in the matter? That's absurd. It's like mocking someone for being ignorant when they can't do otherwise.

I have supper every night. What he said to copy was to eat the bread in remembrance of his sacrifice. Not just eat a meal.

Where does it say he lost 500 disciples? 28 Then they asked him, “What must we do to do the works God requires?” 29 Jesus answered, “The work of God is this: to believe in the one he has sent.” 30 So they asked him, “What sign then will you give that we may see it and believe you? What will...

Babies are innocent. Do you believe babies who die go to hell?

Jesus equates belief with him partaking of him All through the chapter. It's obvious if you have ears to hear.

If you had no free will then you could not be blamed for anything you did. That makes God unjust to punish people for just doing what they were programmed to do. it would be like blaming animals for acting like animals.

Yes God is the first cause. Obviously. But you realize that many biblical scholars disagree that the Bible teaches what John Calvin taught. I don't think Calvin came up with the five points, BTW. God can and does allow us to be little causes. If not, the Bible makes no sense whatsoever. God...

Scripture evidence for this strange interpretation? Being objects of wrath makes no sense if we don't choose sin of our own will. If God chooses it for us, which is the logical conclusion of Calvinism, he's punishing people for what he did!

40For my Father's will is that everyone who looks to the Son and believes in him shall have eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day. 54Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day. If this is referring to the Eucharist, it...

The verses about Jesus being the bread of life are not about a sacrament. 40For my Father's will is that everyone who looks to the Son and believes in him shall have eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day. 54Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will...

This is the Catholic contradiction. They will literally say you can not be saved without certain works, and then their popes will act like anyone can be saved, even if they don't believe in Jesus.

Ok, but that passage isn't about eucharist at all.

At what point did the priest start talking in Latin at that supper?

Did Jesus say we have to have a full feast or did he say to eat the bread in remembrance?

You can not be that dense. 63 It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life. 64 But there are some of you that believe not. For Jesus knew from the beginning who they were that believed not, and who should...