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Hmm..I'm not seeing it. He wrote in parables so to speak, about things that actually happened shortly after he wrote them. Yes the final battle and final judgement are future, I believe. Most of what he prophecied can be understood to have happened around 70 AD.

A better question is: Why would John be warning first-century Christians about something that would not happen for 2000 plus years? He was warning actual churches about events that would soon come to pass. How was the reader of that day supposed to understand who the Antichrist is if he is not...

Good song, like that album.

I've read the entire Bible, multiple times. So, you have changed your position on his sheep and those who can become sheep? You don't seem so sure that Jesus was saying what you claimed he said.

You misunderstand how God works. God gave us freewill. "God is good toward all who accept His goodness. And for those who reject His goodness, there’s nothing that even the Almighty God can do if He’s going to allow man his free will—and I believe in free will. Free will was given as a gift...

You just quoted a verse that contradicts your claims. Notice that Paul says God did this ( only because of thier initial disobedience) so that he could have mercy on all and yet you claim he only chooses to reveal himself to some. Yes there's a mystery about how God interacts with mankind. He...

You don't understand the implications of your theology, so let me enlighten you. If some are irresistibly saved and some are passed by, that is the preordained plan. So, if they became wicked, it was God's doing, not thier doing. So, what you have then, is God ordaining thier rebellion, then...

Lol, have you ever tried reading the Bible in context? Let's try not ripping one sentence out but reading what Solomon was saying in context: Commit to the Lord whatever you do, and he will establish your plans. 4 The Lord works out everything to its proper end— even the wicked for a...

No, you can't wiggle out of it that way. If Jesus saying to these Jews that they are not his sheep means they cannot become sheep, then anyone within the hearing of his voice at that time had to have been born destined to damnation. There's no other possibility in your scenario.

Basically, yes, because this predestining is only effective for those who are in Christ. 4 For he chose us in him before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in his sight. In love 5 he predestined us for adoption to sonship through Jesus Christ, in accordance with his pleasure...

Even I can know what I'm going to do once I plan to do it. If God already ordained all that was to happen, seeing the future doesn't require omniscience. If God decrees everything, that makes him the author of evil, which would not make him the God of scripture.

No, that's an easy one. God says right there that he regretting making men. 5 The Lord saw how great the wickedness of the human race had become on the earth, and that every inclination of the thoughts of the human heart was only evil all the time. 6 The Lord regretted that he had made human...

" Trust in God, but keep your powder dry."

Nobody is claiming they can. Nice strawman.

Did any of the people to who Jesus said "You are not my sheep.", which would be all the people he was talking to at that time, later become saved? If even one did, your whole theory is proven wrong. We know that Jesus was talking to the Jews and many of them did become converted at Pentecost...

I just explained to you that Foreknew can mean "Those God knew in times past." That would be the Old Testament saints. It's not even about what God knows before creation or whenever. It's about those who God had a relationship with. The reason we are told about it is to show God was faithful to...

Calvinism teaches that God doesn't even know the future unless he ordains it. So, yes, that would be God causing man's rebellion.

That's silly. If I can pass out a cure for cancer and someone doesn't want it, should I force it on them? Does is mean I wasted my effort if I offer it to someone who refuses to take it? You might as well just admit you don't believe men have any ability to make choices, despite the Bible...

The fatalists, which includes you. If someone is irresistibly chosen for salvation over someone else, that is fatalism.

It means Jesus is the only way to God.