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Oh, they have no problem with God decreeing (causing) those. Along with rape and children being molested.

Really? Just ridiculous. You really believe only Calvies are saved, don't you?

You know just because you think your understanding of scripture is truth doesn't make it so, correct?

The question itself is illogical. A better question would be why anyone would believe God wills everything that happens when he says he doesn't. When God talks in Job, he never gives an answer to how he interacts with the universe, probably because there's no way for the human mind to comprehend.

Nothing man glorying about doing what God tells us to do, submit to him. That's the opposite of doing something myself. What takes effort is resisting.

Then, as I said before, we are to do nothing and in fact, we are just automatons, playing our parts. If I sin, it's God sinning. If I do good, it's not my decision to do good, it's God doing it for me. In other words, nothing really matters, whatever will be will be.

Again, this does not say that everything that happens is by God's decree. It merely states that God will bring about his plan, regardless of what people do. The Calvinist view is like this: "Commenting on Isaiah 46:8-11, in his sermon, “The Sovereignty of God: ‘My Counsel Shall Stand, and I...

Oh the irony.. from the champion of personal attacks

And who ordained that nature, even the fall of man, according to Calvinism?

Lol, response to God doesn't deserve any glory. It's the opposite of doing anything yourself.

Knowing Christ requires a personal response. The salvation work is all his.

No arminian would disagree. Nothing irresistible about grace.

Nothing Calvinistic here. So God knew who would believe, not because they were irresistibly ordained to believe, but because he is God and knows who has prepared thier heart to receive him.

Depends on how it goes, and the actual context.

Yes, what God decides to do, he does. That doesn't come close to saying he ordained everything. That's man made doctrine.

Well in this case, all I need to do is less than normal, according to what we are told. Instead, I plan for the worse and expect the best. It's not the virus, it's the other impacts that are gonna cause lasting problems. But I trust a God who is bigger than all this. And it doesn't hurt that I...

Why? If you are irresistibly caused to come or passed by, why would you do anything? In that case, God does it all. I need not ask for anything.

I would like to see that conversation. I think you are twisting what actually happened.

It's the logical conclusion of everything happens because of God's decree. See the Westminster confession. If it all ultimately is God's doing, he is the only sinner.

Here's what I think: a place with out God has to be terrible, because without him, nothing good can exist. No love, no real companionship or beauty. Anything you find good here, even imperfectly good, will not be there. That's why it's terrible, but people who want to be God themselves will...