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My understanding is not nullified by the context, either. But I think that you intended for it to be so.

I have also set aside every Friday to pray for the government; since the exhortation to do so pops up in my personal reading in the epistles on that day (in 1 Timothy 2). Now I am not saying these things in any way to boast, except in Jesus Christ my Lord, who has shown me this pattern and...

I want to encourage you, brother, not to look to people for your spiritual nourishment. Spend as much time as you possibly can delving into and partaking of the word of the Lord as you find it in the Holy Bible. In my own personal study time, I read extensively during the week. Sunday: 1...

Most assuredly, condemnation is defeated if we hear the word of the Lord and believe on Him who sent Him, John 5:24; but condemnation is even more definitely defeated if we do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit, Romans 8:1. Jhn 5:24, Verily, verily, I say unto you, He...

The Lord will provide for him..and will also honour him for the stand he is taking. If he loses his job, the Lord will provide a better one, maybe even a pastorate.

We are building a building on the foundation of Jesus Christ. What we build will be revealed by fire as to what sort it is. Gold, silver, precious gems, wood, hay, stubble. I think that seeking things above means to work the work of the ministry here on the earth; seeking to edify people in...

Psa 31:22, For I said in my haste, I am cut off from before thine eyes: nevertheless thou heardest the voice of my supplications when I cried unto thee. Jhn 6:37, All that the Father giveth me shall come to me; and him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out. Luk 1:37, For with God...

The Flawed Reasoning Of Total Depravity

So, you believe that what a verse is actually saying can be nullified by the context? If so, then we hold to a different Bible hermeneutic. If the scripture seems to contradict itself, then there is a reconciliation of understanding that is there, that the Lord would have us to seek to understand.

The reality is that you don't have any answer to what we are saying; and therefore you do not have any valid response.

It seems to me that the Calvinists don't have an answer for the most recent arguments; so they are resorting to personal attack. i.e. "your carnal philosophy".

The Bible indeed teaches that we did something to receive salvation: we called upon the name of the Lord and were saved, Romans 10:13.

And Calvinism is supposed to be the doctrine that secures the helmet of salvation on your head; it is supposed to be the doctrine of "eternal security". I find that it in all reality does the opposite. To every Calvinist I ask the question, what makes you so special, that you were chosen and...

It seems to me that the implication behind Calvinistic teaching is that if I accept Jesus Christ as my Lord and Saviour, there is the possibility that I am not saved; because it may be that the Lord did not choose me from before the foundations of the world. And also, that if I do not receive...

Then you are preaching to the choir. All of us have faith, whom you are trying to convince of your pov. You should be going and evangelizing people who are truly lost (those who do not have faith).

Faith that is a fruit of the Holy Spirit would not save either; since salvation would already be there in the person's life before faith came: since they have the Holy Spirit for no apparent reason apart from faith.

I do indeed worship the Christ that is testified to in the Holy Bible; and therefore the Christ which is worshiped by His true church. Definitely the same Christ as who Paul the apostle worshiped.

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