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I already answered you, and you did not hear. Why would you hear the answer again? Would you also become a disciple of the risen One?

No, because faith and works are mutually exclusive according to a closer look at Ephesians 2:8-9. Therefore my faith in Jesus Christ is not a work.

As with a key that Jesus gives you to a door (Himself) that opens into a room called grace; even the key is a gift of grace, but is nothing compared to the grace you will receive once you use the key and enter in through the door and find yourself a partaker of real grace, as it is contained in...

No, I did not; for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks; and I believe that salvation is conditioned upon faith, and would not have said otherwise.

I already answered you on this and you did not hear the answer. Why do you want to hear the answer again? Do you also want to be a disciple of the risen One?

It is covered....for those who repent of their unbelief and believe, they are forgiven of their former unbelief. No, in this all men do not go to heaven; for not all men repent and believe.

Unbelief is a sin (like the unpardonable sin) that will keep a person out of heaven, since faith (the antonym of unbelief) is the means by which one enters in. It is paid for if it is repented of, if it is not repented of, it is not paid for. Christ paid for the sins of all men, which is...

Those scriptures do not adequately teach that. That is a good point. See John 17:20. Jhn 17:20, Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on me through their word; Therefore He died for those whom He foreknew would believe on Him. If someone does not believe on...

Please answer #297 and #298 by showing how I am mistaken in my assessment of Calvinism in those posts.

I have learned Calvinism by talking to its proponents and seeing it from the perspective of looking at it from the outside...which you have obviously never done. It is kind of like what happens here with @Jane_Doe22: we all know what Mormonism teaches, and yet she expects us to take her word...

That is fine for you...but if you believe that baptism has the power to save as I do...and if you ever end up in a situation where water is scarce...then I think that you would find that for the sake of the salvation of those to whom you are ministering, you would sprinkle them for that...

Then there is Unconditional Election. Does this not teach that we are elected to salvation based on the predetermined choice of God beforehand, and nothing else? That our calling on the name of the Lord does not have anything to do with it? If we called on the name of the Lord to be saved...

You can start with Limited Atonement. Does that not teach that Christ did not die for everyone, but only for a select few? If He did not die for you, then does that not mean that if you call on the name of the Lord, you will not be saved; because He didn't die for you? Even if you have an...

So then, I am humanly responsible and there is something that I can do to enter heaven? If I call on the name of the Lord, I shall be saved? That would indicate that I have a choice in the matter; and in Calvinism that takes the choice out of the hands of the Lord. Because in Calvinism, God...

Yes, Matthew, under inspiration of the Holy Spirit, quoted Hosea 11:1 out of its original context in Matthew 2:15; applying it to Jesus rather than to Israel as Hosea 11:1 does.

I verily do understand the teaching of Calvinism as well as its implications; and I think that you have not considered its implications. So, keep studying, keep reading on what is the teaching of Calvinism, and consider whether what I have said is indeed implied by what is taught. I have...

Every verse in the Bible stands on its own as a bastion of truth; and sometimes, taking it out of context is not necessarily the wrong thing to do. Consider how Matthew took Hosea 11:1 out of its original context in Matthew 2:15, saying that the son being spoken of is Jesus rather than what the...

The problem with Calvinism is that it takes away human responsibility. Because God chooses us for either heaven or for hell against our will (and within Calvinistic belief one must cut out of their Bibles such verses as Romans 10:9-13 which teach us that we can do something in order to obtain...

So the Lord chose to die for us but not them via His unconditional choice, i.e. we had not choice in the matter? And those who die lost, effectively could call on the name of the Lord and yet might not be saved because the Lord didn't choose them? So, even though it might have been their...