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Um... "continue living their lives physically"...? Okay that's a really odd way to put it, but okay, yes... Of course they do. Why do you keep trying to pin this on me? Or Calvinists in general? Even though I keep telling you I and Calvinists in general do think everyone has the opportunity...

Apologies, but this is a ridiculous statement. Okay, right... <chuckles> ...but I can decide for myself many things, including if someone is thinking rationally and/or objectively or not, based on what he or she has said, and that's what I have done here... <chuckles> As evidenced by the fact...

Sigh... Good... agreed... (of course)... Again, it depends on the sense in which you mean 'cannot.' You may or may not "LOL" again, but 'cannot' can be understood in two very different senses... a) 'cannot' in the wooden sense of being mentally and/or physically incapable of something, or...

In the context of John 20, but again, Jesus was giving them for a time His power for a time to begin the spreading of the Gospel to all nations. This was not their salvific experience; that resulted in their repentance and belief, just as it does for all Christians. Everyone has this...

Right, my interpretation, but putting your own "slant" on it... and yes, not the scriptures themselves. Yes, that's absolutely obvious. <chuckles> No, I don't say that. Not "in order to repent and believe." That's how you want to paint it (over and over again), but I do not say those...

No. You think about it from your own... place. Not so. By "using your brain," I meant to... well, turn off your own personal biases and predispositions. Not even close to calling names. Okay, but who cares? But he can do what he wants, can he not? You get angry and indignant when posters...

Right, but in a certain sense, we are all tares from birth. The natural human condition from birth ~ as a result of the Fall ~ is that we are at enmity with God. Grace and peace to you, claninja.

Even though I quoted those Scriptures verbatim. Interesting. Again: "I will give them one heart, and a new spirit I will put within them. I will remove the heart of stone from their flesh and give them a heart of flesh, that they may walk in my statutes and keep my rules and obey them. And...

Good question. I say ~ in the context of the parable of the wheat and the tares ~ just as tares cannot/will not become wheat, so wheat cannot/will not become tares. Which is what you just said, which makes me wonder why you then asked the question you asked. And about the mass falling away, I...

Point taken, but riling him up wasn't my intention. And my only point to him and you (and anyone else in making the comment I made) was more about actually thinking about what I said rationally and objectively. Now, did I say it in an overly pointed, non-fruit-of-the-Spirit way? Yes, so I...

Yeah, so I said, "if you would start actually using your brain, that would be awesome" And somehow that's equivalent to and deserving of being called "incredibly dishonest" (so a liar, Post 581), "holier than thou" (Post 583), "evil" (Post 585), "dummy" (Post 589)... (not an exhaustive...

In the sense that God made some for noble use and others for common use, I do, too. Yes, He only chose some to be conformed to the image of His son before the foundation of the world (they are the wheat) and others He did not (they are the tares). It was that way from before the foundation of...

Hm. Well you do it in this very post. Your whole post is saturated with it: No. <smile> No. <smile> No. <smile> No. <smile> No. <smile> But He did hate Esau, as He Himself stated. And Esau is representative there of a whole lot of people. So we have to come to grips with that...

Wrongly, yes. No, that’s not it…. LOL! That’s a strange statement to make, considering that for the last several posts you’ve state the exact opposite of what Calvinists believe about this or that and then have clarified what you think is correct, and it’s right along the lines of what...

Such lack of understanding and ignorance. Astounding, really... astonishing. But yes, very Arminian. Grace and peace to you.

Well, he is a literal single human being... And yes, he represented himself, certainly, but as Paul says in Romans 5:12, "...sin came into the world through one man, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men because all sinned." Well okay, but why even do that, because neither of...

Kind of both, really... to just see how long I can keep you going... how many is this now? LOL! ... and trying to get you to quit making a fool of yourself. But so it goes... and goes and goes and goes... <smile> Well, that you're going to keep trying to paint it that way, but still every...

LOL! Knew you couldn't resist... <smile> Yeah, not. <smile> Nope. Neither did John Calvin... Yes, I certainly can't elect myself, as Arminians believe. Adrian Rogers... you know him? I mean, he died not too long ago, but a radio preacher... Love Worth Finding Ministries... very Arminian...

I've asked this question before, @Davy, but I'll ask it again: Who is the true Jew of God? Who is God's Israel? Before you answer, you might want to read again what Paul says in: Romans 2:28-29 ~ "no one is a Jew who is merely one outwardly, nor is circumcision outward and physical. But a...