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  1. atpollard

    Total Inability: Genesis 1-4

    Your view is wrong.
  2. atpollard

    Total Inability: Genesis 1-4

    The same people that insist on telling me that "every person without exception" was drawn in John 3, refuse to touch the fact that in John 6:44 everyone drawn comes to Jesus and is raised to eternal life at the last day. I know it does not say "to eternal life" in John 6:44 but what is the...
  3. atpollard

    Total Inability: Genesis 1-4

    You know my answer (Rev 5:9) and reject it, so How does Titus 2:11 fit with John 6:44 and Romans 8:29-30 and Romans 9:21? [John 6:44 NASB] 44 "No one can come to Me unless the Father who sent Me draws him; and I will raise him up on the last day. [Rom 8:29-30 NASB] 29 For those whom He...
  4. atpollard

    Total Inability: Genesis 1-4

    Technically, an appeal to authority fallacy since credentials cannot be verified on the internet ... ... I am really the Apostle John. I came back just like Jesus promised and the Mormons teach. ;) [not really, just making a point]
  5. atpollard

    Total Inability: Genesis 1-4

    Untrue. Stop wasting my time if you have nothing to say but slander and lies.
  6. atpollard

    Total Inability: Genesis 1-4

    What part of Calvinism is HERETICAL? You are making serious false accusations of doctrines that have been well grounded in scripture. Disagreeing with an interpreattion does not make it heretical. Here, I will give you a head start ... Total Depravity - Man is completely touched/affected by...
  7. atpollard

    Total Inability: Genesis 1-4

    Respectfully, I have presented an awful lot of scriptural support and NONE of it has been refuted by exegesis. Nobody has even attempted to argue that John 6:44 ("No one can come to Me unless the Father who sent Me draws him; and I will raise him up on the last day.") does not mean ... no one...
  8. atpollard

    All the ELECT please stand up

    Just for the sake of completeness, here are the 5 points of Calvinism (the famous TULIP) from CARM: Total Depravity - Man is completely touched/affected by sin in all that he is (in nature he is completely fallen), but is not as bad as he could be (in action, i.e., not all murder, etc.)...
  9. atpollard

    All the ELECT please stand up

    John Wesley (1703-1791) came along and shook up Arminianism with some new ideas on Grace that became known as Wesleyan Arminianism and started the Holiness Movement and the Methodist Church and led to the Church of God. So if this sounds better to you than Classic Arminianism, then you can call...
  10. atpollard

    All the ELECT please stand up

    First, people make WAY too big a deal about Calvinism vs Arminianism. It is fun to try and understand from scripture whether people are capable of making the first move or if God has to make the first move, but nobody ever lost salvation over misunderstanding how God does things. Salvation is...
  11. atpollard

    All the ELECT please stand up

    I am saying that "whosoever will" is John 1 [6] There was a man sent from God, whose name was John. [7] The same came for a witness, to bear witness of the Light, that all men through him might believe. [8] He was not that Light, but was sent to bear witness of that Light. [9] That was the true...
  12. atpollard

    Total Inability: Genesis 1-4

    Where does scripture actually teach any of that (except the part about death coming to all, that part I am familiar with). Too many people are asking me to reject the Scriptures that God wrote and illuminated to me and accept their personal opinions instead. How can I trust you and call the...
  13. atpollard

    Total Inability: Genesis 1-4

    False or Horribly unfair? If salvation were up to a vote, I would vote for Libertarian Free will followed by annihilation of the damned. Unfortunately, God has not asked for my vote or input, so I am stuck with “what does scripture actually say”. If you think that I have misinterpreted any...
  14. atpollard

    Total Inability: Genesis 1-4

    John 3:36 (NIV): 'Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life, but whoever rejects the Son will not see life, for God’s wrath remains on them'. This we agree on, scripture does say this. That is one interpretation, but it is not the only interpretation. For example the verse is no less...
  15. atpollard

    Total Inability: Genesis 1-4

    You must have missed the invitation to actually support your vocal opinions with some proof (as in scripture and exegesis), So let me repeat it for you ... Man always exercises his free will to choose to reject God. See Romans 1 for a discussion on this topic. God causes all things to work...
  16. atpollard

    Total Inability: Genesis 1-4

    It does not answer a lot of things ... Do infants go to heaven or hell if they die? Is the millennial reign in Revelation literal of symbolic? Is the scriptural stronger case for Credobaptism or the Early Church Father stronger case for Paedobaptism what Jesus intended? What if we discuss what...
  17. atpollard

    Total Inability: Genesis 1-4

    At the top of post #6, you quoted a single statement from me ... At the bottom of post #6 you stated ... I claimed that you stated “TOTAL INABILITY” [my statement] was indeed “confirmed by the totality of Scripture” [your claim about my ‘false theology’ promoted with ‘my statement’]. I...
  18. atpollard

    Total Inability: Genesis 1-4

    Nobody ever does, but at the same time they also offer no explanation for the statement in John 6:44 that the “drawn” by the Father are also “raised” by the Son ... while claiming “every individual without exception” is drawn and rejecting “some people from every tribe, tongue and nation” are drawn.
  19. atpollard

    All the ELECT please stand up

    So in other words, they do not really hide from God and refuse to go near God like John 3:20 says, they just decide to go to God. Is that what you are saying?
  20. atpollard

    All the ELECT please stand up

    John 3:20 says that all who sin hide from God and refuse to go near God. If everyone sins then how does anyone GET TO GOD to receive the free gift?