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I cannot say for certain whether my “non-response” was intentional or your question was simply overlooked in a flurry of posts. With 300 posts, it seems unlikely that I will locate the posts to which you are referring unaided. If you can offer a simple post #, I will promise to respond to...

Your ignorance of the reformation is LIMITLESS! “man-made dogma, incense, candles and rituals” is what the Reformers opposed about Roman Catholicism and was the reason they translated the Bible into the common language so people could read it for themselves. I shake your dust off my sandals and...

You are working too hard at this. The logic is far simpler: GOD DOES NOT TRY, GOD DOES. If God chose to save all men, then all men would be saved … God does not try and fail. Since some men are not saved (MOST, by Jesus’ reckoning), then God must not have saved them (or they WOULD be saved)...

That is why it is important to read the verses that come BEFORE and AFTER a verse as well as just the one verse. John wrote a letter, not a fortune cookie. With context comes understanding. Plucked from context, all we ever get is bad semi-Pelagianism or an anti-Doctrines of Grace strawman...

That is probably best … for them. (2 Corinthians 6:14-17)

Church TRADITION placed increased importance on the SACRAMENTS (actions required for salvation) rather than ORDINANCES (actions commanded because of salvation) … like Baptism and the Eucharist, etc. Like so much of the Christian walk, it comes back to “keep FIRST things, FIRST.”

If he starts out telling lies, what are the odds that he will suddenly start speaking truth? “Beware of the false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly are ravenous wolves. You will know them by their fruits. Grapes are not gathered from thorn bushes nor figs from...

“Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places, even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him.” - Ephesians 1 Sola Gratia, the idea that...

As God hath appointed the elect unto glory, so hath He, by the eternal and most free purpose of His will, foreordained all the means thereunto. Wherefore, they who are elected … are effectually called unto faith in Christ by His Spirit working in due season, are justified, adopted, sanctified...

Finally, as often as God in Scripture is said or seems to do something evil, it is not thereby said that man does not do evil, but that God permits it and does not prevent it, according to his just judgment, who could prevent it if he wished, or because he turns man’s evil into good … St...

We believe that all the posterity of Adam, being thus fallen into perdition and ruin by the sin of our first parents, God then did manifest himself such as he is; that is to say, MERCIFUL AND JUST: MERCIFUL, since he delivers and preserves from this perdition all whom he, in his eternal and...

We believe that from this corruption and general condemnation in which all men are plunged, God, according to his eternal and immutable counsel, calleth those whom he hath chosen by his goodness and mercy alone in our Lord Jesus Christ, without consideration of their works, to display in them...

Our salvation is from God, but from ourselves there is nothing but sin and damnation. (The Reformed Confession: 1536, Art. 9)

Predestination: “When men hear us say that God works both good and evil in us, and that we are subject to God’s working by mere passive necessity, they seem to imagine a man who is in himself good, and not evil, having an evil work wrought in him by God; for they do not sufficiently bear in mind...

I cannot take credit for it … Jesus made a whole big deal about it in John 10, so who was I to tell God that He was wrong. I am just not a mature an UBER CHRISTIAN as some that can correct the Godpels of Jesus with a verse plucked from Deuteronomy. So why don’t YOU tell Him. :rolleyes:

“Reformed Theology, also known as Calvinism, is the doctrinal basis of a movement within Protestant Christianity, and traces its origin to the protestant reformer John Calvin (1509- 1564).” Right out of the gate, he has his facts wrong. First, the reformation started almost a CENTURY before...

Or He means … “Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of My Father who is in heaven will enter. Many will say to Me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in Your name, and in Your name cast out demons, and in Your name...

Reformed theologians of centuries past have all just risen from their graves to smack themselves on the face and beat their head against a wall … THAT is how backwards you just presented the doctrine of Predestination.

Yup. All the Father DRAWS will believe. All the Father GIVES to the Son will believe (and do). Those that are “NOT HIS SHEEP” do not believe … they are not His sheep, because the Father did not give them to Him. They do not believe because they cannot … things of the spirit are foolishness...

No PERSON can explain WHY (the personal inner motive) that GOD said or did something. You are asking someone to stick his hand up God's back and make God a puppet that we can speak what comes out of God's mouth (rather than the other way around). God tells people what to say and men can merely...