Search results

That doesn't answer the content of Titus 2:11. You've engaged in dodging the issue. God's prevenient grace is amazing grace and makes salvation available to all. The NT tells us why people reject evidence for God and salvation: 'The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the...

prism, Is ALL Scripture God-breathed (2 Tim 3:16-17 NIV) or only the NT when it comes to teaching on how we respond to God? In fact when Paul wrote to Timothy, the only Scripture available to them was the OT. By the way, citing a string of Scriptures without exposition is useless in explaining...

You build strawman after strawman fallacies to defend your unbiblical system.

atp, You are correct, except that the full content of my 480pp PhD dissertation is online at: Crossan and the resurrection of Jesus : rethinking presuppositions, methods and models. This dissertation was through the University of Pretoria, South Africa, which uses the dissertation-only...

I don't understand what you're saying.

atp, How does that statement fit with Titus 2:11 (ESV), 11 For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation for all people, 12 training us to renounce ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright, and godly lives in the present age, 13 waiting for our blessed...

prism, Joshua 24 does not agree with that perspective: 14 ‘Now fear the Lord and serve him with all faithfulness. Throw away the gods your ancestors worshipped beyond the River Euphrates and in Egypt, and serve the Lord. 15 But if serving the Lord seems undesirable to you, then choose for...

Enoch, Don't expect to get anywhere with this approach as many Calvinists redefine 'the world' to mean 'all kinds of people' (see #27 above). Oz

Mjh, What a good Calvinist you are.:rolleyes: You have done what I expected, make the text in context say what it does not say. You don't like the biblical idea that Jesus died for the whole world so you resort to make 'all' = 'all KINDS of people'. In Australia, we call that bunkum, nonsense...

Mjh, The Calvinistic position you advocate is contrary to Scripture which states the God provides salvation and people can choose to accept or reject it. How so? 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...

Enoch, I don't find this kind of statement helpful, 'Calvinism DISTORTS both the sinfulness of man and the sovereignty of God', because you don't give sources for your statement. If you don't provide evidence of who 'distorts' these doctrines, you are making assertions with no documentation. oz

Enoch, I think you have overstated the case with your hyperbole, 'Calvinism is NOT Bible truth'. You know I'm not a Calvinist but there is some splendid teaching about the doctrine of God and other doctrines in the writings of Calvinism, including those of John Calvin. I have learned much from...

This is what I stated at the end of #6: 19 But Joshua said to the people, “You are not able to serve the Lord, for he is a holy God. He is a jealous God; he will not forgive your transgressions or your sins. 20 If you forsake the Lord and serve foreign gods, then he will turn and do you harm...

at, I do not believe in universalism, i.e all people will be saved. I do not of my own initiative advocate 'all people wihout exception are drawn'. That's the teaching of Jesus in John 12:32 (NIV), 'And I, when I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all people to myself.’ Your problem...

Where did I state that?

This is unbiblical teaching. Joshua 24:14-22 (ESV) confirms it: 14 “Now therefore fear the Lord and serve him in sincerity and in faithfulness. Put away the gods that your fathers served beyond the River and in Egypt, and serve the Lord. 15 And if it is evil in your eyes to serve the Lord...

at, How are people 'drawn' to Christ? How many are 'drawn'? Is a genuine choice involved or is it a forced election to salvation? Oz

That's not what the theological doctrine of annihilation, as taught by the SDAs, JWs, Christadelphians, and others, means. For them, annihilation of unbelievers means they won't experience an eternity of suffering in Hades or Gehenna. Instead, their conscious life will be zapped after death. As...

You seem to diminish the attribute of the wrath of God. He is the God of justice and his justice is not determined by your or my spin.

From where did you gain that information? Where was Jesus between his death and resurrection? Are you calling Jesus a liar for telling the thief on the cross, "Truly I tell you, today you will be with me in paradise" (Lk 23:43 NIV). On the very day of the death of Jesus and the thief, both of...