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If you believe you're saved. If you believe you're born again. Saved could be discussed...what are we saved from? Born again is a condition...our spirit is joined with God's spirit. Salvation has the word saved in it. We are saved...we are born again, as Jesus commanded in John 3:5 YOU MUST BE...

We're having a discussion on the reformed faith here. If you think I'm overpowering because of my posts, you're free not to reply to them. I'd speak to women exactly the same way I'm speaking to the men here. Why bring up my sex? Does my being a woman preclude me from knowing any theology? Am I...

Your last paragraph is most interesting since, at the start of the thread, you stated that if I wanted to argue re calvinism, I would stand alone. Aren't you at all interested in liberating others that are caught up in chains and bondage? There are landmines and ditches everywhere but you're...

Saved and born again is the same thing Ritajanice. There's no difference between the two terms.

I don't see any women on this thread. I have no comment other than that.

Unbelievable statements. If something is biblical, you MUST agree with it.... not the many small nuances we're presented with.... BUT DO YOU THINK CALVINISM IS A NUANCE??!! Are JWs right? Are Mormons right? Do you agree with them too? You agree with everything? HE WHO BELIEVES IN EVERYTHING...

Already replied to this and analogies, when it comes to God/spiritual, don't work very well. Eventually, the father must let the kids go to do what they want to do. No. We don't have to check all the 5 boxes. Any one of those boxes is wrong. Limited Atonement is so wrong that even some...

John 1:12 is a very misunderstood verse and should not be used by Calvinists for support. It doesn't mean at all what they say it means. This is true for all verses that they use for the simple reason that Calvinism cannot be supported scripturally. Calvinists bring their doctrine to the...

I'm not here to discuss what Matt Slick believes. I'm not sure what your position is and really, that's all I'm interested in. Your belief and scriptural support for your belief. The problem of theodicy is a great one for Christianity, but that's not what this thread is about. Also, I'm not...

Of course. It's UNCONDITIONAL ELECTION that changes everything. All christians believe in CONDITIONAL ELECTION.

The above is confusing me. You're not making your position clear so it's difficult to reply to it. Have to leave for a while... Later...

Everything can't be a mystery Bruce. I don't have to be a proud, arrogant human in order to understand what God wants from me.

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I leave you to discuss this with the other member, but I just want to say that it's pretty clear to me that 2 Peter 3:9 is referring to desire.

But you didn't reply to Calvin's statement about having the rug pulled from under some... How could a reformed person be sure he is saved ? It seems to me he won't be until the end comes. Exactly the same as for every other Christian, BTW.

Why would God desire repentance from us if He's going to decide if we're saved or not? Why require repentance from a creature that is UNABLE to repent (according to the reformed) due to TOTAL depravity?

How can there be two biblical truths? There can only be one truth. Either God predestinated EVERYTHING including sin, As some reformed do accept.... JOHN PIPER, DOUGLAS WILSON or God did NOT predestinate everything. I asked how you would reconcile the two "truths"... you haven't done that...

You're a reformed universalist. Interesting. Mankind is not sovereign. We don't rule...God rules. God is the ruler... HOW He rules is what we're discussing here. Does He leave any decisions to us at all? Or do we just do every day what He has already predestinated us to do from the beginning...

Is there a difference between God ALLOWING something and God decreeing something?

And herein is the problem SS. You stated that purgatory COULD BE biblical because I stated some verses from the bible. So I could pretty much state anything from the bible.... You've come to have your beliefs based on the bible. Does this make them Chrsitian doctrine? No. Christianity is...