Where'd you get that from? It certainly wasn't the Bible.
In fact, the BIBLE shows us that Satan knows Scripture quite well.
Regardless, your argument is still moot. You're proclaiming certain groups to hell. Unless the Bible specifically speaks against it (IE, it's God's judgement), that's not your job.
Now tell me why anyone in this forum would want to partner with someone that feels they've taken on the position of God?
Additionally, your knowledge of Calvinistic teachings demonstrates your ignorance.
Calvinists are big on the sovereignty of God. That everything happens by and for his will.
Your assertion that Calvinists don't believe what they teach (that we are not submitted to God) is just ludicrous. What you say they don't do is exactly what they practice and teach!
You can believe God initiates the salvation process. Or you can believe you do it. It really doesn't matter which way you believe, what matters is if you're a follower of Christ or not.
You can be a follower of Christ and hold to either view. Your assertions that the way you believe the salvation process works is dependent upon salvation demonstrates an entire ignorance of the gospel message.
What a weird thing to say when you think Satan is not the great accuser: " for the accuser of our brethren is cast down, which accused them before our God day and night" (Rev. 12.10). He is the father of lies (John 8.44). He uses Scripture by twisting it in his accusations like a Calvinist.
See you are like Satan the great accuser: accusing of "taken on the position of God". You're not really accusing me but God for God says the Calvinist is not saved, for this is
not how to genuinely receive Christ by pridefully assuming you were irreistibly selected. You want a selfish salvation so you remain unsaved.
OSAS Arminians also believe everything is within God's providential care, but we do not worship the evil spirit as you do who manifests himself as an angel of light. We find nowhere in God's word the evil that you perpetrate of a god who would send children to Hell with no grace or opportunity to be saved and irresistibly impose salvation on others. What love is that? God does not have to be an evil tyrant.
God is clear that in order to be saved
you must genuinely repent and believe on Him to be regenerated. Since you admit you never did, you admit you are unsaved and going to Hell. In short, you worship a false Christ by accepting an evil spirit that came over you to allegedly regenerate you that made you repent and believe, but this would not be true repentance, since it is forced.
You entered into Satan's counterfeit salvation.
You debase it truly repenting to be regenerated, but the reality is if you don't truly receive Christ as He would have you, then He does not know you, nor do I.
Jesus told him, 'If you want to be perfect, go and sell all you have and give the money to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow me'" (
Matt. 19.21). Calvinists are too selfish to do this with their idol of Total depravity that says they can't, so they won't. He didn't say, I will let you know if you are saved or not by irresistibly regenerating you so that you can follow me, or when you get to Hell you will realize I passed over you. No. The selling is repentance, so you need to repent, believe, follow and receive. Thus, He said
"come, follow me." "Then answered Peter and said unto him, Behold, we have forsaken all, and followed thee" (
Matt. 19.27). Who followed thee? Peter and the disciples. God provides sufficient grace to be able to do so: "Jesus beheld them, and said unto them, With men this is impossible; but with God all things are possible" (
Matt. 19.26) which speaks of His sufficient grace to us all to have the choice.
"The times of ignorance God overlooked, but now he commands all men everywhere to repent" (
Acts 17.31).
"If ye be willing and obedient" (
Is. 1.19).
"Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out" (
Acts 3.19).
Salvation is promised to all ("Repent, and be baptized every one of you" [
Acts 2.38]), contingent upon individual faith ("Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved" [
Acts 16.31]).
None of these verses say this grace is irresistibly given to us. We have a choice.
It would be difficult to monitor the debates that will occur when forum members converge...which would be a likely conclusion. I know that you will consider it prayerfully brother!
Blessings!!!
We are not to be equally yoked with false Christians, and since christianityboard is mostly a Calvinist site of false Christians, we can't in good conscience be connected with you in any way.
If you were an OSAS Arminian site, then that would be different. Each forum could continue to operate as they normally do however much converging and cross-forum sharing there may be.
Who are the false Christians if not Calvinists, non-OSASers, amillennialists, preterists, postmills and bipartite adherents of the view the soul is the spirit?
Seek after the dividing of your spirit, soul and body,
http://www3.telus.net/trbrooks/SMCFP.htm