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301 | Why won't Calvinists answer directly??? | Job 38:1 | Radioman | 972 | ||
PART ONE. It is not my purpose to sound unkind or to "feel" superior to others. But, I would like to make a few comments in answer to your previous questions on election). . . . To begin with, you are trying to disprove a doctrine -- election -- of which you have no knowledge or understanding. What attorney, professor or debater ever successfully disproved something of which he had absolutely no knowledge? An effective opponent of an idea would need to know all the main points and details of that idea before he could persuade others that the idea was false. It is obvious to me that all the shrill anti-election people are clueless as to what election is and when, where and how the Bible speaks of the elect or election. . . . By the way, branding all election as Calvinism is a serious error. There is more than one interpretation of the Bible doctrine of election. So why label as Calvinists everyone who believes in the Bible doctrine of election? Also, to refer to Calvinists as "the elect" or to the elect as "Calvinists" is absurd. Election and people spoken of as the elect exist, according to the Bible, whether you and I believe or don't believe in Calvinism and regardless of how you define election. . . . And why use the words Calvinism and Calvinist when replying to a posting, when that posting never once mentions Calvinism or Calvinist. If one is not even familliar with the terminology of that which he is debating, he will never convince anyone of anything. I myself wrote two lengthy answers defining and defending election, yet I never once mentioned the word Calvinism. . . . To set the record straight: 1) the word "freewill" is used 22 times in the NIV Bible. In every single reference the adjective freewill is used to modify the noun "offering(s)." So how does the Bible's use of the word freewill support the idea that the doctrine of election is false? . . . 2) The dictionary defines the adjective "elect" as "chosen" or "carefully selected". So elect and chosen clearly mean the same thing. You say "only a small portion (of the Bible) can be used to justify "election". For your information, while "freewill" occurs in the Bible (NIV) only 22 times and only in connection with the word "offering(s)", the word "elect" appears 11 times; "election" 3 times; "choose" (which means the same thing as "elect") appears 66 times; "chose" 45 times; and "chosen" 125 times. This gives us a total of 250 occurences of the words "elect", "election" or their equivalents choose, chose and chosen, but only 22 occurences of the word freewill, and then only in connection with offerings. . . . You refer to "when something in the Bible doesn't fit with your interpretation." If you were familiar, not with Calvinism, but with the BIBLE DOCTRINE of election, you would know that: there isn't one verse in the Bible which -- when properly translated and understood in the context and in relation to all other verses dealing with the same subject -- not one word that contradicts the Bible's teaching on the subject of election. The only reason I brought up the idea that many of the people who cannot accept election are the same people who don't grasp the concept of it is this: it is true. Nonbelievers in election invariably are people who can neither define nor explain what it is that they are opposed to. It is apparent from the comments written by opponents of election that these people have not read the answers supporting election. They've neither read the answers, looked up the Scriptures cited, nor given the other side a fair hearing. |
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302 | Questions for my Calvinists friends. | Job 38:1 | Radioman | 961 | ||
Just for a moment, forget Calvinism. Many people have a problem accepting the Bible doctrine of election because they do not understand it -- every last little ramification and detail of it. You ask "Why? . . . Why? . . . Why?" To those who must know the WHY of a thing before they can accept or believe it, often the only answer they will get is the one Job was given. . . . Job 38:1 (NASB) Then the LORD answered Job out of the whirlwind and said, 2 "Who is this that darkens counsel By words without knowledge? 3 "Now gird up your loins like a man, And I will ask you, and you instruct Me! 4 "Where were you when I laid the foundation of the earth? Tell Me, if you have understanding, 5 Who set its measurements? Since you know. Or who stretched the line on it? 6 "On what were its bases sunk? Or who laid its cornerstone? . . . My point? Isa 55:8 "For My thoughts are not your thoughts, Nor are your ways My ways," declares the LORD. |
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303 | Who are the seven spirits... | Rev 1:4 | Radioman | 935 | ||
Isa. 11:2 (NASB) The Spirit of the LORD will rest on Him, The spirit of wisdom and understanding, The spirit of counsel and strength, The spirit of knowledge and the fear of the LORD. . . . “the seven Spirits. There are two possible meanings: 1) a reference to Isaiah’s prophecy concerning the 7-fold ministry of the Holy Spirit (Is 11:2); or . . . “2) more likely, it is a reference to the lampstand with 7 lamps (a menorah) in Zechariah (Zech 3:9)--also a description of the Holy Spirit." In either case, 7 is the number of completeness, so John” in Rev 1:4 “is identifying the fullness of the Holy Spirit.” (p. 1992, John MacArthur, MacArthur Study Bible, Nashville: Word, 1997) In many Bibles the center column references for Rev 1:4 will include references to Isa 11:2 and Zech 3:9. Looking up parallel or related Scriptures in a center column reference Bible will help answer many Bible questions one may have. The Bible is its own best interpreter. In other words, to look up related Scripture is to compare Scripture with Scripure, a very sound practice in interpreting the Bible. |
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304 | Any consequences for the bad? | 2 Cor 5:10 | Radioman | 927 | ||
. . . Slillis20 indeed gave a good answer. As to your question, "is there any consequence for the bad that is burned up?" -- the "judgment seat" metaphorically refers to the place where the Lord will sit to evaluate believers' lives for the purpose of giving them eternal rewards. The consequences of "the bad that is burned up" would, therefore, be loss of rewards. This judgment has nothing to do with sins, since their judgment took place at the cross. (Eph 1:7). . . . "The things done in the body" are actions which happened during the believer's time of earthly ministry. "Whether good or bad." These Greek terms do not refer to moral good and moral evil. Rather, Paul was comparing worthwhile, eternlly valuable activities with useless ones. Paul here was not condemning the enjoyment of certain wholesome, earthly things. . . . (See 1 Cor 5:10, John MacArthur, MacArthur Study Bible, Nashville: Word, 1997. See also the online commentaries for further study of 1 Cor 5:10.) |
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305 | NOAH"S CURSED SON | Genesis | Radioman | 898 | ||
"Moses had made it clear that children were NOT punished for the sins of their parents (Deut 24:16; see Ezek 18:19-32), but children would feel the impact of breaches of God's law by their parents' generation as a natural consequence of its disobedience, its hatred of God. Children reared in such an environment would imbibe and then practice similar idolatry, thus themselves expresing hateful disobedience. The difference in consequence served as both a warning and a motivation. The effect of a disobedient generation was to plant wickedness so deeply that it took several generations to reverse." (MacArthur Study Bible, p. 124) | ||||||
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