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301 | Are we all descendants of Adam and Eve? | Genesis | Sir Pent | 62187 | ||
Personal Note ................................. Dear John, It has been a while. Are you still planning on continuing our discussion about sovereignity. If so I would appreciate if you could respond to post number 61842. |
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302 | Cremation and the Bible | 1 Cor 15:42 | Sir Pent | 61891 | ||
Please do a quick search .............................. Dear MYR, This question has been answered in the past. Do a search (top right) for number 9934. |
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303 | was archangel michael considered Hisson | John 3:16 | Sir Pent | 61879 | ||
No. Jesus is God's ONLY BEGOTTEN SON. Out of curiosity, why do you keep asking questions about the archangel Michael. | ||||||
304 | Is God in absolut contrl over all things | Acts 4:24 | Sir Pent | 61867 | ||
Personal Note ...................................... Dear John, Sounds like a good mission. There are obviously limitations to any conversation that can only be carried out with the written word. Lacking tone of voice, body language, facial expression, etc. can often make interpretation difficult. It is therefore very important that we all dilligently try to "assertain the intended meaning" of posts before responding. You make a great point. ................................................ P.S. Having started on this forum over a year ago, I am glad that I can say, "to the best of my knowledge I have never been in a hot debate with anyone here". |
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305 | Physical sports contests? | Col 3:17 | Sir Pent | 61865 | ||
Personal Note ....................................... Dear Cyclist, I'm glad that it was helpful. We haven't had a lot of interaction on the forum in the past, but I look foward to sharing future threads together. |
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306 | Is Archangel Michael and Jesus the same | 1 Thess 4:16 | Sir Pent | 61857 | ||
No. Archangel Michael and Jesus are different beings. | ||||||
307 | Physical sports contests? | Col 3:17 | Sir Pent | 61852 | ||
A Suggestion .............................. Dear Cyclist, I believe that it is possible for a person to use even their physical strength to bring glory to God. You are not alone as a Christian body builder. You might want to check out the website: www.team-impact.com |
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308 | Reconcile means what? | Col 1:20 | Sir Pent | 61843 | ||
Welcome to the forum, Nita .............................. The definition of "reconcile" is "to make friendly again, settle". I believe that due to the fall of mankind into sin both through Adam and in our own lives, we harm the relationship that we could have with God. This hurts Him, and so God has provided a way for this relationship to be reconnected. The way that this is accomplished is through Jesus death on the cross to take away our sins. When we accept God's forgiveness, we are once again able to "be friends" with God since the problems that got in the way are "settled". |
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309 | Is God in absolut contrl over all things | Acts 4:24 | Sir Pent | 61842 | ||
I'm still waiting for your response ...................... Dear John, What are your thoughts on the rest of this post? ............................................ Arminians, on the other hand, interpret those same verses differently. The believe that God has the ability to absolutely control the universe, but that He chooses not to excersize that ability at all times. Instead, they believe that God has created humans in such a way that they have both the FREEDOM and ABILITY to choose whether to love God or not. However, since God is simply choosing not to excersize His ability to determine every choice, they believe that God is still supremely powerful and sovereign. ............................................... The interesting thing is that both perspectives claim that God is sovereign. Arminians generally understand that the Calvinist perspective, even if they disagree with it, leads to a belief in a soverign God. However, Calvinists generally are under the impression that Arminian perspective, even if they disagree with it, DOES NOT lead to a belief in a sovereign God. I propose that this impression is wrong, and I am asking that someone to explain, using scripture and reason, why Calvinists believe that. Not why they believe Arminianism is wrong, but why they believe that it is impossible for God to be sovereign in that perspective. |
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310 | Is God in absolut contrl over all things | Acts 4:24 | Sir Pent | 61838 | ||
Clarification ...................................... Dear John, You took one sentance from my post out of the context that it was in and then claimed that its meaning was unclear. Let's put it back in context and look at it. ...................................... I said, "You want to discuss specific scripture verses to prove that Calvinism is correct. I’m not interested. You have already done that with other people on this forum, and I don’t seek redundancy. The purpose of this thread is solely to discuss whether it is possible for a person with an Arminian perspective to believe in a sovereign God." ...................................... I believe that when read in context it is obvious that I my "prohibition" as you call it was very specific. I was not prohibiting all scripture from being used. Instead I was trying to maintain the focus of this thread by avoiding scriptures that merely support Calvinism in general (which would have been redundant with other threads that do that very thing). ...................................... I think that in context, my meaning was clear. However, it appears that JRdoc did misunderstand what I said, becuase he referred to me in a different thread as trying to prohibit from posting anything on this forum at all. Therefore, I did reply to him (in that thread) to clear up any misunderstanding that might have been there. |
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311 | Is God in absolut contrl over all things | Acts 4:24 | Sir Pent | 61747 | ||
Definition of Calvinist perspective ..................... Dear John, Very well, for subsequent posts, I'll try to use the following definition for your perspective: .......................................... “God unchangeably ordains everything that comes to pass. Yet neither is God the author of sin, nor is the will of the humans forced. Nor is the possibility of indirect causes of actions removed, but rather established.” .......................................... So what are your thoughts on the rest of post 61691? |
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312 | Is God in absolut contrl over all things | Acts 4:24 | Sir Pent | 61738 | ||
Simplification of Calvinist statement ..................................... Dear John, I’m fine with using the official statement, but would it be OK if I simplify it slightly for understanding sake. The original statement you gave was: “God from all eternity, did, by the most wise and holy counsel of His own will, freely, and unchangeably ordain whatsoever comes to pass;[1) yet so, as thereby neither is God the author of sin,[2] nor is violence offered to the will of the creatures; nor is the liberty or contingency of second causes taken away, but rather established.[3] “ ..................................... I propose the following simplification: ..................................... “God unchangeably ordains everything that comes to pass. Yet neither is God the author of sin, nor is the will of the humans removed. Nor is the possibility of indirect causes of actions removed, but rather established.” ..................................... I have tried to change as little as possible while retaining the meaning and increasing the likelihood of understanding. Is this alright? ..................................... I read all your “proof texts”, and understand that you could easily come to the conclusion that you do based upon them. I am looking forward to your response to the rest of my previous post. |
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313 | Love our enemies or attack them? | Matt 5:43 | Sir Pent | 61728 | ||
Welcome to the forum Donkid ...................... You ask a very difficult question, which gets into the issue of whether it is right for Christians to kill people today. There was, in my opinion, a very good thread discussing this topic a while back. Please do a quick search (top right) for the number 16191 to jump to a post that I made in that thread. To be fair, a minority of the pillars of this forum agree with my perspective on this issue, so I would read the whole thread. |
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314 | Is God in absolut contrl over all things | Acts 4:24 | Sir Pent | 61691 | ||
Clarification ............................................... Dear John, It appears that our thread has been restricted and will no longer appear on the general webpage. I suppose that is good if we are unable to come to consensus as everyone seems to believe, however, I think it would be a shame if we actually were able to resolve this issue and noone could see it. ............................................... It seems that you are a bit confused about my question, so I’ll try to explain it more clearly. Calvinists have one perspective on interpreting scripture. They read verses to say that God has absolute control which He excersizes at all times to dictate everything that happens. They believe that within the box, people actually have FREEDOM to make choices, but that those choices are completely controlled by the ABILITIES that God grants. Thus, they believe that God is supremely powerful and sovereign. ............................................... Arminians, on the other hand, interpret those same verses differently. The believe that God has the ability to absolutely control the universe, but that He chooses not to excersize that ability at all times. Instead, they believe that God has created humans in such a way that they have both the FREEDOM and ABILITY to choose whether to love God or not. However, since God is simply choosing not to excersize His ability to determine every choice, they believe that God is still supremely powerful and sovereign. ............................................... The interesting thing is that both perspectives claim that God is sovereign. Arminians generally understand that the Calvinist perspective, even if they disagree with it, leads to a belief in a soverign God. However, Calvinists generally are under the impression that Arminian perspective, even if they disagree with it, DOES NOT lead to a belief in a sovereign God. I propose that this impression is wrong, and I am asking that someone to explain, using scripture and reason, why Calvinists believe that. Not why they believe Arminianism is wrong, but why they believe that it is impossible for God to be sovereign in that perspective. ............................................... Thus far, I have found you to be a person who is well educated in the doctrines of Calvinism, with a firm grasp of scripture, and the rare ability to at least begin to understand Arminianism, even though you don’t agree with it. Therefore, I hope that if anyone would be able to answer this question, you might be the one to do it. Out of respect for some of my other colleagues here at the forum, I should mention that I there are others such as Reformer Joe who could fit this description. |
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315 | Is God in absolut contrl over all things | Acts 4:24 | Sir Pent | 61594 | ||
Dear John, Please let me clarify. You said, “You have granted that, at least fom my perspective, the Bible may indicate God's absolute control over all things. What I am interested in is what do those verse say from your perspective. “ Actually I am proposing that those verses say the say thing regardless of whether you are a C or A. I am saying that both perspectives believe that God has absolute control and is sovereign. It seems the burden of proof is on the C perspective to provide verses that show that the A perspective makes the sovereignity of God impossible. |
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316 | there's many denomination yet 1 spirit | Eph 5:1 | Sir Pent | 61584 | ||
Correction ........................................................ JRdoc, It appears that you misunderstood a previous post of mine. I did not say that I wished you to stop posting on this forum in general. I hope that you continue to participate here, for I feel that you could learn much from many of my esteemed colleagues here. I also believe that you have ideas to offer that would be of benefit to myself and others here. My actual admonition was not to cease posting anywhere in the forum, but rather to cease posting on one particular subject, in one particular thread, which I am involved in. ........................................................ That thread is one with a very specific purpose, which must be maintained because it is very close to a very large sensitive topic that would quickly get out of control otherwise. That is why I made that statement to you and to my colleague Hank. You are welcome to post to any other thread on this forum to your heart’s delight, as far as I’m concerned. In fact, you may even post in that thread that I was talking about as long as you stay on the specific topic being addressed. ........................................................ I hope that I have now made myself clear. |
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317 | Is God in absolut contrl over all things | Acts 4:24 | Sir Pent | 61582 | ||
Personal Note ............................................... Dear John, I would prefer not to completely drop the terms “calvinism” and “arminianism” becuase they are quick ways to identify certain perspectives of Biblical interpretation. I do agree that we should continue to avoid trying to justify their respective teachings as such. I also encourage the use of scripture as long as it relates specifically to our laser focus of the sovereignity of God. Therefore, keeping all this in mind, I look forward to your response to my post number 61495. Thanks again for continuing to post to this topic with kindness towards me and focusing on the topic, I will try to do the same towards you. |
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318 | Is God in absolut contrl over all things | Acts 4:24 | Sir Pent | 61566 | ||
Personal Note ...................................... Dear Hank and JRdoc, I would ask that neither of you continue this discussion on this thread. I forsee this only enlarging again into the whole C and A debate. I am trying very hard to maintain a laser focus in this thread to discover if there can be consensus on one very specific point, and the two of you going back and forth about all the other related issues will only muddy the waters. |
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319 | Is God in absolut contrl over all things | Acts 4:24 | Sir Pent | 61540 | ||
Personal Note, Oops ..................................... Dear JRdoc, I apologize for calling you by the wrong name. I assumed that it was John Reformed who was responding to my last post, since he and I have been pretty much exclusively responding on this topic (not that others aren’t welcome, just that most others have given up all hope of reaching consensus on anything related to C and A). So again, I’m sorry for any confusion I might have caused. ..................................... Now on to your post. I will try to respond to you points one at a time. 1. I called you the wrong name. See above. 2. You want to discuss specific scripture verses to prove that Calvinism is correct. I’m not interested. You have already done that with other people on this forum, and I don’t seek redundancy. The purpose of this thread is solely to discuss whether it is possible for a person with an Arminian perspective to believe in a sovereign God. 3. You say that “It is not possible for God to be sovereign in the Arminian perspective” (but you don’t say why). Then you say that “Arminianism sees man as partly sovereign”. However, John Reformed pointed out previously and I agree that there is no such thing as “partly” sovereign. One either is supremely powerful or not. 4. You say that the child would never pick something in the store that belongs to God (and quote more scriptures supporting Calvinism). Once again this is irrelevant to the question of this thread; see above. ..................................... 5 and 6. Here you say that God would be less in control if He chooses to dictate some things that happen in the history of the universe than if He chose to dictate every single thing that has ever happened or ever will happen. Please explain why you think that. You quote a verse from Daniel that says that noone on Earth could “stay His (God’s) hand”. I interpret this to mean that noone can stop God from doing anything He chooses to do. That doesn’t tell us anything about whether God is less powerful if He chooses NOT to do something. In my thinking, a being is NOT any less powerful just because it chooses not to do something that it is capable of. ..................................... In summary, I am interested in your thoughts on points 5 and 6, but don’t particularly desire any further discussion on points 1, 2, 3, and 4. You may of course respond to them anyway, you have both the FREEDOM and the ABILITY :) |
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320 | Is God in absolut contrl over all things | Acts 4:24 | Sir Pent | 61525 | ||
The Dollar Store ........................................ Dear John, That last post of yours covered a lot of topics, but I will try to weed through to only the ones that actually deal specifiically with the sovereignity of God WITHIN the Arminian perspective. ........................................ Therefore your comment about the razor blades is not germane. This is a question of whether God would be loving to let the child choose the bad slide. We’re not talking about whether God is loving. Your comment about the child not being able to slide down either slide or even knowing what a slide is, is also not germane. That is not an idea held WITHIN the Arminian perspective. Nor is the idea of Total Depravity which is therefore also not germane. Please remember that we are only talking about whether it is possible for God to be soverign in the Arminian perspective, thus it is not helpful to try to convince me to believe in the Calvinist perspective. ........................................ Finally at the end of your post you mention that God would not be sovereign if anything “would not be under His immediate and direct control and thus everything from that point would change everything else.” I can understand why you might think that, but let’s look at it a little closer. It is possible for a being to allow limited freedom within a system while still being in control. For instance, in our town their is a store where everything costs 1 dollar. Now a parent could go to that store and lay a dollar bill on the counter and then tell their kid to go pick out any on thing in the store and the money on the counter will pay for it. The kid then actually does have freedom to choose whatever they want, but the parent’s “prophecy” will still come true when they bring it up to be paid for and the dollar bill is already there. This is an example of a time when a subject can be given both the FREEDOM and the ABILITY to make a choice while at the same time some future things will not change. ........................................ Since God is all powerful, couldn’t He do the same thing? Couldn’t He create a universe where humans have the FREEDOM and ABILITY to choose whether to love God or not, yet at the same time be able to determine several critical points along the way (including the end of time)? And if God had the ability to, at any point, take back over and dictate everything, then wouldn’t He still be completely in control? Just because God chooses not to excersize His abilitiy to dictate everything, does that make Him cease to be supremely powerful? |
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