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NASB | Genesis 1:22 God blessed them, saying, "Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth." |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Genesis 1:22 And God blessed them, saying, "Be fruitful, multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth." |
Bible Question:
Ok, I've got a good question for Discussion. But before I ask it, let's not get into the unanswerable Calvinism Armenianism thing OK. OK here we go, this ought to be fun. I asked a Calvinist one time... "Do you have Kids?" He said "3". I said "Why would you have kids if God might choose one of them to go to hell?" Do you think a true calvinist would ever have kids, because what if God chose one of them for eternal damnation? |
Bible Answer: Just out of curiosity, what was the Calvinist's answer to your "biting question"? My answer comes from covenant theology, something with which Reformed Baptists will disagree. While Reformation theology does hold that God passes over some that already chosen in our own fallen natures to go to hell (that would be all of us, since there is no default state of "neutral"), it also believes other promises that God makes to those belonging to His covenant people: "For the promise is for you and your children and for all who are far off, as many as the Lord our God will call to Himself." --Acts 2:39 Our children are included in the covenant promises of God, in such a way that if we do train up a child in the way he should go, as the book of Proverbs tells us to, God will ordinarily bring those covenant children to saving faith in Christ through the ministry of the parents and the church. Just out of curiosity, why would an Arminian give birth to a depraved child, knowing that the child may never trust in Jesus and go to hell? If it is up to ourselves to choose, then that is quite a gamble! --Joe! |