Subject: God is not the author of evil. |
Bible Note: John yet it is exactly what you said. Man is so sick he doesn't know he needs God, can't do anything good, and wouldn't want to if he could. Then God secretly created grace and gives it to some who have to accept it, can't resist it, and really didn't know they needed it. God also picked people that He refused to allow to have this grace so they are automatically condemned to hell, not knowing they didn't have God's grace to save them and not wanting it if they did. In other words the T-shirt that was so popular years ago had it right. Kill them all let God sort them out. Man is nothing more than a commodity that God sorts some to eternal bliss others to eternal hell. Man is so messed up he has no stake in his own destiny. Then God plays a trick on man He sends His Son and says if you believe you will have salvation. But He really doesn't mean it what it really means is God will pick those who are saved adn who aren't. Man is nothing more than pawn. Doesn't that sound a little wacked up to you? Don't you beleive the Bible where it says Whosoever will? Don't you beleive the Bible where it says 2 Peter 3:9 The Lord is not slow about His promise, as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing for any to perish but for all to come to repentance. Doesn't "whosoever" and "all" make you think Calvin might have had it wrong. Then you tell me my conclusions are so far from what you believe you wonder if we both speak the same language. I know the problem! we don't speak the same language, you speak English according to Calvin. To me "whosoever" means who ever chooses to believe. That "all" means all. It is calvin that says "Whosoever" only means some, a few, only the elect. And "all" doesn't mean all but only those that God has picked, elected, choosen. And how does Calvin come up with this? Was he a trained theologian? Did he study the Bible long and deeply before stating this? Did he base his conclusion on more than a few verses? The answer to each of these questions is NO! Calvin was a wordsmith a lawyer who was earning a living trying to refute Rome. He admittedly had only been saved 1 or 2 years before he put forth this nonsense so many call doctrine. He based it on a few isolated verses found only in the book of Romans. The case he made was summarily rejected at the time and is today by any one soundly versed in scripture. EdB |