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Again, mere potentiality, not actuality, given your view that the check may not be accepted. Yes, let's be more complete. In my version the billionaire is actually the one who created all around Him, God, if you will. Hence one's duty is not to seek to apprehend the secret will of God, but to...

Indeed, I was, as are all before their re-birth (Eph. 2:1-5). I do know where you are headed here, and it would be more effective to just lay out your entire agenda than just resorting to playing twenty questions, as it were. ;) The elect are under the same condemnation until the application of...

Capacity and ability are not the same. The capacity to seek the good comes from the original creation of man in an upright state in the image of God. In his fallen state man's capacity is wholly debilitated by the corruption of the fall, hence inability. Original man was created with the...

The reasons are why predestination should be embraced is because Our Lord and the apostles frequently taught it, since it appears from in the Gospels, e.g., Matthew 11:20, 25; 13:11; 25:34; Luke 10:20; 12:32; John 8:47; 15:16 and in other places. Predestination is also is taught from the...

While not incorrect, per se, the use of "entities" often leads to confusion as it usually implies, to the modern ear, mutually independent "beings", as in the Godhead comprises three separate and mutually independent beings. This is untrue. The three personal subsistences are each comprised of...

From a recent discussion: Persons constructing straw men of the Calvinist's views by claiming we operate from the same presuppositions they do and therefore believe about our beliefs what they believe about our beliefs leaves no hope for honest discussion. Instead of erroneously claiming the...

MAD*... 1. Dispensational Theology distinguishes between Israel and the Church 2. Unaware that Jesus will be crucified, the 12 preach the gospel of the kingdom 3. Isaiah chapter 53 4. Rightly dividing the word: A scriptural necessity 5. The new covenant did NOT begin with the birth of Christ 6...

I was recently asked What is your individual policy on engaging in internet debate? My response follows.... One must be a good steward of the time God grants them (Ephesians 5:15; Ecclesiastes 11:9; Mark 12:30). The time granted should be spent bringing glory to God in word, deed, or thought...

Elect infants, dying in infancy, are regenerated, and saved by Christ, through the Spirit, (Luke 18:15-16, Acts 2:38-39, John 3:3, 5, 1 John 5:12, Rom. 8:9) who worketh when, and where, and how He pleases: (John 3:8) so also are all other elect persons who are uncapable of being outwardly called...

Who was Paul describing in Romans 7:14-25? The unsaved? The saved? No one in particular? See: http://www.theologyonline.com/forums/showthread.php?p=1562708#post1562708 http://www.theologyonline.com/forums/showthread.php?p=1564503#post1564503...

Not a day passes that some enthusiastic anti-Calvinist lays the charge that we Reformed are followers of the words of men, especially John Calvin. It is quite simple for me. As do all Reformed, I hold Scripture to be the norming norm in all that I do, think, or say. Scripture is my sole rule of...

Rightly dividing, properly interepreted, means "to handle correctly". Literally, the phrase means literally cutting something in a straight way. Figuratively, teaching or expounding correctly. Unfortunately, Scofield's wooden literalism of the phrase led to the movement that cuts up or divides...

To be historically accurate Jochaim Westphal (1510-1574) was the first theologian to use the term "Calvinist". He was a Lutheran theologian that debated Calvin on the sacrament of the Lord's Supper. A Calvinist, initially, was one who held to Calvin's view of the supper. That would exclude the...

Some basic principles related to understanding the will of God: 1. Where God commands, we must obey. 2. Where there is no command, God gives us freedom (and responsibility) to choose. 3. Where there is no command, God gives us wisdom to choose. 4. When we have chosen what is moral and wise, we...

Recently a fellow wondered that given that God ordains all things should we not be just considered pawns on a chessboard? I would like to respond to that view.. Pawns on a chessboard are not moral agents. As our Confession states: Chapter 3 1. God from all eternity, did, by the most wise...

By Sam Storms... 1. Election is a pre-temporal decision by God, a choice he made before any of us ever existed. God chose us in Christ “before the foundation of the world” (Eph. 1:4). God “saved us,” said Paul, “and called us to a holy calling, not because of our works but because of his own...

26 For if we are willfully sinning after receiving the full knowledge of the truth, there remains no more sacrifice concerning sins, 27 but a certain fearful expectation of judgment and "zealous fire being about to consume the adversaries." (quoting from Isaiah 26:11) 28 If anyone did not regard...

Heb. 9:27 And just as it is appointed for man to die once, and after that comes judgment, Heb. 9:28 so Christ, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time, not to deal with sin but to save those who are eagerly waiting for him. (ESV) With these verses the...

Hebrews 6:4-6: Heb 6:4 For in the case of those who have once been enlightened and have tasted of the heavenly gift and have been made partakers of the Holy Spirit, Heb 6:5 and have tasted the good word of God and the powers of the age to come, Heb 6:6 and then have fallen away, it is...

Er, no. The author of Hebrews here makes no such claim that the believer needs evidence, rather the author asserts that the believer’s faith is the objective reality, the evidence, of what is to come. Please study the passage and its surrounding context. The “substance” in the passage is...