Calvinism is the false gospel of Greek philosophy and intellectual idiocracy.
I find you all thinking you're smarter than John Calvin or St. Augustine to be adorable. It's like watching a puppy chew on a bone and never getting into it
Calvinism is the false gospel of Greek philosophy and intellectual idiocracy.
Clearly you are trying to use the word 'convoluted' .
The title is not convoluted. Your ideas are convoluted.
I find you all thinking you're smarter than John Calvin or St. Augustine to be adorable. It's like watching a puppy chew on a bone and never getting into it
Who said we were smarter than those men? We just are smart enough to believe what God said and not twist it to say what we think God meant to say.
We are, in that sense, much more wise than those men.
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You'd be Catholic, praising Mary right now saying. That's your 'wise' for you
I'm sorry, that was incoherent. Can you clarify?
The Reformers are the reason you are not Catholic right now. They are the ones who perpetuated the idea of the public having Bibles :doh:
You are not wiser, you are a ~product~
I think you are conflating issues. Nobody said we aren't thankful for the reformers, we just don't think they went far enough from Rome.
And now that we have an English bible, it is our duty and responsibility to read and understand the scriptures for ourselves, as that is how we will stand before God, by ourselves. While I may read and learn from Luther and Calvin, I also reject out of hand any "interpretation" that says "all" isn't all or that "whosoever" doesn't mean anybody and that "whole world" doesn't mean the people in it.
Calvins TULIP is a dead flower that is rifled with error. I appreciate men like Spurgeon and can even enjoy listening to some moder calvinists preach, but I just think calvinism, particularly the "L" is a satanic heresy that was born out of "hath God said".
Reformed doctrine is called so because it is refined and improved. It is the reverting back from the centuries of heresy that laid within Christianity- the Early Christians were Calvinistic. The biblical authors were Calvinistic.
Your theology hasn't done anything but lace heresy all through Christianity, because you all are not taking facts into consideration while interpreting- God is immutable and omniscient- therefore you are simply wrong.
We bible believers just believe what we read, as a child, and take God at His word. You are playing in the garden with satan who has you thinking "hath God said whosoever?" "Hath God said believe?" "Hath God said all?"
I find you all thinking you're smarter than John Calvin or St. Augustine to be adorable. It's like watching a puppy chew on a bone and never getting into it
Reformed doctrine is called so because it is refined and improved. It is the reverting back from the centuries of heresy that laid within Christianity- the Early Christians were Calvinistic. The biblical authors were Calvinistic.
Your theology hasn't done anything but lace heresy all through Christianity, because you all are not taking facts into consideration while interpreting- God is immutable and omniscient- therefore you are simply wrong.
All mankind was sentenced to hell. All is totally depraved. Calvin got that rightSome folks are pre-destined for hell, are you one ?
All mankind was sentenced to hell. All is totally depraved. Calvin got that right
Calvin is right that God created a hell for a reason.And all mankind is declared righteous 'in Christ'. Every single human being deserves to go to heaven because all their sins have been blotted out by the blood of Christ. Thus there are two possible destinies for every human being. God simply knows our destiny before we were born. Calvin got that wrong.
God loves all people because he created all people and died for all people.
That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust. Matt. 5:45