If Western Christians ever woke up to God's provisions & promises, we'd be a real threat to the gates of hell. We've settled for institutional church instead π΄
What's your guess as to why so many posts by Calvinists can easily be perceived as posts by non-Calvinists, when...
Calvinism's view of God, His will, sin, election, grace, predestination, sovereignty, and the gospel are radically different than those of non-Calvinists?
Why would a Calvinist talk about "accepting" this or that Jesus?
Are they unaware that the saved and the Damned we're all determined before the world began?
Quit talking like non-calvinists!
Demons assent to many true propositions:
God exists.
Jesus is the Son of God.
Jesus died and rose again.
Judgment is coming.
Yet they obviously do not possess saving faith.
The New Testament repeatedly describes faith in relational and personal terms.
- Calvinism VS Non-Calvinism
- Protestants VS Catholics
- Pre-Trib VS post-Trib
- Once Saved Always Saved VS conditional eternal security
We can have all of our "doctrines" nailed down tight, but knowledge only puffs up apart from obeying the Lord and scripture β¬οΈβ¬οΈβ¬οΈ
Reformed Theologian: We always do our greatest desire.
The Apostle Paul: For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do. And if I do what I do not want to do...
@grcastleberry is a professional, likely Seminary-trained "pastor" who believes the church literally rises or falls according to the quality of HIS essential work from behind "the pulpit," which has zero biblical support.
Self-import men rarely even mention THE Good Shepherd.
IF Western believers truly grasped the awe-inspiring depth of the gospel, & were willing to come together under the ACTUAL headship of Christ, to BE & DO as HE leads...
We would actually function as HE DID under His Father.
A remnant WILL follow the Lamb wherever He leads...
"God and sexual sin don't belong together" is true.
Neither do God and pride, greed, envy, anger, or unbelief.
Yet Christians still battle all of them. Sanctification is a war, not the instant removal of every sinful inclination.
Romans 7 and Galatians 5.
Unless we believe and apprehend [by grace through faith] the REALITY of Christ IN us and expressing His life and nature THROUGH us...
TRYING to do the things listed below will only produce frustration and failure, OR man-made self-righteousness.
Christ IS our life.
Believe in the gospel
Believe in the deity of Jesus
Believe that the Bible is the Word of God
Reject all human tradition and systems
Reject the worlds way and materialism
Forsake yourself
Put God first
Purify your mind and heart
Gain all wisdom and understanding
Western, institutional churches should FIRST Focus on coming into alignment with Biblical Ekklesia, so clearly laid out in Scripture.
Apart from doing that, they are merely busy with bland, powerless, fleshly religious activity.
A pre-trib rapture appears 1800 years after the apostles, promising ESCAPE before tribulation, but the New Testament repeatedly places resurrection at Christβs return at the LAST DAY.
If a doctrine disappears when you read the plain passages, it isnβt coming from the text.
Calvinist Danny presents one of THE strongest arguments against Calvinism.
Calvinism's God COMMANDS all men to repent, but most men are π―% unwilling AND unable to obey because he decreed and preordained them to eternal damnation.
I believe ALL sects of what are considered to be true segments of Christendom have serious flaws & issues.
They've all complicated the simplicity that is in Christ by addition and/or subtraction.