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by NJchosen
Wed Mar 30, 2011 4:29 pm
Forum: Acts & Epistles
Topic: Titus 2:11-14
Replies: 6
Views: 3173

Re: Titus 2:11-14

What specifically do you agree with or disagree with my understanding of the text? From the text would you come the same or similar results?
by NJchosen
Wed Mar 30, 2011 4:08 am
Forum: Acts & Epistles
Topic: Titus 2:11-14
Replies: 6
Views: 3173

Re: Titus 2:11-14

I was reading Calvin's commentary on this verse after I had written it and think this is why he viewed the "all men" as "all kinds of men" which seems to best fit the text. These words in the original are not locked into a literal 'all men' or all of humanity. Since there is no 'but or 'however' or ...
by NJchosen
Sat Mar 26, 2011 4:39 pm
Forum: Calvinism, Arminianism & Open Theism
Topic: Total Depravity and Choosing God
Replies: 11
Views: 7510

Re: Total Depravity and Choosing God

The book, its actually at the end of the book pgs 310-312
by NJchosen
Sat Mar 26, 2011 8:49 am
Forum: Calvinism, Arminianism & Open Theism
Topic: Total Depravity and Choosing God
Replies: 11
Views: 7510

Re: Total Depravity and Choosing God

Steve, I never got to say thanks for your study on Revelation you did years ago. The questioning of Dispensationalism opened my eyes to what I had believed while I was at Calvary Chapel. It also lead me to become a Calvinist, but I still am open as I can be trying to always test my beliefs in light ...
by NJchosen
Sat Mar 26, 2011 7:40 am
Forum: Acts & Epistles
Topic: Titus 2:11-14
Replies: 6
Views: 3173

Re: Titus 2:11-14

Paidion, The end result (not the timing of it all) is what I think they share in. Whether its here on earth or after death, the universal salvation idea applies. Are you saying there are Universalists who believe people end up in hell? If Christ died for all and actually paid the fine of sin for all...
by NJchosen
Fri Mar 25, 2011 8:12 pm
Forum: Calvinism, Arminianism & Open Theism
Topic: Total Depravity and Choosing God
Replies: 11
Views: 7510

Re: Total Depravity and Choosing God

The Parable of the Sower Matthew 13 is a good picture of men who come to God and then fall away versus have genuinely received the word and were fruitful. Even as a former arminian I remember believing there are those who claimed to know Christ but fell away from the faith. Men who professed faith, ...
by NJchosen
Fri Mar 25, 2011 7:35 pm
Forum: Acts & Epistles
Topic: Titus 2:11-14
Replies: 6
Views: 3173

Titus 2:11-14

Scripture: Titus 2:11-14 All of chapter two deals with the responsibilities and instruction of believers. The "you" in verse 1 is the old and young people mentioned in verses 2-9. It is said of them that "God" is their "Savior" in verse 10. This letter was written to Titus, but the content speaks to...
by NJchosen
Sun Dec 21, 2008 12:10 am
Forum: Calvinism, Arminianism & Open Theism
Topic: Eternal Security & Free Will
Replies: 17
Views: 20976

Re: Eternal Security & Free Will

When I once believed in human free will, from an Arminian standpoint, I likewise believed in the eternal security of the believer. Also I believed that those who put their hands to the plow and not only looked back, but went back to their old ways, were simply never born again to begin with. There a...
by NJchosen
Fri Dec 19, 2008 6:22 pm
Forum: Calvinism, Arminianism & Open Theism
Topic: Eternal Security & Free Will
Replies: 17
Views: 20976

Eternal Security & Free Will

I have a question for the Arminian Christians. I once held to arminian ideas and eternal security. I still hold to eternal security, but no longer to arminian ideas. Now from an Arminian standpoint most are committed to an outright rejection of irresistible grace as TULIP explains. But how can you b...
by NJchosen
Thu Dec 18, 2008 5:08 am
Forum: Calvinism, Arminianism & Open Theism
Topic: The Foreknowledge of God
Replies: 62
Views: 23878

Re: The Foreknowledge of God

As Pink stated and scripture confirms, (The fact is that "foreknowledge" is never used in Scripture in connection with events or actions; instead, it always has reference to persons. It is persons God is said to "foreknow," not the actions of those persons. In proof of this we shall now quote each p...

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