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- Wed Mar 30, 2011 4:29 pm
- Forum: Acts & Epistles
- Topic: Titus 2:11-14
- Replies: 6
- Views: 4519
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?
- Wed Mar 30, 2011 4:08 am
- Forum: Acts & Epistles
- Topic: Titus 2:11-14
- Replies: 6
- Views: 4519
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 ...
- Sat Mar 26, 2011 4:39 pm
- Forum: Calvinism, Arminianism & Open Theism
- Topic: Total Depravity and Choosing God
- Replies: 11
- Views: 9457
Re: Total Depravity and Choosing God
The book, its actually at the end of the book pgs 310-312
- Sat Mar 26, 2011 8:49 am
- Forum: Calvinism, Arminianism & Open Theism
- Topic: Total Depravity and Choosing God
- Replies: 11
- Views: 9457
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 ...
- Sat Mar 26, 2011 7:40 am
- Forum: Acts & Epistles
- Topic: Titus 2:11-14
- Replies: 6
- Views: 4519
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...
- Fri Mar 25, 2011 8:12 pm
- Forum: Calvinism, Arminianism & Open Theism
- Topic: Total Depravity and Choosing God
- Replies: 11
- Views: 9457
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, ...
- Fri Mar 25, 2011 7:35 pm
- Forum: Acts & Epistles
- Topic: Titus 2:11-14
- Replies: 6
- Views: 4519
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...
- Sun Dec 21, 2008 12:10 am
- Forum: Calvinism, Arminianism & Open Theism
- Topic: Eternal Security & Free Will
- Replies: 17
- Views: 27019
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...
- Fri Dec 19, 2008 6:22 pm
- Forum: Calvinism, Arminianism & Open Theism
- Topic: Eternal Security & Free Will
- Replies: 17
- Views: 27019
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...
- Thu Dec 18, 2008 5:08 am
- Forum: Calvinism, Arminianism & Open Theism
- Topic: The Foreknowledge of God
- Replies: 62
- Views: 34966
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...