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1. Phil Williamson June 19, 2023 at 23:39

   Your website’s belief statement says, … “Do you believe as one modern crusade evangelist said, that “salvation is 99% God, and 1% man”, or instead, is salvation 100% the work of God?” … Calvinist Theology refutes everything the Bible teaches about choice and human free will to choose or reject the Lord from Cain and Abel to Jesus’ statement of ‘whosoever’ in John 3:16.
   Your belief of N.T. predestination presents the subject as God’s choice by the individual. That is its error. The contexts of N.T. predestination are predominantly presented as God’s plan that applies to a GROUP of persons not to particular pre-named individuals. The pronouns used in the context of the term ‘predestined’ are consistently not singular but plural as in “those” not in “you”. … That is only the beginning of the grammatical errors, alone, that involve the errant Calvinist teaching of Predestination. …
   It’s heresy eliminates any true personal, willful act of contrite repentance of the individual. The person simply acknowledges that GOD chose them. There is No preceding, acknowledged or required an act of repentance for personal sin necessary as required by Jesus and His Good News in Mt.3:17 and more. The individual has no personal choice in the salvation transaction according to Calvin’s own words. He is completely pre-selected by God to believe. ..
   Finally, this heresy form of salvation opened the historic floodgate of aggressive religious supremacy stretching from Calvin’s Geneva failure, thru the 16th C. Puritan Revolution in England, to the human blood of the Salem witch hunts, to the white supremacy of Sherman and his near extermination of Native America to the recent storming of the U.S. Capital and, “My way or death.” of the radical, predestined religious right mindset today. …
   The entire trail of predestination begins with its birth in the heresy of Augustine, the Crusades and the Dark Ages of Europe saturated in supremacist ‘Christian Militant’ human bloodshed. Where does Jesus teach, “Take up your swords, our guns and follow me? “. Please find that in the Spirit and teachings of Jesus Christ and His Holy Spirit. …
   Tragically, you teach and promote an historically blood-soaked heresy, all of which will burn in His fire that will judge and test the quality of each man’s works including those of Augustine, Sproul and beyond. 1 Cor.3:10-16

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2. Jonalyn October 8, 2011 at 15:19

   Fraknly I think that’s absolutely good stuff.

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