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Originally Posted by Socialite
Teaching that we are the elect of God, that He will be faithful and see us through to the end is adding to the Word?
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I agree with what you wrote but that is what is said on the surface in Calvinism. How does a Calvinist believe that God determines who is elect and who is not elect?
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And... does it put a stumbling block in the way? Really?
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The stumbling block is a false view of God and if followed to its logical conclusion will distinguish any desire to evangelize since God will make sure that the elect will be saved whether we do anything about it or not.
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Which is a stumbling block offense --- You can't be saved unless you do this, this, this, this and this.
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You can't do anything to save yourself. It's a gift from God. Only believe and receive it.
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Both.
My biggest complaint about Calvinist's is the way I understand them to portray God. Some of the things I hear from Calvinists makes me wonder what God they are referring to. The character of God…his justness, his love, and his humility are all thrown by the wayside. They seem to serve a proud God who is vain and seeks his own glory. A God who is unjust in that he saves some and not others appearing to be partial. And a God who’s love is suspect and quite opposite of the love we are enjoined to follow (
1 Cor 13), the justice we are asked to observe (
James 2:9), and the perspective on self that we are asked to walk in (
John 8:50, 17:8). I don’t recognize this God in the Bible.
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