__________________ "all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed."
~Declaration of Independence
I'm a Christian. I do not follow Calvin, Arminius, Pelagius, Charles Russel, Joseph Smith, or any other cult leader. Calvinism, Arminianism, Wesleyism, Lutherism, Russelism, Smithism... they are all cults of personality rife with false doctrines. I try to follow the apostles of Jesus Christ, because only through them can we know the doctrine (teaching) of Christ, and only Christ's doctrine will save and bring enlightenment.
I suppose, however, based on the choices you gave, that you are looking for a poll of views regarding the subjects of original sin and free will and predestination?
The Bible doesn't teach or recognise the following false cultic doctrines of men:
That all humans are born hellbound with an odious sinful nature.
That God condemns all humans from birth to eternal destruction simply because they are descended from Adam, or simply because Adam sinned so all his posterity are automatically going to hell.
That sin is a disease (like cancer or a genetic defect) instead of crime against God's commandments.
That all humans have a natural, inborn constitutional inability to obey God.
That regeneration comes before faith.
That all human decisions are and have already been certain from eternity past.
That humans have no free will and are constitutionally and necessarily, naturally unable to choose good or evil.
That God decreed in eternity past the specific individuals who would finally be saved, or who would finally be lost.
That no person is able to put their trust in Jesus unless God somehow makes it happen.
That sin is 'inherited' in our dna, bloodstream, or some other physical manner.
That sin exists in our nature as some kind of 'physical' substance.
That Biblically commanded perfection cannot be obtained except upon or after physical death. (Notice, I said BIBLICALLY commanded perfection, not people's erroneous ideas about what constitutes Biblical perfection...)
That true doctrine can only be understood in the writings and teachings of some man or group that came after the original apostles and their writings (the New Testament scriptures), as is commonly believed by the followers of Calvin, Russel, Smith, and others.
That Biblical predestination has to do with individuals' final salvation or final damnation.
What he said.
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So, Esaias doesn't believe that we are born in sin or that man is a slave to sin before regeneration.
Anyone else in his group?
I never said I do not believe man is a slave to sin before regeneration. Whoever commits sin is the servant (bond-slave) of sin. This of course means that if you are sinning you are a slave to sin and are not "saved". The common doctrine that Christians " sin every day" is another cult lie not found in scripture.
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