Calvinism, Election, Eph 1 It's what the Bible Says...

Calvinism, Predestination, Election, Ephesians 1 It's what the Bible Says...

Jim McClarty preaches on Ephesians Chapter 1 and the Doctrine of Election. Calvinism vs Arminianism

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[pete129]

Those opposed to Calvinism. How do you explain all the scripture that uses the word Elect? Like Ephesians Chapt. 1?

[silmalila]

I highly recommend that those who oppose Calvinism read the Canons of the Synod of Dordt, and see how your Arminian views stack up next to the five points of Calvinism, which were made in refution of the heresy which is Arminianism.

[silmalila]

You do not worship God, you worship your 'free will'.

Read the Bible, for goodness sake. Your argument isn't with Calvinists, its with the Word of God, God Himself.

You cannot take any credit for your salvation. All glory goes to God!

[lessingtom]

@silmalila

Romans 9:15, 16 does not mean that God has mercy and compassion on the elect alone. It simply means that He alone is the dispenser of salvivic mercy and compassion and that no man can earn it by doing good works. What about Pharaoh? God foreknew that he would harden his own heart and persistently refuse to repent and hence used him for his own divine purposes.

[lessingtom]

@silmalila

Does He draw all men or only the elect? Why is it that Calvinists never quote John 12:32?: "And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw ALL men unto me."

[lessingtom]

@silmalila

What do you mean by prevenient work - a monergistic regeneration without the elected sinner having to place his faith in Jesus IN ORDER to be saved?

[silmalila]

@danielucy Some have insisted that God sent Jesus to die for the purpose of bringing salvation to everyone without exception, but only as a possiblilty. However, Jesus makes it clear that the salvation of those whom the Father 'gives me' and only those, is not a mere possibility but an absolute certainty; 'will come to me'. The point made by 'the world' is that Christ's saving work is not limited to one time or place but applies to the elect from all over the world.

[silmalila]

@lessingtom Amen, brother!

[silmalila]

@lessingtom God must do a prevenient work in the soul of the sinner before that person can believe. We are so depraved that we could not choose Christ if it depended upon our own abilities. We were ruined in the Fall, we are sinful and our hearts are turned away from God from birth. "No man can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him to me, and I will raise him up on the last day." Thus says our Lord Jesus Christ.

Calvin merely pointed out the truth.

[silmalila]

@lessingtom "What shall we say, then? Is there injustice on God's part? By no means! For God says to Moses 'I will have mercy on who I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion'. So then it depends not on human will or exertion, but on God, who has mercy. For the Scripture says to Pharoah, 'For this very purpose I have raised you up, that my name might be proclaimed in all the earth'. So then he has mercy on whom he wills, and he hardens whomever He wills"