Answering Leighton Flowers - Why Most Christians Resist Calvinism Part 3 -State Church and Slavery

We revisit the issue of pride, and Mr. Flowers assertion that Calvinists were tortures and slave owners. He takes a fault that is universal to all men and applies them to Calvinists, as if the system itself is the cause of these vices. We delve into history to examine the church-state controversy, the rise of human liberty, and the issue of slavery and abolitionism. Did Calvinists of the American Civil War era oppose abolition because they supported slavery or were there deeper reasons? What about the Calvinists a generation or two before, across the Pond, who dedicated their lives to stopping the slave trade? Examining the inaccuracies of Mr. Flowers' assertion that Calvinists do not believe that all may come to Christ.

[innerfire]

Unconditional election, Perservance of the Saints Jusifitacion by faith alone....
I'm having trouble finding something to be proud of in myself.

Now if I choose Christ because I was more noble or more intelligent then I'd have something.

[KISStheSON...]

Since when can't we admit to our depravity?
That's what repentance is.
That's what every man has been commanded to do.
Admit that you are a lawbreaker and put your trust in the lawgiver.
It's just that simple.
Either you will or you will not.
The message is sent into the world to find those who are seeking hope and they will find it in his gospel of reconciliation.
Our sin makes us feel hopeless because we know we cannot stop and obtain God's moral law.
The message is that we are unable to stop because we were made unable to stop.
The good news in the message is that Christ died for our sins. The message brings us the hope we were searching for and we find it in Christ Jesus.


The flesh lusts after sin and our minds know it's wrong.
Some will hate that about themselves and want a place to hide from their sins, and some couldn't care less.


Proverbs 22:3
“A prudent man foreseeth the evil, and hideth himself: but the simple pass on, and are punished.”


Psalms 32:7
“Thou art my hiding place; thou shalt preserve me from trouble; thou shalt compass me about with songs of deliverance. Selah.”


Prudent:
acting with or showing care and thought for the future.


Where to PUT our trust is learned and in order to learn you must be willing to hear.
Proverbs 1:5
“A wise man will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels:”


Proverbs 1:7
“The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.”


Wise:
responding sensibly or shrewdly to a particular situation.


Psalms 94:8
“Understand, ye brutish among the people: and ye fools, when will ye be wise?”


The fear of the Lord is the BEGINNING of knowledge...Proverbs 8:13
“The fear of the LORD is to hate evil: pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth, do I hate.”


Evil does not hate pride and arrogance.
Evil stands against God it doesn't hide.
All who find Christ HATE evil.
It's that simple.