Calvinism Defined

Men can't be blamed if they have no choice. Denial is a decision...

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[sandrastickle]

It also negates free will. God gives us all free will

[aletheia]

And here is what God says to the people that got in the shelter.

Romans 9:22 What if God, willing to shew tue wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction:
Romans 9:23 And that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he had afore prepared unto glory,


So the people in the shelter know that they are there utterly by the power of God’s mercy. So that they understand what God’s mercy is. Because if they got them selves into the shelter by the power of themselves, it would not have been God’s mercy. It would just be a nice guy that provided shelter for people that got them selves there.

Ask Noah. This kind of happened to him.

[aletheia]

And free will falsely presupposes that getting into the fortress means they have a free will.

[daniellamy]

Uh yeah, I live in Tucson and there was no storm or fortress and I'm very alive so....

[ManassehJones]

God told Noah and his family to build a fortress, there was a storm coming. It took 100 years. God didnt tell Noah to build spare bedrooms for the free willers that might believe. For 100 years whilst building the fortress, never was a spare bedroom added, as Noah preached a storm was coming. Hundreds of thousands, maybe millions, never a spare bedroom request. Storm came. The Lord shut the door of the fortress. No free willers on board.

Leighton would have you believe there would've been a spare bedroom for him. He has the "ability" to know Truth from fiction.

There's no such thing as an autonomous free will. Leighton proves it every time he tries teaching soteriology or biblical truth, as he is not free to choose to not be deceived as he is.