Once I was blind but now I see. I'm one of the sheep Jesus died for. I love him because he first loved me. Which is why I'm dilligent to make my calling and election sure. Ex Arminian Calvinist.
John 6:44 No one can come to the Son unless the father draws him to me and I will raise him up on the last day. We are chosen before the foundation of World.
arminians and calvinists have played verse ping-pong for centuries. for every proof text you can post, an arminian can toss another and in the end, i feel that christ weeps. i have come to love saying "i don't know. i love christ jesus and want to do his will and obey his commandments." why are there not more people saying and doing that? anyone in here "laying down their lives for brothers?" so "i don't know but do you want to go help the orphans and widows?" p.s. sometimes i wish that only the psalm 23, 131 and james had been the only books to survive.
John 6:45 It is written in the Prophets: ‘They will all be taught by God.’ Everyone who has heard the Father and learned from him comes to me." Don't worry, Jesus makes it clear. It's for the immediate context, not all people for all time.
Good summary. We all could stand to keep in mind that TULIP is a reaction to Arminianism. Also I love your greeting. "I hope you're having a great day in Jesus." I've got to use that.
I'll help you out. I'm against suicide. I was depressed also to suicidal. I almost did suicide as a 5-Point Calvinist. And these scriptures got me more hope. I became more Arminian now from these scriptures I posted on here. I believe people can fail salvation. Loving God is wanting to be useful for him much. What if a person could do that much of his time? And I enjoy working from this. People who enjoy working. When it's more likely to be boring to non-Christians. New American Standard Bible (NASB) Mark 9:33 (V)They came to Capernaum; and when He was in (W)the house, He began to question them, "What were you discussing on the way?" . Mark 9:34 But they kept silent, for on the way (X)they had discussed with one another which of them was the greatest. . Mark 9:35 Sitting down, He called the twelve and said to them, "(Y)If anyone wants to be first, he shall be last of all and servant of all." . Christian world domination. Why to raise kids Christians. God Son Jesus said similarly to whoever is useful the most is the best merited of the apostles. Useful merit for eternal rewards and competition with other Christians. With God Son Lord Jesus Christ faith teaching, people will want to be useful for the kingdom of Heaven, which usefulness happens on Earth and if any other place. We need to help this world as much as we can! This text could motivate, supposed to be Christian people, to do all types of usefulness. Chores, volunteering, grade school, high school, college, and work. Good people, this world needs them.
It is probable that most people believe whatever they were first taught about this subject. It seems also probable that Calvinists are diligent to teach their children from a Calvinist perspective. Most Arminians, however, aren’t even aware that there’s a name for that perspective and most Arminians fail to be intentional about encouraging their children to consider the evidence for that view. While I lean more toward the Arminian view, I think it is unfortunate that many Arminians speak disparagingly about John Calvin. The context in which Calvin developed his theology was a time when almost everybody in Europe had been taught that their destiny depended on remaining on the good side of the local priest. Imagine the sense of relief when Calvin taught them God had made that decision before they were even born! Even more recently, Calvin’s doctrines have the advantage of absolutely precluding any sort of salvation by works. For me, not only is salvation only by grace and only through faith but that principle applies to all aspects of salvation: justification, sanctification and glorification. I have been saved (justified)*, I am being saved, (sanctified) and I will be saved (glorified). There is nothing we can do to earn or deserve God’s forgiveness. We can no more transform ourselves than an Ethiopian can change his skin or a leopard can change his spots. We can’t be better people by trying to be better, even if we think we can accomplish that “with God’s help”. At the same time, we can give God permission to transform us (take away our selfishness and replace it with his selflessness). He won’t do so without our permission. The hierarchy of the Roman Church taught, for more than a thousand years, that the institutional Church was the kingdom of God on Earth. Jonathan Edwards (eighteenth century Congregationalist minister in the North American colonies) taught that Jesus would return only after Chrisitian evangelism had resulted in all or nearly all human institutions including civil governments adopting Christian principles. Many progressives continue to operate on the assumption of some version of postmillennialism. I don’t agree with the dispensationalist/futurist method of interpreting Bible prophecies but I’m an historicist premillennialist who believes Jesus will return at the beginning of the millennium to resurrect the people who have died in faith and take living believers with them to the mansions he has gone to prepare. Which is to say that the kingdom of glory will be inaugurated suddenly and catechismically entirely without our aid. We can enter the kingdom of glory only by grace and only through faith. Jesus can never be the kind of political messiah most traditionalists are expecting. *and I need that justification every day as symbolized by the continual (sometimes translated “daily”) sacrifices of the symbolic (antitypical) system
I’ve just decided to hold all the views. 😂 I hold a doctorate in this stuff and I figure if He’s a lion and a lamb, I’m just gonna hold all the views and trust in Jesus and do my best. 😂😂😂
I’d love to see you do a video describing your perspective on Van Til and Presuppositional Apologetics. I may be on an island alone, but I believe there’s a way to reconcile Calvinism with Apostolic Pentecostalism, and merge Theologies.
@@NewLifeOfAlbanyGa Thanks for the reply. Are you mainstream for your denomination? It seems that you work hard, and are even uncomfortable with, the Arminian precepts you endorse. Have you taken on the vain traditions of men in place of plain biblical exegesis? If you can read RM 9 and really believe God is not Sovereign over salvation (or Ephesians 1 and 2, RM 8, JN 3, JN 6... so many others) then I would challenge - not your intellect, not your sincerity, but your belief. Can you do videos exegeting these passages? Come back to the historic doctrine, dear friend. Believe the Word. Rest in it. Here is a study for you. What is faith and where does it come from? Only the Bible answers these. Good luck and God bless.
Thanks for the explanation. It seems like an enlightenment view placed upon scripture. Too many problems texts with this position and you have to straw man Calvinism to explain Arminianism. The clearest explaination of scripture isn’t necessarily the correct understanding of scripture. But this guy is a great teacher.
Hello sir, are you an Arminian or would you consider yourself more non-denominational who just things many of the points of Arminian are correct? Also what is that book you are reading?
@@NewLifeOfAlbanyGa thanks, wondering if I can get your opinion on a few doctrines. Do you believe that a true believer can lose their salvation? Who do you think the elect are?
@@rodgermilner7800 I know I'm a few years late and I'm not the person you're looking for, but as far as your second question, who are the elects? There's a similar word that we see use all the time in the old testament, basically means the same thing. It's God's chosen people. Did all of God's chosen people get to heaven? No, of course not. There are many Israelites who would have lost out on salvation. Since this seems to be an analogy made by Paul in romans, we must ask who are the elect of the new testament? It seems to differ based on which book you are reading. In much of Romans it seems that the elect are the jews, and now gentiles, who have and will be saved... But the emphasis in Romans is not about all of humanity that will be saved, the emphasis is on the fact that the gentiles were opened up to salvation as well. In Romans and Ephesians, this is what Paul is talking about as the elect. So basically, "the elect" is a contrasting term with "God's chosen people", and it's in reference to the opening up of gentiles to salvation, through "God's plan" to "unite all creation under Him". In other words, "the elect" is not a term that should be over speculated on, it's especially not a term meaning that God unconditionally chose everyone who is saved to be saved, it's more reminiscent again of how "God's chosen people " now includes all the believing world, and that this opening up was always part of God's plan. To get into a deeper discussion about why Paul chose these words, or why God had Paul choose these words, many naysayers and gnostics alike, as well as Jewish Christians, had problems with opening up Christ to the rest of the world. So Paul is constantly bringing up the idea that the opening up of Christ the gentiles was always part of God's plan, not just a scheme to get more followers. Again in both Romans and ephesians, Paul also takes this opportunity to rebuke the Jews of the day because they were acting all high and mighty and exclusionary. In Romans 9, for instance, which is commonly used calvinist text, if you read the entire chapter you begin to see that Paul is speaking specifically about the Israelites, as if they were Esau, the first born, and that Jacob was an analogy for the gentiles. In ephesians, Paul is speaking to mostly Greek Christians in ephesus, in chapter 1 and 2 Paul speaks to this plan in greater detail, and specifically in the second half of chapter 2 Paul speaks to how the ways of the old Jewish law or done with, that we require a spiritual circumcision, not one of flesh.
We are warned against bickering and fighting in the name of doctrines. Ephesians 4:4-6 is just one Biblical testimony that we are not to fight about doctrine and foolishness, Titus 3:9-10. Why? Because we under the four gospels and the whole of the Word of God are ONE BODY. The Calvinists and the Arminians and the catholics and the whatever else there is who neither added nor subtracted from the Word. Those of us will all stand before God and all from each sect will either be found washed in the blood of the Holy Lamb for our sins or we won't. Do not sit there and argue endlessly about different strengths and proofs of faith. It is ONE faith, ONE god, ONE resurrection, and ONE way.
I love Arminia and Arminian people I am originally from Iran . Iranian people always had good relationships with Arminians for many centuries regardless of the government. Long live Arminia
Jacobus Arminius was a man. Armenia is a country sharing a border, as you know, with Iran. Two vastly different topics. Arminius set forth the idea that man.
If you can lose your salvation, one can infer from that you can also gain salvation. Therefore, you are not only teaching a works salvation, you are also teaching a no hope salvation. People have to get away from the teachings of Calvanism and Armenianism. Neither teaches what faith realy is, and both have no eternal security. Run from both and read your Bible. You dont need the teachings from either one to explain what is meant in the word of God. 1 John 2:27 But the anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in him.
@@NewLifeOfAlbanyGa Thank you for your response. Do you know what true faith is? Eternal security is bound up in what faith really is. 1 John 5:13 These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God. --- True faith provides the full assurance of eternal life. If one does not know they have eternal life, they do not have true faith. So again, do you know what true faith is?
@@NewLifeOfAlbanyGa So then you would have to refute the 5th point of Armenianism. Both have to be rejected, Armenianism , and Calvanism. They totally agree on 2 things, that a person can lose their salvation, although the Calvinist says you never really had it if you dont persevere. And two, that faith comes from within a person. To note as well, they both believe that faith and belief are the same thing, which they are wrong on that also. Can you do a video on what true faith is? Or if you have already done one, can you direct me to it please? Thank you for your time.
No ancient church besides the Roman Catholics believed in original sin. What they believed in was ancestral sin. This is not armenianism but it is augustinianism
Ephesians 2:1: People who are “dead in trespasses and sins” can’t choose Christ. They must be “made alive” by God. Just as we have no say in our physical birth, we have no say in our spiritual birth (John 1:13). Regeneration precedes faith! ✝️
Born again, john 3 that Jesus said was known from the old testament, is not the same thing that is happening at Pentecost. Limited Atonement, so you're saying Jesus took the judgement and wrath of all, yet the majority of those people will be punished again for those same sins. Is that just? both an innocent and guilty man punished for the same sin?
How do you understand the verses that speak of. total depravity? No man seeks after God. no man is good. The hear and mind are evil perpetually. These are total depravity verses and shows man doesn't seek after God. If he doesn't seek after God, then without the call of God to come and the Spirit to conviction, a person doesn't have the ability to accept what he doesn't seek.
Thanks for this video.We can disagree on certain non essentials as some puts it because in one's study of the Bible. Just want to share some thoughts about the conversation between Charles Simeon and John Wesley its in pages 13 and 14 of Evangelism and the Sovereignty of God by J.I.Packer that's has been a blessing to me.At the end of their is this statement "Then Sir with your leave I will put my dagger again;for this all my Calvinism;this my election,my justification by faith,my final perseverance;it in the substance all that I bold and therefore if you please instead of searching out terms and phrases to be a ground of contention between us,we will cordially unite in those things wherein we agree".
Well, he could have just come out and said Calvinism is COMMUNIST, but that would have been a bit harsh. Communists rewrite history and deny Freewill like calvinists.
Pastor Steve Waldron , I do not believe in all you are saying about Arminianism is true. I do not believe we have free will, no were in the Bible does it say we have free will. Romans 8:29 For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.30 Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified. I believe in Paul Gospel of Grace given to Him by Jesus. Ephesians 3:2 If ye have heard of the dispensation of the grace of God which is given me to you-ward:3 How that by revelation he made known unto me the mystery; (as I wrote afore in few words, Romans 2:16 In the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ according to my gospel. I believe in once saved always saved. because we sealed by Holy Spirit Ephesians 1:13 In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise, If you are saved you not under the Law Romans 6:14 For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace. Paul said we are under civil law in Romans 13 you can read it. If you break the civil law that is a crime not a sin and you are called a criminal. Paul said we not to do that. Paul Gospel of Grace is difference from Gospel in first part of Acts. In Acts 5 Ananias, and Sapphira were saved under the Law that why they were punished. Galatians 2:16 Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law: for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified. Galatians 3:11 But that no man is justified by the law in the sight of God, it is evident: for, The just shall live by faith.12 And the law is not of faith: Please show me were I am wrong.
@@NewLifeOfAlbanyGa if we have free will it should be easy to prove it, but it is no were to be found in the Bible. We know we have Grace and it is free, if we only believe. Ephesians 2:8 For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: 9 Not of works, lest any man should boast.10 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.
@@ST52655 We are adopted by the Lord, a person can not adopt themselves. Ephesians 1:5 Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will, Galatians 4:5 To redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons. Acts 2:39 For the promise is unto you, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call. Acts 10:41 Not to all the people, but unto witnesses chosen before God, even to us, who did eat and drink with him after he rose from the dead. Romans 8:28 And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.29 For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.30 Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified.
Martin Luther said free will was a thing that existed in name only, and he was right. Today the Church believes in the “three yard line gospel”. Jesus gets the ball down to the three yard line but he is unable to score the winning touchdown so he has to hand it off to you and your freewill. The three yard line gospel and its underlying premise of free will is destroyed in the following five arguments. 1. The gospel is the powerful word of God that saves and results in the new birth. Acts 11:14 he will declare to you a message by which zyou will be saved, you and all your household. The word for saved is a passive participle it indicates the message will save and the recipients of the message will be acted upon by this message. 1 Peter 1:22-24 since you have been born again, enot of perishable seed but of imperishable, through fthe living and abiding word of God; 24 for g“All flesh is like grass and all its glory like the flower of grass. The grass withers, and the flower falls, 25 hbut the word of the Lord remains forever.” And this word iis the good news that was preached to you. In this passage the gospel is the word of God that produces the new birth. The term born again here is a passive participle again indicating those who experience it are acted upon. This passive participle is used again in the third chapter of John and the first epistle of John 6 times, and it is passive in every instance of the NT i have looked at. The clear teaching is that being born into this world or the kingdom of God is an act of God. Babies don’t give birth to themselves. See also James 1:18, John 1:12,13, 1 Thessalonians 1:5, 2 Thessalonians 2:14 2. The new birth results in faith. John 3:3 Jesus answered him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is nborn oagain2 he cannot psee the kingdom of God. The seeing mentioned here is obviously faith and it is the result of the new birth. 1 John 5:1 - Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God, and everyone who loves the Father loves whoever has been born of him. Again the participle for born is perfect passive, it points to the new birth as occurring prior to the believing. Paul also uses other metaphors for the new birth like new creation Galatians 6:15. circumcision of the heart Romans 2:29, Colossians 2:11. that point to divine agency not human agency in calling, regeneration or whatever you want to call it. 3. Faith is considered a gift. Philippians 1:29 For it has been granted to you that for the sake of Christ you should not only believe in him but also suffer for his sake Ephesians 2:8 For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, According to Daniel Wallace in his Greek grammar the pronoun “this” can refer most likely back to either “grace by faith salvation” or it could have an “adverbial effect” that could be translated “and especially”, this points to faith as a gift. This is most likely from the context, since Paul thinks men are dead and are raised by grace, see 2:5. 4. Grace is an attribute of God that is a sovereign and effective work that results in the salvation of souls in every aspect of their salvation. 2 Timothy 1:9 who saved us and called us to a holy calling, not because of our works but because of his own purpose and grace, which he gave us in Christ Jesus before the ages began, Galatians 1:15 But when he who had set me apart before I was born, and who called me by his grace, 2 Corinthians 12:9 - But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me. Note how Paul in this verse Paul equates grace with the “power”( my power) of God in the first sentence and the “power of Christ”, in the second. 1 Corinthians 15:10 But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace toward me was not in vain. On the contrary, I worked harder than any of them, though it was not I, but the grace of God that is with me. 2 Corinthians 9:8 And God is able to make all grace abound to you, so that having all sufficiency in all things at all times, you may abound in every good work. “God is able” to make grace abound not man. Ephesians 2:5 even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ-by grace you have been saved- Ephesians 3:7 Of this gospel I was made a minister according to the gift of God’s grace, which was given me by the working of his power. Gods grace is transmitted by the “working of his power”. 1 Peter 5:10 And after you have suffered a little while, the God of all grace, who has called you to his eternal glory in Christ, will himself restore, confirm, strengthen, and establish you. 5. Individuals are placed in union with Christ by God and this union encompasses every aspect of their salvation. In each of these passages Paul uses the phrase “in Christ” and attributes this work to God not men. 1 Corinthians 1:30 And because of him you are in Christ Jesus, who became to us wisdom from God, righteousness and sanctification and redemption, This would be a false statement if man placed himself in Christ through his faith. Ephesians 1:3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places, 1 Corinthians 1:4 I give thanks to my God always for you because of the grace of God that was given you in Christ Jesus, Why thank God if man is the cause of his being placed in Christ? 2 Corinthians 1:21 And it is God who establishes us with you in Christ, and has anointed us, See also 2 Timothy 1:9 above Many other arguments could be added to this like predestination, calling, Romans 8:28,29, etc. But this is sufficient for anyone willing to settle with scripture. For those committed to their “ idol free will”as the great Puritan John Owen called it no scripture is ever sufficient.
Being born again IS choosing Christ- wholeheartedly repentance after you are CALLED.
What a Brilliant response to this question.
*_God Bless_*
Once I was blind but now I see. I'm one of the sheep Jesus died for. I love him because he first loved me. Which is why I'm dilligent to make my calling and election sure. Ex Arminian Calvinist.
Thanx, Pastor Steve 🌹🌹🌹
You are very welcome
John 6:44 No one can come to the Son unless the father draws him to me and I will raise him up on the last day. We are chosen before the foundation of World.
arminians and calvinists have played verse ping-pong for centuries. for every proof text you can post, an arminian can toss another and in the end, i feel that christ weeps. i have come to love saying "i don't know. i love christ jesus and want to do his will and obey his commandments." why are there not more people saying and doing that? anyone in here "laying down their lives for brothers?" so "i don't know but do you want to go help the orphans and widows?" p.s. sometimes i wish that only the psalm 23, 131 and james had been the only books to survive.
If Calvinism is true we need no Bible,church or outreach. If we are already predestined to be saved or lost.
AND YOU'RE DRAWN BY THE WORD DING DONG
John 6:45
It is written in the Prophets: ‘They will all be taught by God.’ Everyone who has heard the Father and learned from him comes to me."
Don't worry, Jesus makes it clear. It's for the immediate context, not all people for all time.
@@Rod-Wheeler you're mistaken
This was very helpful thank you
Good summary. We all could stand to keep in mind that TULIP is a reaction to Arminianism. Also I love your greeting. "I hope you're having a great day in Jesus." I've got to use that.
I'll help you out.
I'm against suicide. I was depressed also to suicidal. I almost did suicide as a 5-Point Calvinist. And these scriptures got me more hope.
I became more Arminian now from these scriptures I posted on here. I believe people can fail salvation.
Loving God is wanting to be useful for him much. What if a person could do that much of his time? And I enjoy working from this. People who enjoy working. When it's more likely to be boring to non-Christians.
New American Standard Bible (NASB)
Mark 9:33 (V)They came to Capernaum; and when He was in (W)the house, He began to question them, "What were you discussing on the way?"
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Mark 9:34 But they kept silent, for on the way (X)they had discussed with one another which of them was the greatest.
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Mark 9:35 Sitting down, He called the twelve and said to them, "(Y)If anyone wants to be first, he shall be last of all and servant of all."
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Christian world domination. Why to raise kids Christians. God Son Jesus said similarly to whoever is useful the most is the best merited of the apostles. Useful merit for eternal rewards and competition with other Christians. With God Son Lord Jesus Christ faith teaching, people will want to be useful for the kingdom of Heaven, which usefulness happens on Earth and if any other place. We need to help this world as much as we can!
This text could motivate, supposed to be Christian people, to do all types of usefulness. Chores, volunteering, grade school, high school, college, and work. Good people, this world needs them.
It is probable that most people believe whatever they were first taught about this subject. It seems also probable that Calvinists are diligent to teach their children from a Calvinist perspective. Most Arminians, however, aren’t even aware that there’s a name for that perspective and most Arminians fail to be intentional about encouraging their children to consider the evidence for that view.
While I lean more toward the Arminian view, I think it is unfortunate that many Arminians speak disparagingly about John Calvin. The context in which Calvin developed his theology was a time when almost everybody in Europe had been taught that their destiny depended on remaining on the good side of the local priest. Imagine the sense of relief when Calvin taught them God had made that decision before they were even born!
Even more recently, Calvin’s doctrines have the advantage of absolutely precluding any sort of salvation by works.
For me, not only is salvation only by grace and only through faith but that principle applies to all aspects of salvation: justification, sanctification and glorification. I have been saved (justified)*, I am being saved, (sanctified) and I will be saved (glorified).
There is nothing we can do to earn or deserve God’s forgiveness.
We can no more transform ourselves than an Ethiopian can change his skin or a leopard can change his spots. We can’t be better people by trying to be better, even if we think we can accomplish that “with God’s help”. At the same time, we can give God permission to transform us (take away our selfishness and replace it with his selflessness). He won’t do so without our permission.
The hierarchy of the Roman Church taught, for more than a thousand years, that the institutional Church was the kingdom of God on Earth. Jonathan Edwards (eighteenth century Congregationalist minister in the North American colonies) taught that Jesus would return only after Chrisitian evangelism had resulted in all or nearly all human institutions including civil governments adopting Christian principles. Many progressives continue to operate on the assumption of some version of postmillennialism.
I don’t agree with the dispensationalist/futurist method of interpreting Bible prophecies but I’m an historicist premillennialist who believes Jesus will return at the beginning of the millennium to resurrect the people who have died in faith and take living believers with them to the mansions he has gone to prepare. Which is to say that the kingdom of glory will be inaugurated suddenly and catechismically entirely without our aid. We can enter the kingdom of glory only by grace and only through faith. Jesus can never be the kind of political messiah most traditionalists are expecting.
*and I need that justification every day as symbolized by the continual (sometimes translated “daily”) sacrifices of the symbolic (antitypical) system
I’ve just decided to hold all the views. 😂 I hold a doctorate in this stuff and I figure if He’s a lion and a lamb, I’m just gonna hold all the views and trust in Jesus and do my best. 😂😂😂
I’d love to see you do a video describing your perspective on Van Til and Presuppositional Apologetics. I may be on an island alone, but I believe there’s a way to reconcile Calvinism with Apostolic Pentecostalism, and merge Theologies.
I did years ago, but it wasn’t to in-depth.
@@NewLifeOfAlbanyGa understood
What denomination are you?
Where did you do your theological education?
Do you have a creed or confession of doctrinal beliefs I can look at?
UPCI, yes, Jackson college of ministries, Moody Bible institute, Andersonville theological
@@NewLifeOfAlbanyGa Thanks for the reply. Are you mainstream for your denomination? It seems that you work hard, and are even uncomfortable with, the Arminian precepts you endorse. Have you taken on the vain traditions of men in place of plain biblical exegesis? If you can read RM 9 and really believe God is not Sovereign over salvation (or Ephesians 1 and 2, RM 8, JN 3, JN 6... so many others) then I would challenge - not your intellect, not your sincerity, but your belief. Can you do videos exegeting these passages? Come back to the historic doctrine, dear friend. Believe the Word. Rest in it. Here is a study for you. What is faith and where does it come from? Only the Bible answers these. Good luck and God bless.
Hello brother, though I disagree with you; I appreciate you putting the other view across .
God bless
Amen
Extent and Application.
The offer truly is for whosoever, however salvation is only applied to those who come to Jesus.
Thanks for the explanation. It seems like an enlightenment view placed upon scripture. Too many problems texts with this position and you have to straw man Calvinism to explain Arminianism. The clearest explaination of scripture isn’t necessarily the correct understanding of scripture. But this guy is a great teacher.
Hello sir, are you an Arminian or would you consider yourself more non-denominational who just things many of the points of Arminian are correct? Also what is that book you are reading?
Book by David cloud I think. More of just a Biblical Christian. God bless!
@@NewLifeOfAlbanyGa thanks, wondering if I can get your opinion on a few doctrines.
Do you believe that a true believer can lose their salvation?
Who do you think the elect are?
@@rodgermilner7800 I know I'm a few years late and I'm not the person you're looking for, but as far as your second question, who are the elects? There's a similar word that we see use all the time in the old testament, basically means the same thing. It's God's chosen people.
Did all of God's chosen people get to heaven? No, of course not. There are many Israelites who would have lost out on salvation. Since this seems to be an analogy made by Paul in romans, we must ask who are the elect of the new testament? It seems to differ based on which book you are reading. In much of Romans it seems that the elect are the jews, and now gentiles, who have and will be saved... But the emphasis in Romans is not about all of humanity that will be saved, the emphasis is on the fact that the gentiles were opened up to salvation as well. In Romans and Ephesians, this is what Paul is talking about as the elect.
So basically, "the elect" is a contrasting term with "God's chosen people", and it's in reference to the opening up of gentiles to salvation, through "God's plan" to "unite all creation under Him".
In other words, "the elect" is not a term that should be over speculated on, it's especially not a term meaning that God unconditionally chose everyone who is saved to be saved, it's more reminiscent again of how "God's chosen people " now includes all the believing world, and that this opening up was always part of God's plan.
To get into a deeper discussion about why Paul chose these words, or why God had Paul choose these words, many naysayers and gnostics alike, as well as Jewish Christians, had problems with opening up Christ to the rest of the world. So Paul is constantly bringing up the idea that the opening up of Christ the gentiles was always part of God's plan, not just a scheme to get more followers. Again in both Romans and ephesians, Paul also takes this opportunity to rebuke the Jews of the day because they were acting all high and mighty and exclusionary.
In Romans 9, for instance, which is commonly used calvinist text, if you read the entire chapter you begin to see that Paul is speaking specifically about the Israelites, as if they were Esau, the first born, and that Jacob was an analogy for the gentiles. In ephesians, Paul is speaking to mostly Greek Christians in ephesus, in chapter 1 and 2 Paul speaks to this plan in greater detail, and specifically in the second half of chapter 2 Paul speaks to how the ways of the old Jewish law or done with, that we require a spiritual circumcision, not one of flesh.
We are warned against bickering and fighting in the name of doctrines. Ephesians 4:4-6 is just one Biblical testimony that we are not to fight about doctrine and foolishness, Titus 3:9-10. Why? Because we under the four gospels and the whole of the Word of God are ONE BODY. The Calvinists and the Arminians and the catholics and the whatever else there is who neither added nor subtracted from the Word. Those of us will all stand before God and all from each sect will either be found washed in the blood of the Holy Lamb for our sins or we won't. Do not sit there and argue endlessly about different strengths and proofs of faith. It is ONE faith, ONE god, ONE resurrection, and ONE way.
We are to earnestly contend for the faith obviously, according to Scripture.
it was Elisabeth who first calls Mary the Mother of God first. Luke 1:43 And whence is this to me, that the mother of my (Lord) should come to me?
I love Arminia and Arminian people I am originally from Iran . Iranian people always had good relationships with Arminians for many centuries regardless of the government. Long live Arminia
Arminius was a person.
Jacobus Arminius was a man. Armenia is a country sharing a border, as you know, with Iran. Two vastly different topics. Arminius set forth the idea that man.
Thank you. Nor much academic discussion in Christianity anymore.
What are you reading that from?
IPad
@@NewLifeOfAlbanyGa I meant the content.
on the day of Pentecost - before they repented and believed - the HS regenerated them
You skipped the Armenian version of total depravity which is different than the calvinist one
Interesting
What's the difference if he can't even get the reformed version right?
the day of Pentecost was speaking to believers....was it not? they were already saved weren't they?
No, Acts 2:37
Do one on Amyraldism
Might.
Who's this brotha bernard, where's his video you mentioned
David K Bernard has dozens of vids.
How did Christianity get along before John Calvin ? Theology can create some divisions can it not ?
TERRIBLE. All one big Straw Man! Not what We believe at all!
Huh? Yes it is, on all sides. Your lying.
If you can lose your salvation, one can infer from that you can also gain salvation.
Therefore, you are not only teaching a works salvation, you are also teaching a no hope salvation.
People have to get away from the teachings of Calvanism and Armenianism.
Neither teaches what faith realy is, and both have no eternal security.
Run from both and read your Bible.
You dont need the teachings from either one to explain what is meant in the word of God.
1 John 2:27
But the anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in him.
I understand what your saying. I’ve got a book coming out on what Scripture says. God bless you!
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Thank you for your response.
Do you know what true faith is?
Eternal security is bound up in what faith really is.
1 John 5:13
These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God.
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True faith provides the full assurance of eternal life. If one does not know they have eternal life, they do not have true faith.
So again, do you know what true faith is?
@@DanielJosephPaul Yes
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So then you would have to refute the 5th point of Armenianism.
Both have to be rejected, Armenianism , and Calvanism.
They totally agree on 2 things, that a person can lose their salvation, although the Calvinist says you never really had it if you dont persevere. And two, that faith comes from within a person.
To note as well, they both believe that faith and belief are the same thing, which they are wrong on that also.
Can you do a video on what true faith is?
Or if you have already done one, can you direct me to it please?
Thank you for your time.
@@DanielJosephPaul Well look at it.
Arminianism, (in point 5), teaches that a widow looses her salvation if she commits a sexual sin?
Definitely
@@NewLifeOfAlbanyGa does Hebrews 6 describe someone who has lost their salvation?
Yes@@cal30m1
No ancient church besides the Roman Catholics believed in original sin. What they believed in was ancestral sin. This is not armenianism but it is augustinianism
what book are you reading from?
I don’t remember.
Ephesians 2:1: People who are “dead in trespasses and sins” can’t choose Christ. They must be “made alive” by God.
Just as we have no say in our physical birth, we have no say in our spiritual birth (John 1:13).
Regeneration precedes faith! ✝️
I certainly appreciate your perspective.
Where’s your video on pre faith regeneration
Under the review of a Bro Bernards 3rd book on the history of Christian Doctrine. You should get them. They’re great!
This guy obviously knows what he's talking about; look at all the books he owns!
About 20,000…
@@NewLifeOfAlbanyGa I'd wager that your apartment smells of rich mahogany
Born again, john 3 that Jesus said was known from the old testament, is not the same thing that is happening at Pentecost.
Limited Atonement, so you're saying Jesus took the judgement and wrath of all, yet the majority of those people will be punished again for those same sins. Is that just? both an innocent and guilty man punished for the same sin?
Do you believe Judas will be saved in the end?
How do you understand the verses that speak of. total depravity? No man seeks after God. no man is good. The hear and mind are evil perpetually. These are total depravity verses and shows man doesn't seek after God. If he doesn't seek after God, then without the call of God to come and the Spirit to conviction, a person doesn't have the ability to accept what he doesn't seek.
So are you Calvinist or Arminian?
I would lean more to Arminianism.
What is molinism?
Kind of a middle ground between free will and predestination. I’ve got a video on it.
So Jesus got over charged thought he was Sovereign. Think about it.
Thanks for this video.We can disagree on certain non essentials as some puts it because in one's study of the Bible. Just want to share some thoughts about the conversation between Charles Simeon and John Wesley its in pages 13 and 14 of Evangelism and the Sovereignty of God by J.I.Packer that's has been a blessing to me.At the end of their is this statement "Then Sir with your leave I will put my dagger again;for this all my Calvinism;this my election,my justification by faith,my final perseverance;it in the substance all that I bold and therefore if you please instead of searching out terms and phrases to be a ground of contention between us,we will cordially unite in those things wherein we agree".
Interesting!
Disingenuous representation at best of the 5 pts of Calvinism
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Arminianism affirms that only by the grace of God can mankind respond to God (ie, by prevenient grace).
Arminians disagree on apostasy.
Many arminians affirm the doctrine of middle knowledge (ie, molinism).
Well, he could have just come out and said Calvinism is COMMUNIST, but that would have been a bit harsh.
Communists rewrite history and deny Freewill like calvinists.
Pastor Steve Waldron , I do not believe in all you are saying about Arminianism is true. I do not believe we have free will, no were in the Bible does it say we have free will. Romans 8:29 For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.30 Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified. I believe in Paul Gospel of Grace given to Him by Jesus. Ephesians 3:2 If ye have heard of the dispensation of the grace of God which is given me to you-ward:3 How that by revelation he made known unto me the mystery; (as I wrote afore in few words, Romans 2:16 In the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ according to my gospel. I believe in once saved always saved. because we sealed by Holy Spirit Ephesians 1:13 In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise, If you are saved you not under the Law Romans 6:14 For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace. Paul said we are under civil law in Romans 13 you can read it. If you break the civil law that is a crime not a sin and you are called a criminal. Paul said we not to do that. Paul Gospel of Grace is difference from Gospel in first part of Acts. In Acts 5 Ananias, and Sapphira were saved under the Law that why they were punished. Galatians 2:16 Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law: for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified. Galatians 3:11 But that no man is justified by the law in the sight of God, it is evident: for, The just shall live by faith.12 And the law is not of faith: Please show me were I am wrong.
It is more assumed that we have free will as you read Scripture.
@@NewLifeOfAlbanyGa if we have free will it should be easy to prove it, but it is no were to be found in the Bible. We know we have Grace and it is free, if we only believe. Ephesians 2:8 For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: 9 Not of works, lest any man should boast.10 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.
@@ST52655 We are adopted by the Lord, a person can not adopt themselves. Ephesians 1:5 Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will, Galatians 4:5 To redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons. Acts 2:39 For the promise is unto you, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call. Acts 10:41 Not to all the people, but unto witnesses chosen before God, even to us, who did eat and drink with him after he rose from the dead. Romans 8:28 And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.29 For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.30 Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified.
Your lost buddy!
That’s not for you to decide.
The Synod of Dort is where Calvinism really went off the rails to reck itself as a heresy.
Martin Luther said free will was a thing that existed in name only, and he was right. Today the Church believes in the “three yard line gospel”. Jesus gets the ball down to the three yard line but he is unable to score the winning touchdown so he has to hand it off to you and your freewill. The three yard line gospel and its underlying premise of free will is destroyed in the following five arguments.
1. The gospel is the powerful word of God that saves and results in the new birth.
Acts 11:14
he will declare to you a message by which zyou will be saved, you and all your household.
The word for saved is a passive participle it indicates the message will save and the recipients of the message will be acted upon by this message.
1 Peter 1:22-24
since you have been born again, enot of perishable seed but of imperishable, through fthe living and abiding word of God; 24 for
g“All flesh is like grass
and all its glory like the flower of grass.
The grass withers,
and the flower falls,
25 hbut the word of the Lord remains forever.”
And this word iis the good news that was preached to you.
In this passage the gospel is the word of God that produces the new birth. The term born again here is a passive participle again indicating those who experience it are acted upon. This passive participle is used again in the third chapter of John and the first epistle of John 6 times, and it is passive in every instance of the NT i have looked at. The clear teaching is that being born into this world or the kingdom of God is an act of God. Babies don’t give birth to themselves.
See also James 1:18, John 1:12,13, 1 Thessalonians 1:5, 2 Thessalonians 2:14
2. The new birth results in faith.
John 3:3 Jesus answered him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is nborn oagain2 he cannot psee the kingdom of God.
The seeing mentioned here is obviously faith and it is the result of the new birth.
1 John 5:1 - Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God, and everyone who loves the Father loves whoever has been born of him.
Again the participle for born is perfect passive, it points to the new birth as occurring prior to the believing. Paul also uses other metaphors for the new birth like new creation Galatians 6:15. circumcision of the heart Romans 2:29, Colossians 2:11. that point to divine agency not human agency in calling, regeneration or whatever you want to call it.
3. Faith is considered a gift.
Philippians 1:29 For it has been granted to you that for the sake of Christ you should not only believe in him but also suffer for his sake
Ephesians 2:8 For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God,
According to Daniel Wallace in his Greek grammar the pronoun “this” can refer most likely back to either “grace by faith salvation” or it could have an “adverbial effect” that could be translated “and especially”, this points to faith as a gift. This is most likely from the context, since Paul thinks men are dead and are raised by grace, see 2:5.
4. Grace is an attribute of God that is a sovereign and effective work that results in the salvation of souls in every aspect of their salvation.
2 Timothy 1:9 who saved us and called us to a holy calling, not because of our works but because of his own purpose and grace, which he gave us in Christ Jesus before the ages began,
Galatians 1:15 But when he who had set me apart before I was born, and who called me by his grace,
2 Corinthians 12:9 - But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me.
Note how Paul in this verse Paul equates grace with the “power”( my power) of God in the first sentence and the “power of Christ”, in the second.
1 Corinthians 15:10 But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace toward me was not in vain. On the contrary, I worked harder than any of them, though it was not I, but the grace of God that is with me.
2 Corinthians 9:8 And God is able to make all grace abound to you, so that having all sufficiency in all things at all times, you may abound in every good work. “God is able” to make grace abound not man.
Ephesians 2:5 even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ-by grace you have been saved-
Ephesians 3:7 Of this gospel I was made a minister according to the gift of God’s grace, which was given me by the working of his power. Gods grace is transmitted by the “working of his power”.
1 Peter 5:10 And after you have suffered a little while, the God of all grace, who has called you to his eternal glory in Christ, will himself restore, confirm, strengthen, and establish you.
5. Individuals are placed in union with Christ by God and this union encompasses every aspect of their salvation.
In each of these passages Paul uses the phrase “in Christ” and attributes this work to God not men.
1 Corinthians 1:30 And because of him you are in Christ Jesus, who became to us wisdom from God, righteousness and sanctification and redemption, This would be a false statement if man placed himself in Christ through his faith.
Ephesians 1:3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places,
1 Corinthians 1:4 I give thanks to my God always for you because of the grace of God that was given you in Christ Jesus, Why thank God if man is the cause of his being placed in Christ?
2 Corinthians 1:21 And it is God who establishes us with you in Christ, and has anointed us,
See also 2 Timothy 1:9 above
Many other arguments could be added to this like predestination, calling, Romans 8:28,29, etc. But this is sufficient for anyone willing to settle with scripture. For those committed to their “ idol free will”as the great Puritan John Owen called it no scripture is ever sufficient.
Is this satire?
Nope...
It's interesting though!
IMHO
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Articles_of_Remonstrance
Do one on Amyraldism