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Posted by David Carroll
1 Peter 1:2a (NKJV)Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the FatherPaige Patterson, while preaching on this verse at Southeastern Seminary, said:While it may be a healthy exercise to wrestle with the doctrines of election, sovereignty and free will, theological debate must not distract Christians from fulfilling the Great Commission.If you're a more ardent advocate of Calvinism than you are of Jesus as an answer to men's souls—and the way you tell that is by what you talk about most—then you are out of step with the clear teachings of the Word of God.Two thousand years we've been talking about
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Posted by David Carroll
Historians David Bebbington, Mark Noll, and George Rawlyk have identified four characteristic marks of "evangelicalism":
- a stress on conversion,
- a focus on Christ's redeeming work as the core of biblical Christianity,
- an acknowledgment of the Bible as the supreme authority,
- an energetic and personal approach to social engagement and evangelism.
(from Chrisitianity Today)
Posted by David Carroll
Commenters on my previous post on Irresistible Grace raise a good question regarding salvation. Is man responsible or is God? Also, who is the originator of salvation, man or God? Anyway I’ll say up front that the answer in my opinion is that it is God who is both responsible from beginning to end and it is God who originates salvation. Now let’s see if I can be consistent with the idea that man has to make a choice without being compelled to do so irresistibly.I see God as responsible for my salvation because I cannot find heaven without him. In fact I don’t even
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Posted by David Carroll
Irresistible grace is the fourth point of the five points of Calvinism. It means that according to God’s sovereignty, those whom he has chosen from before the foundation of the world will be subject to an irresistible call from God at some point in their lives and will exercise their faith in Him because of His working of grace in them apart from any movement of their own will. (I probably should look that up and get an exact definition but this is my understanding of it anyway.)Let me say up front that I know and hear gladly many preachers
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Posted by David Carroll
I just found out that there has been a bug in this blog’s software preventing adding new comments to entries 
. (Thank’s Millie!) You could reply to an existing comment but not add new comments. But I just fixed it.
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