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It's important, when thinking 'God's thoughts after Him' to borrow from Augustine, to think theologically. The issue most Reformed Christians have with Arminian and other positions is the emphasis on man. The humanistic underpinnings of non-calvinist opinions remind me of this old clip.
When you read Revelation 2:20-21 immediately you think of man (ME), your understanding of the passage begins and ends with man (ME).
Classic biblical doctrine includes the ideas of God's eternality, that God exists outside of time and that God does not 'learn' but 'knows' all things (omniscience).
Can we agree that scripture teaches that God is not affected by time, that He is eternal and doesn't actually 'wait' on anything? That God doesn't 'learn?'
Can we also agree that scripture uses anthropomorphisms to communicate the decretive will of God?
If not, no need to continue this discussion, we will never agree. It's often not an issue of proof texting wars, which is what you want to do, but presuppositions. Your god looks more like you - the God of the Bible is utterly different.
Yours in the Lord,
jm
I never can just get a straight answer from Calvinists on that question. Of course Jesus knew the outcome ahead of time but on judgement day Jezebel will have no excuse because she was able to repent, otherwise she would be able to put the blame on God as to why she didn’t repent. The implication here is that Jezebel was capable of repentance but despite being able to repent she chose not to which destroys Calvin’s doctrines of total depravity, by his definition, and irresistible grace. Don’t get me wrong man is totally deprived in that he is born with a sinful nature cannot do anything to earn his salvation, but man is absolutely capable of repenting and turning to God upon hearing the gospel because of the power of the gospel being God’s calling to man. The gospel does contain the power to provoke a reaction in us to repent.
“For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek.”
Romans 1:16 NASB
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