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Anyone have good arguments against Calvinism.

You have surety because God's promises are true.

It's just that. Are God's promises true? Yes...

If a person is drawn and believes then they're also chosen and since the choosing belongs to God you don't have the question why me and not the person to my right or left, you just are grateful you were chosen in unmerited Grace.

It's about having full faith and trust in God and not in yourself.
That only works in a general sense, but doesn't live up to scrutiny. Perseverance of the saints doesn't hold if you don't know whether you were one of the elect until after all is said and done. So the only way to have assurance is to not question your own election, and by that I don't mean "why me?" But "Am I?" As there is nothing that separates the elect from the non-elect except God's "inscrutable" will there is no way that one can know they truly are part of the elect, or if tomorrow they're going to wake up and find that God was only allowing them to fool themselves.

That is not even to begin talking about the issue of God becoming the author of sin under Calvinism and what that says about the trustworthiness of God's promises to begin with.
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Progressive Covenentalism

Have you read/watched any N.T. Wright?

The New Testament has various tensions in its eschatological visions that can't be easily reduced to one, unified, flat narrative. Many American Evangelicals also struggle with Realized Eschatology, even though it's a prominent part of the Gospel of John, and also present quietly in Paul's epistles (though American Evangelicals aren't necessarily used to noticing it- Paul's eschatology has often been read in ways that are compatible with American premillenialism).
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Minnesota says government agencies must ‘justify’ hiring white men

So if you don't have any women in your office and there are two applicants for a job who are both equally qualified, then it's proposed that you hire the woman over the man. This horrifies you?
It doesn't horrify me that such would be considered unlawful under the Civil Rights Act.
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As Texas Flood Deaths Rise, Officials Blast Faulty Forecast by National Weather Service

When a reporter demanded to know why the summer camps along the Guadalupe River weren’t evacuated before its waters reached their deadly peak on July 4, Rob Kelly, the highest-ranking local official, had a simple answer: “No one knew this kind of flood was coming.”

Why not? Kerr County, Texas, had lots of history to go on — as Kelly went on to explain: “We have floods all the time. This is the most dangerous river valley in the United States.” The National Weather Service had even brought in extra staff that night. Most important, the service had issued three increasingly dire warnings early that morning — at 1:14 a.m., 4:03 a.m. and 6:06 a.m.

What Kelly didn’t mention, but which has since become well known, is that the Weather Service employee whose job it was to make sure those warnings got traction — Paul Yura, the long-serving meteorologist in charge of “warning coordination” — had recently taken an unplanned early retirement amid cuts pushed by the so-called Department of Government Efficiency. He was not replaced.

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Is it important for Children to be safe and for justice to be served?

I doubt it. Regardless, the government should leave the Church alone. Separation of Church and state works both ways.
Should the government be allowed to investigate crimes that happen in a church? Say, someone stealing someone else's wallet.
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Pastoral approach to ...

I do not know what sub-forum this should be in ... but read carefully and there is a theological matter here, it is what is the pastoral approach that matches your doctrinal perspective best.

substitute something important that comes to mind where the paragraph below says "in these situations", do not tell us what you had in mind, commenting on the paragraph below is the matter in discussion - do you agree or ...

Pastoral care in these situations is not about offering easy answers. It’s about being Christ’s presence—gentle, patient, and faithful. The Church’s role is not to coerce but to console, not to condemn but to carry burdens alongside the wounded.

Yes, we can let Job's friends be our guide. They were a comforting presence and then they opened their mouths with answers, and it all went south, smh.
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Minnesota County law enforcement team seizes nearly 900 pounds of meth in Minneapolis

What? I didn’t know that Al Capone was a bank robber!?
Capone famously did hang out in St. Paul when things got hot, but I think I should have said it was Karpis and Barker who robbed the Northwestern National Bank. That bank was hit MANY times. It was a way too easy target. The MO was to hit the bank on the east bank of the Mississippi still in Minneapolis and drive east into St. Paul about a mile away through my old neighborhood to St. Paul. St. Paul was a refuge when things got too hot for the gangstas in Chicago, and they didn't allow Minneapolis police in St. Paul.

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Is God a do as I say not as I do God?

Yes all went to Sheol but not all went to Hades. Hades was specifically for the wicked whereas Abraham’s Bosom was specifically for the righteous. And Jesus went and preached to people who had died in and before the flood. It doesn’t say anything about those who died after the flood.

And you still haven’t demonstrated that God’s plan is to save those who refuse to cooperate with Him.
God is long suffering he can wait as long as it takes for every human to come into agreement with what Jesus has done, its not our body that is " saved" but us our true self, and that is eternal.
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So far, at least nine (now ~40) (now >70) judges, including Trump appointees, have called a halt to Trump executive actions

More judges out of control. This one, violating the ruling of the Supreme Court.
Let me quote it again for you.

the Supreme Court... [kept] intact the ability of plaintiffs to seek a widespread block of the order through class action lawsuits, which is what happened Thursday in New Hampshire.
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What Do You Say When Kids Ask About Dinosaurs?

We cannot know all the ways that God creates, but we can have fun learning science in the light of faith.


Painting of a late Jurassic scene in northern Germany, showing several iguanodons and an adult and a juvenile specimen of the sauropod Europasaurus holgeri.
Painting of a late Jurassic scene in northern Germany, showing several iguanodons and an adult and a juvenile specimen of the sauropod Europasaurus holgeri. (photo: Gerhard Boeggemann, / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 2.5)

Suppose you catechize your children properly and teach them all about Adam and Eve, the Garden of Eden and original sin. Suppose you sit on the sofa one Sunday evening, read the Bible with them and explain how God created all of the plants and animals.

On Monday morning, they return to their science classes and learn about fossils and dinosaurs, which have sparked an interest and led them to browse the Internet for more information. It’s not like dinosaurs are taboo or anything. Kids love dinosaurs! Eventually, they ask the obvious question.

“So, Mom, I have been wondering: Did the dinosaurs live before or after Adam and Eve?”

You open your mouth to answer and catch yourself mid-breath, as you consider the path of reasoning. Well, that little question is mighty loaded, isn’t it? You tread carefully.

If the answer is that the dinosaurs lived before Adam and Eve, then it follows that all words and sentences in the first three chapters of Genesis are not to be taken literally. Dinosaurs are believed to have dominated the earth for more than 100 million years, first appearing more than 200 million years ago in the Triassic Period and reigning during the Jurassic Period — until about 60-70 million years ago, at the end of the Cretaceous Period, when they went extinct.
Don't send your kids to public schools !
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Multiple immigration sweeps reported across Los Angeles, with a tense standoff/protest downtown; SEIU union leader arrested

Los Angeles-adjacent, but

Federal agents clash with protesters during ICE raid at Southern California farm

The incident occurred outside of an agricultural farm along Laguna Road in the Camarillo area of Ventura County.
Local news seemed to show a dozen or more people handcuffed, probably detained at the farm site. The farm was a marijuana grow as was the other raid further north.

The agitator side of things went a bit more feral as the feds headed out. Rocks thrown breaking windows, and cars briefly used to impede traffic.
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An Evil Spirit from the Lord

It appears that Job's knowledge of God has been derived solely from observation of creation, not from direct revelation, prior prophesy, or scripture. God never refers to any prior promises to patriarchs, or even to Adam. Rather, God refers to the wonders of creation that Job could have seen or heard about even a continent away from the Hebrew patriarchs.

In this way, Job testifies to Psalm 19, Acts 15, and Romans 1: That God reveals Himself sufficiently in creation itself so that no man has an excuse not to acknowledge His existence and essential virtue.

But Job goes a step further, and this may be the salvationally essential step: He recognizes that he cannot reach God on his own, but needs a mediator who can "lay hands on us both."

Job doesn't know the name of Jesus, but Job knows he needs Jesus.
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WHY WATER BAPTISM WILL DISAPPEAR AND THEN REAPPEAR !!

And what saddens me is this of Acts 2;38 is what is written , be baptized. ( no water here , Hydor }. in the name of of Jesus. Christ for the forgiveness. of sins and you will receive the GIFT of the Holy Spirit. !!

# 1. The Greek for Water /. hydro. , is Not in the Greek Text

# 2 And Acts was Witten to Israel in Acts 3:36 Therefore , let the House of ISRAEL. firmly know that God HAD made. Him
both. Lord. and Christ , this Jesus whom you have CRUCIFIED , and Luke is NOT taking about the Body of Christ !!

dan p
"Water" doesn't need to be in the Greek text.
There was no other way to get baptized, besides with with water.
It is what John used, unto repentance, (and remission of sins).
Nothing changed between John's and Peter's baptisms, other than using Jesus' name during the rite.
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No person can come to Christ by their own freewill !

WHAT in the world does demons believing or not believing in Jesus have to do with the argument? I didn't bring that up --you did. I brought up the difference between mere intellectual assent and salvific faith, and you want to make it sound like I'm talking about Demons. Wow.
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What Type of Salvation Is James Talking About? – Grace Evangelical Society

What is sad is that you believe James is telling people what to do to be saved. If i am telling people how to receive God's free gift of Eternal Life, i would never use James. I would never use James is a discussion about Eternal Life salvation.

So with you bringing James into the discussion to begin with, says a lot about your view on Eternal Life salvation.
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ICE arrests one of El Salvador’s “Top 100 Most Wanted” hiding in Nebraska


There has to be a better way. Didn't Reagan grant citizenship to those who had been here a certain amount of time (IRCA of 1986)? We need something like that and then focus on border control and a more efficient immigration system. Ripping families apart is terrible no matter which president does it. We can do things in a smart, humane way, and actually make America great. This is stupid and mean.
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