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Anyone want to answer this Arminian\'s Lame Questions?
I found this on one of those left-wing psychopathic arminian websites full of bizarre claims like "Calvinists are going to Hell" and other stuff like that. If anyone cares to respond to these, I'll email the web administrator with some answers. The fact that it is written to "extreme" Calvinists makes me laugh. Alot.
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Questions For Extreme Calvinists
The following questions were written by Michael J. Penfold, Proprietor of Penfold Book and Bible House in England.
1. Why do we preach "œrepent or perish" when the non-elect can´t repent and the elect can´t perish?
2. How can God hold the non-elect responsible for "œnot believing" and damn them for it, when He deliberately did not give them the faith to enable them to believe in the first place?
How can God fault them for disobeying the gospel if they are totally unable to obey it?
3. If Christ has already made an efficacious atonement for the sins of an elect person, is that elect person actually lost during the period prior to their being saved?
4. During the period before an elect person gets saved, how are they condemned already (for not believing) when their unbelief (which is a sin) has already been paid for by Christ on the cross?
5. If repentance is a gift only given to the elect, what did Jesus mean when He said that some of the people in hell would have repented if they had had the same opportunity as the people to whom He preached?
6. Why does the Spirit of God strive and convict some sinners who later prove, by dying and going to hell, that they were non-elect? What is the purpose of such movings of the Spirit?
7. If the following is true:
a. John Smith is deliberately foreordained to commit sin
b. Is hated by God before He is born
c. Is predestined to go to hell before he is born
d. Cannot repent because God deliberately refuses to give him the gift of repentance
e. Cannot believe because God deliberately refuses to give him the gift of faith
f. Was not, is not and never will be loved by God in the slightest degree
g. Was deliberately excluded from the group of people Jesus died for on the cross so that salvation was intentionally and for ever put completely out of his reach:
Then, how is it John Smith´s fault that he will end up burning forever in the lake of fire?
Fixed the title
[Edited on 20-10-2004 by puritansailor]
I found this on one of those left-wing psychopathic arminian websites full of bizarre claims like "Calvinists are going to Hell" and other stuff like that. If anyone cares to respond to these, I'll email the web administrator with some answers. The fact that it is written to "extreme" Calvinists makes me laugh. Alot.
____________________________________________
Questions For Extreme Calvinists
The following questions were written by Michael J. Penfold, Proprietor of Penfold Book and Bible House in England.
1. Why do we preach "œrepent or perish" when the non-elect can´t repent and the elect can´t perish?
2. How can God hold the non-elect responsible for "œnot believing" and damn them for it, when He deliberately did not give them the faith to enable them to believe in the first place?
How can God fault them for disobeying the gospel if they are totally unable to obey it?
3. If Christ has already made an efficacious atonement for the sins of an elect person, is that elect person actually lost during the period prior to their being saved?
4. During the period before an elect person gets saved, how are they condemned already (for not believing) when their unbelief (which is a sin) has already been paid for by Christ on the cross?
5. If repentance is a gift only given to the elect, what did Jesus mean when He said that some of the people in hell would have repented if they had had the same opportunity as the people to whom He preached?
6. Why does the Spirit of God strive and convict some sinners who later prove, by dying and going to hell, that they were non-elect? What is the purpose of such movings of the Spirit?
7. If the following is true:
a. John Smith is deliberately foreordained to commit sin
b. Is hated by God before He is born
c. Is predestined to go to hell before he is born
d. Cannot repent because God deliberately refuses to give him the gift of repentance
e. Cannot believe because God deliberately refuses to give him the gift of faith
f. Was not, is not and never will be loved by God in the slightest degree
g. Was deliberately excluded from the group of people Jesus died for on the cross so that salvation was intentionally and for ever put completely out of his reach:
Then, how is it John Smith´s fault that he will end up burning forever in the lake of fire?
Fixed the title
[Edited on 20-10-2004 by puritansailor]