Calvinism and a Humbleness that Leads to Hell
The Sovereign Lord is my salvation from beginning to end and everything in between. I could not keep myself one day without Him. He is my Saviour, Lord and Keeper! He has promised to perfect all that which concerns me and it is HE that works in me to will and to DO of His good pleasure according to the scriptures.
He says in the gospel of John that…”All that the Father gives me I shall lose NONE but shall raise him up at the last day! Praise His name.
Sandi
Sandi,
Like all Calvinists, you dress up evil in a “humbleness” that totally depends on God and gives Him ALL the credit for your Christian walk as well as salvation. Like the “wicked lazy” servant in Matthew 25:14-30, you propose to merely give back what Christ has given you. You hide the gospel of “God does it all” in the ground for fear that anything you do in your Christian life is an attempt to fulfill the law of sin and death rather than walking in obedience to the law of the Spirit of life. You do not see yourself as free from the law of sin and death; therefore, your true role of loving Christ is relegated to the Holy Spirit. Like the wicked lazy servant, there is fear in your love because you are still under the law of sin and death.
Therefore, you are not a true friend of Christ, or a brother, but a parasite; viz, in the words of Calvinist Paul David Tripp we are only to “rest and feed on the living Christ.” That’s what a Calvinist is: a parasite that only “rests and feeds on Christ” instead of offering one’s body as a living sacrifice. Christ died for you, and you offer nothing in return but your blemished totally depraved self that is still under the law of sin and death. You are not free to…”if you love me, keep my commandments.” You must make those commands to the Holy Spirit because you are still under the law of sin and death.
Worse yet, like all Calvinists, and antithetical to love, you rejoice in this evil. As you plunge the depths of your own depravity (mortification), you experience the joy which is a gift from heaven (vivification). The doctrine of mortification and vivification is official and well documented Reformed orthodoxy. Clearly, it is a joy that results in the reality of our own depravity, and makes God a rewarder of such, but love “does not delight in evil.”
Granted, there is to be fear in sanctification as we look for the redemption of the body, but you make that the same as a fear of judgment in regard to justification because you are still under the law of sin and death, and not freed by the perfect law of liberty. You are not free to love Christ as a “doer of the word.” Your “love” is therefore full of fear.
I beseech all Calvinists to cry out to Jesus and affirm that His death has ended the law of sin and death, and freed us to love Him with the Holy Spirit as our counselor resulting in a life that is built upon a rock.
paul
Paul's Passing Thoughts 
Reblogged this on Clearcreek Chapel Watch.
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Paul that was quite a tyrrade!
I don’t think you really understand
the Sovereignty of God …it
does not mean we sit back and
do nothing ! We do have a responsibility
but we do not run around and try
to establish our own righteousness,
We rest on the finished work of Christ!
Jesus said without Me you can do
nothing but the Word says also that
we can do all things through Christ!
I will say again salvation is totally
of the Lord, not because I am
humble or trying to be humble BUT
because the bible says so.
And Paul contrary to what you say I
am not under the law of sin and death
because I know that the Law of the
Spirit of Life has set me free!
Romans 8:1
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Sandi,
Your very reply condemns you. You think it is possible for a Christian to establish their own righteousness for justification. If you really believed the following: “I am no longer under the law of sin and death,” you would know that’s impossible. And, “We rest on the finished work of Christ!” For justification, not sanctification. Your call for rest in sanctification shows clearly that you believe that you are still under the law of sin and death and it is not ended. Otherwise, no rest at all is needed in sanctification. Rest and love are mutually exclusive. Calvin’s false gospel is exactly why there is way too much rest in “Christianity.” Furthermore, Christ told the apostles that they would not be able to do their apostolic work without Him, that wasn’t a plenary statement concerning sanctification, and notice how you contradict yourself with, “it does not mean we sit back and do nothing!” and then you rip said text out of context to say exactly that!”
Also, notice what else you say:”I will say again salvation is totally of the Lord,” ie., salvation (justification) still continues in sanctification. Your Reformed clarion call is “salvation of the Lord” in sanctification. As John Piper states accordingly: the gospel continues to save us perpetually as Christians. Clearly, justification is not finished.
Now I challenge you: what exactly are you to “do” in sanctification that is NOT a work that establishes your OWN righteousness? State the Christian practice that prevents this. Good luck.
paul
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Here Sandi, I made a chart to help you with this:
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,,,and by the way, you mean Romans 8:2 which also by the way is not saying we are set free from the law of sin and death to rest and feed on Jesus, it means we are set free to obey the law of the Spirit of life in order to serve Christ. The rest of the chapter makes this abundantly clear.
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I don’t believe in “luck” Paul. I know WHOM I have believed. I actually think you just like a debate.
I rest my case now.
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“”We do have a responsibility
but we do not run around and try
to establish our own righteousness,
We rest on the finished work of Christ!”
HOw does that work in practical application of every day life? Navel gazing?
You start with the typical premise (Muslims do too) of “Sovereignty” defined as determinist. But the irony is your god is not “Sovereign” over HIs own Sovereignty. He has to force. He can have no real love relationship with His Creatures because everything was already decided for them. You think you are elevating Christ with your deterministic religion but in effect, you are blaspheming Him.
The problem is your filter is so tight you most likely will never see it becasue the cliches and platitudes of determinism are so ingrained. Islam has the same problem.
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