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God has given Jesus some men, but who are they? Are theythose who are sovereignly elected or are they all who believethe gospel? John 6:40 says, “And this is the will of him thatsent me, that every one which seeth the Son, and believeth onhim, may have everlasting life: and I will raise him up at thelast day.” John 1:12 and 3:14-16 and many other passagesteach the same thing.2 essalonians 2:13-14--“But we are bound to givethanks alway to God for you, brethren beloved of the Lord,because God hath from the beginning chosen you tosalvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief ofthe truth: Whereunto he called you by our gospel, to theobtaining of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.”is passage says the believers at essalonica were chosenby God to salvation. What it does not say, though, is the basisfor this choosing. e passage does not say that the basis forthe choosing was God’s sovereign will apart from anythingHe foresaw. John 6:40 says, “And this is the will of him thatsent me, that every one which seeth the Son, and believeth onhim, may have everlasting life: and I will raise him up at thelast day.” According to this verse, the basis for God’s electionis man’s faith.e passage says the believers at essalonica were chosen“through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth.”e Calvinist doctrine of Irresistible Grace claims that thismeans the Spirit of God sovereignly and irresistibly drewthese believers to faith, but one must read that into thepassage. It is simpler and more scriptural to say that it is theHoly Spirit who enlightens (Jn. 1:9), convicts (Jn. 16:8), anddraws (Jn. 12:32) sinners and that those who believe the truthare saved.2 ess. 2:13-14 also says the believers at essalonica werecalled, but this calling is not said to have been sovereign andirresistible. It says, rather, that they were called by the gospel.is is the same thing that we see in Mark 16:15-16. e116
gospel is to be preached to all men and those who believe aresaved.e Calvinist doctrines of Sovereign Election andIrresistible Grace are refuted earlier in this same passage.Verses 8-12 describe the coming of the Lord to destroy theantichrist and to judge those who believe on him.“And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lordshall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroywith the brightness of his coming: Even him, whose comingis aer the working of Satan with all power and signs andlying wonders, and with all deceivableness of unrighteousnessin THEM THAT PERISH; BECAUSE THEY RECEIVEDNOT THE LOVE OF THE TRUTH, THAT THEY MIGHTBE SAVED. And for this cause God shall send them strongdelusion, that they should believe a lie: at they ALLMIGHT BE DAMNED WHO BELIEVED NOT THETRUTH, but had pleasure in unrighteousness” (2 ess.2:8-12).Here we see that men can receive the truth and be saved butthey can also reject it and therefore perish. ey do notperish because they are sovereignly elected to perish butbecause they do not believe the truth.Acts 16:14--“And a certain woman named Lydia, a sellerof purple, of the city of yatira, which worshipped God,heard us: whose heart the Lord opened, that she attendedunto the things which were spoken of Paul.”No person can be saved unless the Lord opens his or herheart. is is not a Calvinist doctrine but a doctrine that allBible believers understand and believe.To say that God opened Lydia’s heart so that she attendedunto the things of Christ is not to say that God has preselectedonly a certain number of sinners to be saved. It isalso not to say that God does not attempt to save the nonelect.It is also not to say that Lydia was Irresistibly Called or117
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A Summary of TULIP TheologyTotal De
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Irresistible GraceGod’s call to t
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either of them on Calvinism (or on
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that it is man’s duty to believe
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Central Errors of Calvinism1. Calvi
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objective grace and subjective grac
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How can these seemingly contradicto
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the truth.’ Note that ‘sanctifi
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God spoke to Cain and urged him not
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Calvinism assigns preset definition
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he is totally depraved...” (p. 13
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e order is clear. God calls men to
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as it is written, Behold, I lay in
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THEIR EYES HAVE THEY CLOSED; lest t
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sinners to repent and believe or pe
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Let us labour therefore to enter in
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Prayer can even change God’s mind
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Spurgeon warned about creating theo
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the plain teaching of God’s Word.
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