Posted on 07/30/2014 8:38:54 AM PDT by fishtank
A Final Adios from DrSteveJ
From ksen | 07/30/2004 2:04:11 AM PDT read
DrSteveJ has finally used the last of his nine lives this evening. He has been banned, not suspended, for posting an NOAA gif.
Anyway, he has asked that you all be notified and told
Adios on his behalf.
If you need to email him he can be reached at
____@yahoo.com
Well folks, another one bites the dust.
-ksen
CC: GRPL, Canticle of Deborah
That particular sermon preached against what Arminians claimed about free will.
It does not say that Spurgeon says man has no free will, just that the the Arminian view of free will is unBiblical. I agree with Spurgeon.
I think you, not intentionally, selected a portion of a Spurgeon sermon to support your view, which is O.K.
However, it is very hard to reconcile that particular excerpt with Spurgeon’s writing on the Baptist Confession of Faith; all four parts of it.
I don’t normally post an entire sermon simply because of space. Sometimes this is challenging as people like Augustine, Calvin, and Spurgeon can be very verbose. But I do try to include my links so that others may read the article in its entirety to ensure that what I’m stating is correct and not out of context.
Spurgeon does not say man doesn’t have a will. He would disagree (and has on a number of occasions) that the will is free to make choices. Given a choice between heaven and hell, man will always choose hell-100% of the time. This, by definition, is not free and shows a greater problem with our hearts. This is what the confession and Spurgeon are saying; we will never choose heaven on our own. Spurgeon is in complete harmony with the Baptist Confession which states that a man cannot come to God through any power of his own. A man can only come if the Spirit of God draws that man to Himself.
I find most Protestant intuitively understands and personally believes this. When asked how they were saved, they will answer somewhere down in their testimony that “God saved them.” either through some sort of circumstance or event. But for some reason this concept seems to be difficult to understand when applying it to someone else. We seem to think that if uncle Albert would simply confess he would be saved. What we don’t understand that uncle Albert, on his own accord, will never ask Christ into his heart. No amount of pleading or altar calls will ever change that. God has to move uncle Albert’s heart and, it may just be that altar call is what God uses to bring uncle Albert to Him. In Moses’ case it was a burning bush. In Samuel’s case it was a voice in the temple. Everyone is different and unique, but we all come the same way-through His Spirit who moves our hearts.
It isn’t what we do for God. It’s what God does for us. This is the love of God.
I miss Miss Cleo.
Thanks for the reminders about Billy Graham.
He was flawed, to say the least.
Why people have to elevate him to some kind of sainthood is beyond me.
Thanks,
Free will is the doctrine of Ayn Rand and the music group ‘Rush’.
It’s not Biblical.
No one is “free” - we are either slaves of sin or slaves to God.
God does ‘free’ us from hell and sin, however (to complete the figures of speech).
We still lurk in the shadows, peeking in from time to time...
Good grief...why would I darken that doorway again?!? :)
He's not watching TV, that's for sure.
Ditto.
He took verbal evisceration to heights I'd never seen before.
It was inspirational.
Because it's there maybe...and so are we. Don't wan to make it too easy for them, eh?
How was Sinkspur a fraud?
IIRC, he claimed to be a Catholic Deacon. He was not.
Rivero (and the people he fooled into following his conspiracies) were dangerous.
The guy was a fraud from the word go. He would use his claimed previous employment with NASA as a source of authority on aerospace and technical issues.
He worked for NASA as a graphic artist.
Ah. And Askel5.
I learned a lot from Herman the Cherusker; somehow I think he is still around.
And faith matters, Sioban, SmedleyButler
Yes. Patent and his EWTN posts.
Do you know that I once wrote and obituary to OWK?
GOOD TO HEAR FROM YOU FRU
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