"A Final Adios from DrSteveJ" - It's Been Ten Years to the Day

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[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

[HarleyD]

And what would that be?

It has already been proved beyond all controversy that free-will is nonsense. Freedom cannot belong to will any more than ponderability can belong to electricity. They are altogether different things. Free agency we may believe in, but free-will is simply ridiculous. The will is well known by all to be directed by the understanding, to be moved by motives, to be guided by other parts of the soul, and to be a secondary thing. Philosophy and religion both discard at once the very thought of free-will; and I will go as far as Martin Luther, in that strong assertion of his, where he says, "If any man doth ascribe aught of salvation, even the very least, to the free-will of man, he knoweth nothing of grace, and he hath not learnt Jesus Christ aright." It may seem a harsh sentiment; but he who in his soul believes that man does of his own free-will turn to God, cannot have been taught of God, for that is one of the first principles taught us when God begins with us, that we have neither will nor power, but that he gives both; that he is "Alpha and Omega" in the salvation of men.

Charles Spurgeon-"Free Will-A Slave"

[SeaHawkFan]

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.

[HarleyD]

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.

[Jeff Chandler]

I miss Miss Cleo.

[fishtank]

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.

[fishtank]

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).

[Frumanchu]

I wonder what happened to a lot of those folks...

We still lurk in the shadows, peeking in from time to time...

[Frumanchu]

Can't be. The person in question swore he would never participate in Calvinist threads again as it distracts from spreading the Gospel.

[Frumanchu]

Good grief...why would I darken that doorway again?!? :)

[kanawa]

Frantzie...where have ye gone?

He's not watching TV, that's for sure.

[kanawa]

I miss OWK.

Ditto.
He took verbal evisceration to heights I'd never seen before.
It was inspirational.

[Calvinist_Dark_Lord]

Good grief...why would I darken that doorway again?!? :)

Because it's there maybe...and so are we. Don't wan to make it too easy for them, eh?

[Half Vast Conspiracy]

How was Sinkspur a fraud?

IIRC, he claimed to be a Catholic Deacon. He was not.

[TankerKC]

I miss Michael Rivero

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.

[annalex]

Ah. And Askel5.

[annalex]

I learned a lot from Herman the Cherusker; somehow I think he is still around.

[Salvation]

And faith matters, Sioban, SmedleyButler

[annalex]

Yes. Patent and his EWTN posts.

[annalex]

Do you know that I once wrote and obituary to OWK?

[Revelation 911]

GOOD TO HEAR FROM YOU FRU