And as you told us yesterday with more forthrightness than your arminian compadres, you are smarter than the average bear, and thus you believe and have faith in Jesus Christ.
The Reformed disagree with this completely and profoundly as it is 180 degrees from Scripture, and leads one straight back to Rome (synergism over monergism.) But at least you are honest enough to say it out loud.
The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom
So, when you obey God, is it because you are 'smarter' then a Christian that doesn't?
So, why do some Christians choose to grow and others do not?
Why are you a Calvinist and others not?
Must be something in you that led you to believe certain things which others have rejected.
I know,you do not want to think of those things-they just happen!
That is a hilarous oxymoron but it is doubly sad considering the extent of the warmed over slop that is taught in the baptistic arminian culture. The sad fact is that these arminians are enslaved in enlightment philosophy and most don't even realize the catagory they are bound in. Saying that the Word of God is only the words written in the Bible is an example of how the arminian is utterly bound by analytic philosophy dismissing any general revelation and contextual historical revelations, as if God Himself is limited by language. Blasphmemy! That is why their little dispensational god is so mutable. Everytime one of his syllogisms falls apart he needs to reconstruct a new one.
I've become convinced that the only way to reach our enslaved brothers and sisters is by employing the same methodology as God Himself condescended to teach His people, that is through stories. The veracity of stories is arrived at differently than enlightment analytic philosophy. In the Arminian Cartesian model it is about "I" using my senses to arrive at the truth. As we know this is antithethical to the story/narrative of the Bible. Perhaps we have too have been enslaved to a degree and need to repent and help our brothers and sisters out of their enslavement.