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To: HarleyD; stripes1776; Forest Keeper; qua; blue-duncan; AlbionGirl; Kolokotronis; annalex; jo kus
God the Father chooses us and the Son sets us free. After that we can walk according to God's will or we can walk according to our sinful will

That is a preposterous proposal. Calvinists, then, believe that only Christians are good and the rest of the people of the world must, by necessity, be evil?

This is, of course, consistent with your theology that humanity is, through Adam's sin, and not our own, born dead and that there is nothing good in us. This is of course contrary to what the Scripture says (cf Eze 18:20) that no man shall bear the iniquity of another, be it his father or his son.

That which is good in humanity is from God and by God. The rest is our own creation and choosing. The difference is: the nonbelievers will give credit to themselves; the Christians will give all credit for goodness to God.

4,709 posted on 04/17/2006 6:14:17 AM PDT by kosta50 (Eastern Orthodoxy is pure Christianity)
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To: kosta50; stripes1776; Forest Keeper; qua; blue-duncan; AlbionGirl; Kolokotronis; annalex; jo kus
HD- 1) God the Father chooses us and 2) the Son sets us free.

Kosta - That is a preposterous proposal.

That which is good in humanity is from God and by God. The rest is our own creation and choosing.


4,712 posted on 04/17/2006 7:34:51 AM PDT by HarleyD ("A man's steps are from the Lord, How then can man understand his way?" Prov 20:24 (HNV))
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