KJV Romans 2:7 To them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for glory and honour and immortality, eternal life:
KJV 1 Timothy 6:18 That they do good, that they be rich in good works, ready to distribute, willing to communicate; 19 Laying up in store for themselves a good foundation against the time to come, that they may lay hold on eternal life.
Mr. Field, quoting a text without a context is a pretext:
KJV Ephesians 2:1 And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins; 2 Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience:
Clearly unbelievers are not literaly dead. But why should we think that Calvin or Augustine are right about the meaning of dead? "Dead" merely means as good as dead because they were under the death sentence due to transgression. So then, God merely needs to remove the blinders to enable them to choose life. Then the choice is theirs.
What Augustine and Calvin teach on the total depravity of unregenerate man is merely a thinly disguised Manichean Gnosticism crept into the Church.
We don't believe in TULIP. Calvinism is a cult. We can get along with them, but through bitter experience have found that they WILL not get along with us.Got that right.
"Bitter experience" == getting kicked out after refusing to repent?
"It does not matter whether one is Catholic, Protestant, Anglican, Messianic, Baptist, Seventh Day Adventist, Seventh Day Baptist, or any other denomination. The same malady has infected them all."
At what point, according to your sect, did the church go off the rails?