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To: bobo1

I’m sorry, but you don’t know what you are talking about. I’m a Calvinist. I promise I thoroughly understand what I believe.

Responsibility and voluntary choice are not the same thing as free will. Calvinists affirm that man is indeed responsible for the choices he makes, yet we deny that the Bible teaches that man has a free will since it is no where taught in the pages of Scripture. The Bible teaches, rather, that God ordains ALL THINGS that come to pass according to the counsel of His own will (Eph 1:11) but it also teaches that man is responsible for his choices (Ezek 18:20, Matt 12:37, John 9:41).

Our choices are not coerced ...i.e. we do not choose against what we want or desire, yet we never make choices contrary to God’s sovereign decree. What God determines will always come to pass (Eph 1:11). Theologians refer to this tension between man’s culpability for his actions and God’s sovereignty as “compatibilism.”


14 posted on 08/27/2012 10:48:46 PM PDT by .45 Long Colt
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