YOUR duty? I guess you're exempt from that humility thing, eh? Being so important to the plan of God, as you are.
No, the truth is that you're insane. Worse, you teach your insanity as coming from God.
I've got news - your type of megalomania is very, very well known on this planet. Go visit some mass grave sites, if you don't believe me.
I spit at you to honor the souls of those millions killed by people like you, who destroyed in the name of "saving souls." And I spit in the name of those who didn't die but who have been psychologically crippled with self-loathing after imbibing the filth and scorn and hatred you preach down at them.
Jesus summed up people like you very simply, when he said, "I know you not."
Cults like calvinism do that to people, unfortunately.
“YOUR duty? I guess you’re exempt from that humility thing, eh? Being so important to the plan of God, as you are.”
I don’t know how you come to these conclusions about spitting at me and about me or people like me killing people, since my argument is quite clearly that we are all under sin, and that there is nothing good in each of us. There is no instance of me saying I am better than the other fellow. More accurately, it is you guys insisting that there is something good in you, and me denying that there is anything good in any of us, except that which springs from God alone.
This is at the heart of the Pelagian/Augustinian controversy that we see here, as well as between the Roman Catholic Church, which is semi-Pelagian, with the Reformation of later times. And also between the Reformed churches and the Arminian. It is a question of who it is that saves. Whether it is man who saves himself, though “assisted” in some way by God, but still, essentially, asserting an internal goodness in man which enables him to respond and cooperate, though the scripture denies such ideas. Or if whether one can have anything at all except it is given to them by God, as Christ preached and the Apostles.
Is it really so hateful to imagine that “no man can come unto me, unless it is given to them by the Father,” as Christ says in John 6?