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To: HarleyD; P-Marlowe; Gamecock; betty boop; Alamo-Girl; metmom; Dutchboy88; TXnMA; marron; ...

I fail to see the reason for your question on God’s reason for creating hell. I answered in #203 (or thereabouts), so you must not have seen it yet.

Marlowe rightly says that many Calvinists are fatalists; in your case, you correctly assert that we can’t make the right choices because of our sin nature. So, any good thing done is done only by the grace of God. As scripture says, by grace we are saved through faith (and that not of ourselves probably refers to the faith)

So, how do the resisters of the Holy Ghost resist if sinning is their natural state? Who are they resisting? And what was he doing with those sinners that they needed to resist it?


206 posted on 01/25/2013 6:25:09 PM PST by xzins (Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It! True supporters of our troops pray for their victory!)
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To: xzins; P-Marlowe

Nope, didn’t see it. I’m a slow reader and a slower typist. :O)

And, no, PM is not right about Calvinist being fatalist. Fatalist believe everything is by “fate”. Calvinist believe everything is caused by our sin nature. There is a distinction.


212 posted on 01/25/2013 6:49:38 PM PST by HarleyD
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