You may not realize it but you are waring on the saints. In taking that quote of Martin Luther in isolation we can easily discern he is talking about a free-will that is masked by a mythical self-will and a non-mythical free-will that is alignment with God's will, so that it is the latter that would choose God truly never the former for the former is under "bondage".<br><br>Even though you may not understand this, let me share it with you, that I have found in my spiritual walk, that in my life in Christ, if I were to have this system set up in me seperate from where my free-will in agreement with God's will was so degraded under calvinism, one-wayness, I would not have a communion with God in relationship building, and would likely walk away in time because I would be constantly told under such a system that it was never my choice to begin with, with little or no give and take balance.<br><br>Perhaps that is the ultimate purpose of calvinism, in time, to dissuade its adherents that through its automaton system dejection soon sets in, because it produces false cause and effect and in so doing must rationalize this error causing the brain to stir inordinately and that is always what the evil spirit wants is to put the soul above the spirit injuring that organ of spirit by which God communicates through initially always from inner to outer not outer brainpower to inner. Soul fulfills a secondary role to the receiving spirit to aid the spirit, that is the primary principle at work here.<br><br>Ultimately the error always of calvinism is not seeing the grace in the garden which came first, and no amount of covering up with 1001 articles will solve this problem through rationalizations because as I stated openingly the flesh is utterly corrupt and the cross's accurate assessment of it is not to alter or change it but to let it completely down out of which can come new life, so let calvinism die completely and then you will receive the new life of armenianism to see for the first time in your life the grace in the garden of eden. Amen.<br><br>Let us fulfill the basic conditions: on the one hand, yield - recognizing that you cannot and you will not; on the other hand believe in the Son of God and live - believe in GOd's fact of Christ living in you and believe that you have received. This is victory. Hallelujuah, all is done in Him! May we ask God to show us that all is done by His Son without our help, especially our created free non-mythical free-will to be under Satan's calvinism or God's armenianism. This, and only this, can be called victory.

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