Notice your link doesn't work but of course this falls in line with the usual tactic instead of dealing with the matter at hand, when in doubt, produce another article. What stands stands. In your commentary next, like a calvinist, as always, you do everything possible to belittle free-will in the Garden of Eden, the common theme, which of course a man of God must reject in the name of the Lord for God's elect, not unconditional, but condition for God is equal to us all and does not play favorites belittling God's Word to a genie in the bottle. Indeed a man is dead, fully dead, for he has not received Christ, not half-dead, for that is not what a spark means. A spark does not deny God's bestowment of the grace of free-will before the foundation of the world, but what I most adamantly reject in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit is that free-will God gave us in His image that you reject and belittle it as having to be half-dead in order to receive Christ. Not at all, nothing of the kind. Like I said, it does not matter how many times it sins or how dead it is, it has a free-will to accept God not zombistically, non-predeterminably and non-preselectibly, but yes, definitely foreknown and yes, definitely predestined. Amen.<br><br>Though you falsely accuse of me of being a god unto myself, though I am saved unto eternal life, you must at some point, before it is too late, realize that by which you accuse is that which you suffer actually convicting yourself that you are a "god unto yourself" one that says "God chose me and not others in this demented game of preprogramming people to hell". This is not loving, and this is not freedom, but this is bondage before they even had a chance. Your God is hateful, sick, demented God, and I hate him, and all its evil. <br><br>This is why they forsake this claim, but you care to get into my spelling mistakes of arminianism and to falsely accuse of gnosticism that by which you suffer over grace of God claiming gnostically that you were chosen over those predestined to hell. This to me is the most pretentious prideful arrogant thing I have ever heard and 5% is too generous to be sure. <br><br><br>I really think the sickness of calvinism starts with total depravity and in this initial mistaken assumption, for man is not totally deprave, in the sense there will never be any means of restoration from the unfettered free-will for of course that is not true because many men through the centuries have been saved because they came to the cross as a helpless sinners even though they were previously without life yet they came, by the grace of being made in the image of God, and received the Lord Jesus. My finding is that those who reject this and belittle it and stress a total depravity of man so that zombistically is the only way to be received, is a priding oneself over others, and it is unethical, making men of God cringe at the depths with the evil spirit will go to manipulate the Word of God. I can see why he does this in men because his time is running short.<br>

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