Satan does not tempt you so that you lose your tempter, become proud or greedy or adulterous. He simply tempts you to bestir yourself. If only he succeeds in bestirring you to "do" something, he gains the victory. Oh that I had enough tears to cry out, "Don't be stirred!" Because once you have been stirred up to take action, you have failed. This is what calvinism does is it constantly tries to stir the mind to rationalize a concept called "total depravity" and it is because of this assumption, their god must unconditional elect them out of it through limited atonement by irresistable grace preserving these.<br><br>But once you realize the error, that is total depravity, you realize the whole thing is a farce. Men are not totally deprave because we are made in the image of God. However, we are utterly corrupt, but that is not the same thing of total depravity. Utterly corrupt means I can do nothing of myself because I am utterly corrupt. Total depravity says not only can I do nothing of myself, I can't even come to Christ so it turns the person into a zombie, while being utterly corrupt says man is not a zombie.<br><br>It is best reflected in Galatians 5.7. The flesh lustest against the Spirit and the Spirit against the flesh; for they are contrary to one another; that ye may not do the things ye would.<br><br>No place is given for us to participate. This is God's deliverance. We sit on the sidelines to watch the striving of the Holy Spirit against the flesh and vice versa. Such is the way of deliverance. Not zombiism that focuses on something else - on not the aspect of deliverance, but on the aspect of "I am a zombie, I was preselected unto zombiism irresistably, limitedlly, unconditionally, and perseveringly, but you are not". This is not proper Biblical psychology. It just does not work.<br><br>Proper Biblical Psychology says, In order for you to be delivered, you need to accept Christ to receive Christ, and in order for you to overcome in Christ you will need to say "I cannot", "I will not", "I believe", "I have received", this is yielding = letting go.<br><br>
