Doctrinal Possum

@RyanHurst171 @1984_nate "I didn't add to [your] claim, I understood it properly." x.com/RyanHurst171/s…

@1984_nate That's not true and you know it. The argument that the reformed believe God doesn't want to save everyone is an argument made against the doctrine of Limited Atonement. I didn't add to the claim, I understood it properly.

Look at this post. You'll see that the claim that's made about Calvinism is 100% true of the system. You'll see that the claim made about Arminianism is not 100% true. Then ask yourself why, if Calvinism is the truth, why it's proponents have to be so dishonest to defend it?

That guy just deleted every post in the thread. 👌 I hope some of what we said sticks with him.

Fact is, Grok just tells you what it thinks you want to hear. Grok told me there were 168 days until Christmas. It's ok to use it to spot logical flaws, but don't use it thinking it's going to create correct arguments. If you do, it's going to make you look dumb.

I asked Grok why the two answers were different and it basically said, "When Mr. Berean asked it, I answered it using inferences not explicitly stated in scripture but synthesized from later Reformed views." Whoops.

I'm not an Arminian, but I am glad to be one of those who believe that God wants to save everyone. I don't believe that makes God a failure but sadly Tom does.

@Mr_BereaN @1Heathbar @LaymansSeminary @PProvisionalist For example, if you ask an LLM about regeneration, a term that only occurs once in the NT in a soteriological sense, but is used constantly by reformed writers, the answer is going to have a reformed bias, no matter how much you ask it not it. It literally doesn’t know better.

@Mr_BereaN @1Heathbar @LaymansSeminary @PProvisionalist The fact is that no LLM model is unbiased. It trains from online information. If a majority of that information is wrong, the LLM will be wrong, no matter how much to you tell it to be objective.

Calvanists treat God as if he is our ruler and I am just sick of it.

@Benjamin_01X Good faith effort :)

@DoctrinalPossum I'm not sure why you expected to get sense from someone who capitalises the first letter of every word in their communication with you...

"Now the Bereans were more noble, in that they searched Grok and their confessions daily, to see if these things were so."

@1Heathbar @Mr_BereaN @LaymansSeminary @PProvisionalist It really does just tell you what it thinks you want to hear. Giving anything it produces doctrinal credence is spiritually perilous foolishness.

@Mr_BereaN @LaymansSeminary @PProvisionalist Ohhh really

@1984_nate I'm not in the business of questioning people's intelligence. Sometimes, the smarter a person is, the better they are at self-deception.

@DoctrinalPossum The only way I can think that this person can actually think he's being a good Berean is that he's been deceived to think so. It has to be a spiritual blindness. No one is this unintelligent, right?

Not saying he primed the prompt first, but using his exact same prompt, word for word, with no previous prompts: 😅 x.com/i/grok/share/3…

@Mr_BereaN @D_Dispensation @TodAshby Your exact wording: x.com/i/grok/share/3…

Romans 7 is awkward for Libertarian Free Will. Paul isn’t saying, “I had equal power to choose good or evil. He’s saying, “I keep doing what I don’t want.” That’s not libertarian freedom. That’s not neutrality. That’s conflict under a new master.

@The_Idol_Killer Cooking, eh? I like my steaks grilled Augustinian rare: Doomed from the womb, predestined for fire.

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@RisingDisciples Jonah: “I know that You are a gracious and merciful God, slow to anger and abundant in lovingkindness, One who relents from doing harm.” Mercy isn’t just something God wills himself to show. It’s part of his glory - the revelation of his character. It’s who he is.

God is GOD. He can do as he pleases, but if he does as Calvinism insists that he does, then he massively violates the standards that he gives to us mere mortals to uphold. Clever, seemingly wise sound bites are no Escape from this truth and reality.

“No one He sets His love on is lost.” People save others, even die doing it, without personally loving them. You don’t need to ❤️ someone to save them. But if you do ❤️ someone and desire a relationship with them, you must allow them to reciprocate… or not. That’s true ❤️.

@Lindaloves1776 @yesiwetmyplants Relationship is a gaping hole in their theology.

It is a relationship and that takes two individuals. Just like in a marriage, one individual can pour himself out 110% but if the other individual walks off or rejects the overtures, the relationship fails, and they each go their own way. This is very simple to understand. God has poured himself out 100% and mankind is free to embrace and accept or reject and walk away. Mankind"s decision in no way affects the power of God's love.

You can’t consistently say “God never fails” and then turn around and make salvation ultimately hinge on the will of man. If the decisive factor is human choice, then God’s purpose in saving can be resisted, overturned, or left waiting on man. That doesn’t sound like the God who works all things according to the counsel of His will, it sounds like a God who hopes. If He intends to save but can be thwarted by man’s decision, then His will is subjected to man’s will, but if salvation flows from His eternal purpose, then no one He sets His love on is lost and no part of redemption hangs by the fragile thread of human ability. A God who truly never fails is a God whose saving purpose actually accomplishes what He intends