Jon Bowlin

Jesus Christ is the God of the Old Testament scriptures

@Soteriology101 God only gives enabling grace to the elect and only they have the ability to humble themselves because that is the result of grace

“God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.” Not “God opposes the non-elect but gives irresistible grace to the elect to make them humble.”

@Jpalmtopper @FrMatthewLC I don’t because you can’t

@_jonbowlin @FrMatthewLC Really? Your the prayer police now.. better not pray for your dead loveones then…

We should pray for people's souls when they die and not dance on their graves. This includes Lindsey Graham, whether you liked or hated him.

@aspin3 @Soteriology101 It’s our sin too. Not just Adam’s

@_jonbowlin @Soteriology101 How do? That is what Calvinism teaches. Need me to provide quotes where it says born guilty of adams sin?

According to #Calvinism everyone who ends up in hell was: •Born rejected by God (NON-ELECT) • Born unable to believe (TOTAL INABILITY) • Born guilty for someone else’s sin (ORIGINAL GUILT) • Born without any means of atonement (LIMITED ATONEMENT) How are they not merely pitied as helpless victims, rather than justly rebuked and punished—as if they had any control over the way they were born? If Calvinism is true there is no good reason not to just feel sorry for unbelievers and there certainly doesn't seem to be any justification for rebuking and punishing them.

@chirhomale Correct. I’m just affirming what he said with scripture

@_jonbowlin This doesn’t contradict what he said if that is what you are implying.

“For God has done what the law, weakened by the flesh, could not do. By sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh, in order that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.” Romans 8:3-4 ESV

@farmingandJesus @dalepartridge @SlowToWrite That’s what I wanna know

@dalepartridge @SlowToWrite Dale how’s your foreigner wife doing with your racism?

Christians in Nigeria have lost their children, parents, friends, homes, and churches because of persecution. And they haven’t radicalized. They have maintained the fruit of the Spirit. Dale Partridge: I am radicalized because I saw foreigners and gay people on my plane!!

@Ashleyhays2089 Daniel’s 70th week has already been completed. Revelation says the tribulation is 42 months. Not 7 years.

Everything that we are watching right now is the set up for the 7 year tribulation. God is long suffering and giving everyone time to repent. He’s giving AMPLE warning.

@KJVPopulist You are slandering a man of God. Repent

Thank you Jeff Durbin (known sodomite) but I will believe Jesus when he said "For God so loves the world"

@sanderson1611 @TexasBigSky This includes what you’re rebuking in the post as the mosaic system has been done away with in Christ

@TexasBigSky That is specifically repealed in the New Testament, so you are free to eat a ham sandwich according to the Bible.

The Bible addresses this: "Ye shall not round the corners of your heads, neither shalt thou mar the corners of thy beard." - Leviticus 19:27 "They shall not make baldness upon their head, neither shall they shave off the corner of their beard..." - Leviticus 21:5a

@SarahBeth2026 God still loves His neighbors even though He chooses not to save them. There is no conflict between God asking us to do this and Sovereign Election

As a Calvinist, I figured God's ways are higher than mine. 🤷‍♀️ If He loves differently than I do, then perhaps my understanding of love is what's deficient. But I couldn't escape the conviction to love my neighbor. I asked, "What's that about, Lord?" And He showed me

Jesus' death on the cross provided real atonement—not just potential.

Because The Father gave me a heart of flesh

@norwood_ree Both the verbs in Greek for love and hate in verse 13 of Romans 9 are active

This cope version of election is stupid and intentionally obtuse, and unfortunately the obnoxious reformed katolicks believe it's actually defendable.

@Soteriology101 What makes you Pelagian is the denial of an inward work of grace that is needed for man to come to faith. You think the external means are enough apart from that work

PELAGIAN!: The Calvinist’s favorite Boogyman label! ***Share this when you’re labeled a Pelagian to help educate our Calvinistic friends*** Provisionists affirm that humanity is profoundly corrupted by sin and utterly dependent on God’s grace for salvation and any lasting good, which alone would disqualify us from what has become known today as “Pelagian.” What Provisionism rejects is the Calvinist formulation of “total depravity” —the specific claim that people are born guilty of Adam’s personal sin (original guilt) and incapable of responding to God’s gracious call to repent and believe, as if the Fall rendered us spiritually dead in a way that eliminates any meaningful human responsibility or positive responsiveness apart from an irresistible, regenerating grace given only to the elect. The early church fathers before Augustine’s debate with Pelagius consistently taught the effects of the Fall—corruption, mortality, and a bent toward sin—while preserving human free will, moral responsibility, and the ability to respond to God’s call. This aligns closely with the position I affirm. • Irenaeus of Lyons (c. 130–202 AD), in Against Heresies (Book 4.37): “Men are possessed of free will, and endowed with the faculty of making a choice… God made man a free [agent] from the beginning… so that those who had yielded obedience might justly possess what is good.” He affirmed the Fall’s consequences (solidarity with Adam’s disobedience) but insisted on retained liberty: humans bear responsibility because they can choose obedience. • Tertullian (c. 155–220 AD) emphasized that evil arises from the will, not nature: “Man… was a creature endowed with a capacity of self-determination.” The Fall is imputable to human choice, not an inherited total inability. These fathers rejected Gnostic determinism and affirmed that sin’s corruption wounds humanity (making us profoundly dependent on grace) without erasing the image of God or the capacity to respond when God calls. Augustine later developed a stronger view of inherited guilt and inability during the Pelagian controversy, which influenced Western traditions like Calvinism—but this went beyond the earlier patristic consensus. Scripture describes humanity as sinful and in need of grace (e.g., Romans 3:23, Ephesians 2:1–3—“dead in trespasses”), yet repeatedly calls all people to repent and believe as a responsible response enabled by God’s provision (e.g., Acts 17:30; John 12:32; Romans 1–2 on general revelation and conscience). Total depravity as “born guilty of Adam’s sin + utter inability to respond” adds elements not clearly required by the patristic reading of texts like Romans 5:12 (“death spread to all because all sinned”—often seen as participation or consequence, not necessarily transmitted personal guilt in the East). Eastern traditions often speak of ancestral sin as inherited corruption and mortality (a “disease” healed by grace) without the full Augustinian guilt transmission. Why This Matters This view upholds: • God’s justice and love: He genuinely calls all to repent (Ezekiel 33:11; 2 Peter 3:9) and provides sufficient grace for response. • Human responsibility: We are accountable precisely because sin corrupts but does not annihilate freedom. • Dependence on grace: No one is saved apart from Christ; grace restores and empowers what sin has weakened. Rejecting the stricter claims of total depravity is not Pelagianism—it’s consistent with the broader early church witness that sin is profound, grace is essential, and humans remain responsible image-bearers. The label “Pelagian” is frequently a rhetorical shortcut rather than a precise historical match. True Provisionism stands in this historic stream: corrupted yet responsive to God’s initiating grace. This position glorifies God’s provision for all while taking sin seriously. It invites faith as the reasonable response to the gospel, not an impossibility overcome only for a few.

@rootcausesleuth @CtS2112 Lol ok root

@_jonbowlin @CtS2112 No that’s not what living means

What does it mean that God is the LIVING God?

@rootcausesleuth @CtS2112 It means that He is real in contrast to idols that are not

@CtS2112 @_jonbowlin And living means something. What does it mean? Very few are saying.

@Lets_Talk_HC @imstillrich_eth How do you know that?

@imstillrich_eth Willing the greatest good of the other

I could think of a more loving god than yours, Brian. Your god freely creates people it knows will go to hell when it doesn’t have to. Try again.

I have yet to see any substantive or even direct response from Hayden Carroll to the refutation of his past cavils. Of course, I might have just missed them. But here is another gross misrepresentation from a man who doesn't even have a god to begin with. Oh, I know, he calls a particular exalted man a "god," but that exalted man had a god before him, and that god had a god before him, and all of these "gods" are just exalted men to begin with. So, he has no one to look to to answer the questions that must be answered when we speak of theodicy. But Mormonism has no theodicy because Mormonism has no god who is the ground of all being who can then be asked, "Why?" The god of Joseph Smith was subject to external forces that shaped him, his character, even his choices. There can be no ultimate answers in his system, so it is pretty cheeky of him to be rolling out this kind of rhetoric against the "creedal god" as he likes to say. But, let's correct his many errors. God never created anyone "for the purpose of going to hell." God created all things for the purpose of the demonstration of His glory, both in the judgment of the wicked, and in the redemption of the unworthy recipients of grace. He created all things for the demonstration of all of His attributes to the entire universe. Just punishment is part of the demonstration of His holiness and justice, and every person who enters into that punishment does so justly, not because they wanted something other. Indeed, I have said many times, if you were to reach into hell 10,000 years into eternity, grab a person who is undergoing punishment, bring them out, sit them down, and give them the choice: love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, and mind, or return to where you just were, every single person, without exception, would stand, spit toward the throne of God, and run as fast as they can right back into the outer darkness. There is an anthropological reason for this that we could discuss, but given Mormonism not only does not have a true god, it likewise has no biblical view of man (Adam fell "upward"), and hence, as I said last week, has no seat at the table of this discussion. Next, notice the twisted words, "literally wants certain people to go to hell." Again, Carroll cares nothing about accuracy or convincing those on the other side. This is all about emotions and clicks. He knows that most of his readers will default to the "innocent human beings being bullied by that evil Calvinist god" foolishness. He is writing for biblically illiterate people who have never sat and pondered Romans 9, or Genesis 50, or Isaiah 10 (which is why, when I invited him to discuss this two weeks ago, I posted Isaiah 10 and...got no response). He hopes his reader will see this vast ocean of equally innocent people being abused by Calvin's God, rather than recognizing that what is really being objected to here is God's freedom to grant grace to whom He wills, rather than to whom we think he must. Again, he has no real god in this situation, so it makes sense that he would go this direction. But for Christians, the issue is always "why would God ever be gracious," not "why won't God save everyone"?