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@YoungRock84 That's awesome. I'm assuming that the conservative Baptist, Methodist, and Pentecostal churches in your town are truly turning your town upside down and bringing hatred and persecution upon themselves. True?

@RisingDisciples If you use that to define "western Christendom" yes, tired. But from my point of view that's liberal Christianity, not the conservative Baptist, Methodist*, or Pentecostal churches in my town whose "activities" lead people to God's Word and whose sermons declare the power of God.

How many others are willing admit, along with me... "I'm so tired & fed up with Christian "activities," services, sermons, compromise, complacency, blandness, self-protection, irrelevance, & the powerlessness that oozes from individualistic, institutional Western Christendom?

Most so-called evangelism in the West fails because the few who do evangelize cast seed on hardened ground with a man-centered, powerless "Gospel." The 4 Spiritual Laws don’t confront sin, Lordship, or repentance. They produce occasional "decisions"… not committed disciples.

@CadenJCooper @SacrdCowTipping Are you still part of that institutional Church?

@SacrdCowTipping And yet, some of the objections were, "But if we teach this and tell other people this, they may not give money to pay for our church building or other things." I basically just said that I couldn't in good conscience teach something I know is false for the sake of money.

I am continually encouraging by the rapidly growing number of people pursuing and returning to biblical ekklesia. I don't think it is just my algorithm, I am seeing it in the real world as well. Anyone else?

In the West, we debate denominations. In China, Iran, Somalia; FOLLOWING Christ can cost you everything. They aren’t arguing Catholic vs Orthodox vs Protestant. They’re risking their lives to follow Jesus. When pressure comes, labels fade. What remains is real discipleship.

@PaulMDohse You're saying that none of them are aware of the doctrine of evanescent grace, but numerous non-calvinists are aware of it?

@RisingDisciples John Piper admitted to me publicly that he doesn't know anything about Calvin's Institutes of the Christian Religion. None of them are aware that Calvin taught a temporary election for some.

Calvinists continue posting memes like the one below that only reveal that even big-name Calvinist "teachers" don't understand Calvinism. Rejecters of God reject him because they were ordained to do so before the foundation of the world.

@Midjorityrules Calvin had other ideas.

@RisingDisciples You're not "ordained" to sin because the All Knowing has already seen it happen. You still have free will, He just allows people to do what they decide to do, it's not a designed rejection, it's an allowed rejection, but that doesn't change the repercussions, it supports them.

Preach!

@RisingDisciples You’re confusing (I hope out of ignorance) Calvinism with Hyper Calvinism.

Western Christendom, with all of her church "services," Bible study, activities, and busyness, has followed a very similar path as Israel, and we can't [or refuse to] even recognize it. Could it be because we are wretched, miserable, poor, blind, and naked?

@Exodus15_11 Is your reply supposed to prove something?

@RisingDisciples And yet, has God forsaken whom exactly? Get it?

Election isn’t God creating some for salvation & others for damnation. BELIEVERS are chosen in Christ (Eph 1:4), not selected in isolation. Christ is THE Chosen One. Those in Him by faith share that election. No one is chosen to believe. Double predestination isn’t the Gospel.

@RisingDisciples Amen! Both "Christ" and "you" are mentioned in 1 Peter 1:20. Notice where Christ is. Notice where you are. 1 Peter 1:20 "He was chosen before the creation of the world, but was revealed in these last times for your sake." bible.com/bible/111/1pe.…

Below is a calvinist meme. Calvinists are surely very special elect ones 🤗, and the Lord must have had very special, but unknowable, reasons for selecting THEM to the exclusion of countless reprobates 🫩

When people say “It was God’s plan for Joseph to be betrayed, sold, slandered, and imprisoned”, they’re not quoting Scripture. They’re importing a philosophical assumption: that God must have intended every evil action in order to bring about a good outcome. But the Bible itself never says that. Joseph explicitly calls their actions evil: “You meant evil against me…” (Genesis 50:20) If God planned their sin, then Joseph is wrong to call it their intention and their evil. “…but God meant it for good, to bring it about that many people should be kept alive” (Genesis 50:20) Notice the grammar: -- They meant evil. -- God meant good. The text does not say: -- “God meant their evil.” -- “God planned their betrayal.” -- “God ordained their sin.” It says God took what they meant and repurposed it. This is providence, not determinism. The Bible never goes to God ordained evil. Instead, it consistently teaches: -- Humans genuinely choose evil. -- God is never the cause of evil. -- God is powerful enough to redeem evil without having to cause it. God didn’t plan the sin. God planned the salvation that came through the sin.

@OkNotThisTime In my view, it's more likely that a Jew / Gentile distinction is being made.

@RisingDisciples Ephesians 1:4-5 does not say it's about all believers being predestined for Salvation. The context is those to whom the mystery of His will was made known. These are the apostles, as is described in Ephesians 3.

The quote below collapses under Calvinism. If God already chose who will be saved [& who won’t], then your desire to “bring others” changes nothing. The outcome isn’t in your hands. It’s already decreed. This quote assumes real human participation, which TULIP doesn’t allow