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God proclaimed to Nineveh, "Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown!" But when the inhabitants repented, God forestalled the judgement.
God sent angels to destroy Sodom when, as before the flood, there was but a single righteous man remaining. When Abraham interceded, God said he would spare the entire city for the sake of only ten righteous people.
God proclaimed judgement on Ahab, a man described as unparalleled in wickedness, but when Ahab heard the proclamation, he humbled himself in sackcloth and fasting, and God forestalled the promised judgement.
God proclaimed judgement on the world when there was only one righteous man left, a preacher of righteousness. The ungodly were given 100 years of Noah's testimony in word and deed. There is no reason to believe that God could not or would not have forestalled his judgement had the ungodly responded positively. God's proclamations of judgement are not irreversible.
As Jonah plaintively stated, "I know that You are a gracious and merciful God, slow to anger and abundant in lovingkindness, One who relents from doing harm."
David immediately follows his imprecations with a request for God to see if his heart is in the right place.
Lord, in these evil days, may our hatred for wickedness be free from fleshly motivations and our hearts primed with your long-suffering mercy.
—T. Amos
@WWUTTcom What can a dead man do? Turns out he can sin, walk, run, do spiritual things (just bad ones), do some good things because he’s not as depraved as he could be. The one thing a deadman can’t do is the one thing God commands he MUST do. Dead doesn’t convey what the Calvinist holds.
@S1011248077184@ProvisionistP@taco_talks The thing is “God is sovereign” is just part of basic Christianity. It means he has the right to do as he pleases, and that he is the King of kings and Lord of lords. It has nothing to do with the particulars of Calvinism.
@stablecross@Soteriology101@Pastor_Gabe My ability to hear comes from God
My ability to understand comes from God
My ability to put my faith in Christ is from God
How I use those gifts is not determined by God. Not because He is unable but because He desires love. Love cannot be coerced.
“I assume synergist heaven will have a line where God will thank you all for helping him.”
The gaping hole in pop-Calvinist theology is the complete absence of consideration for God’s desire to have authentic love relationships.
Good Christmas song devo by Drew. It's a favorite of mine, too. I used it for one of my Christmas drawings a couple of years ago.
https://t.co/kPY1tsu7uu
@1984_nate@Pastor_Gabe The very existence of Christ's parables implies a responsive, though wounded, human will. A will capable of being stirred, illumined, and healed by the Logos.
In Calvinism, the Elect wouldn't need veiled teaching. The reprobate couldn't even hope to understand unveiled teaching.
Esau was (most likely) saved at the end of his life (Gen 33). He displayed both:
Unbelievable forgiveness and reconciliation toward someone who had wronged him (Jacob),
And also repentance from earlier sin.
Jacob describes seeing him like seeing "the face of God"(Gen 33:10)
The reason there are so many differences of opinion on issues of theology is that God has chosen to work with us according to the state of the renewed mind in each individual.
The renewed mind is a work of Word and Spirit. The only way this works is if we love one another.
It is true that man on his own will never seek God (Rom 3:11), but it is also true that God has not left man on his own (John 1; Titus 2:11; Luke 19:10).