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The Not So Secret Rapture
reformed.org ^ | W. Fred Rice

Posted on 01/14/2011 5:57:52 PM PST by topcat54

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To: kosta50; caww
Which means no man can cause another man to lose it

Not completely. You can lose it on your own :-)

Therefore, opinions expressed by me on this forum are incapable of causing anyone to lose his or her faith. -- if by "cause" on includes "influence", then yes, opinions expressed by you could cause it. An indirect cause, but a 'cause' nonetheless
2,021 posted on 01/30/2011 1:27:16 AM PST by Cronos
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To: Cronos

It’s also against the rules to post excerpts without attribution. You’ve done that twice now tonight so this breach appears to be habitual with you since you did it all last week. Thankfully, your posts were removed.

You put Free Republic in jeopardy of violating copyright laws by posting excerpts without attribution.

Not to mention your excerpt is nuts. (But that’s to be expected, considering your history.)


2,022 posted on 01/30/2011 1:27:23 AM PST by Dr. Eckleburg ("I don't think they want my respect; I think they want my submission." - Flemming Rose)
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To: Cronos
but, in faith, the human intellect and will co-operate with divine grace

That is a semi-to-full Pelagian heresy.

2,023 posted on 01/30/2011 1:30:09 AM PST by Dr. Eckleburg ("I don't think they want my respect; I think they want my submission." - Flemming Rose)
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To: Cronos

You respond with nonsense. Is it impossible for you to stick to one topic?

You broke the rules of FR RF by posting Latin without translation.

Try to abide by the rules.


2,024 posted on 01/30/2011 1:31:38 AM PST by Dr. Eckleburg ("I don't think they want my respect; I think they want my submission." - Flemming Rose)
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To: Cronos
No. Not "anyone."

Just fools.

2,025 posted on 01/30/2011 1:32:23 AM PST by Dr. Eckleburg ("I don't think they want my respect; I think they want my submission." - Flemming Rose)
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To: Dr. Eckleburg
That's no excerpt, that's a fact.

No wonder Calvinists are so bitter, Calvin's father and brother both worked for the bishopric of Noyon in Picardy as a treasurer and lawyer.

Calvin's father, Gerard, was involved in some financial misdeeds and refused to provide the financial records to the Bishop of Noyon . Gerard was excommunicated for his misdeeds and later on so was his son Charles.

Gerard then made John Calvin leave his theological studies to become a French Lawyer, which is very apropos considering what John learned from his father. John's ever growing bitterness against the Church for the excommunication of his father and brother forced him to leave the Church altogether.

And now you know the roots of Calvinism and its bitterness.

The problem is that the followers of Calvin hate the followers of Christ and

The Rabid Calvinist cult wants

CONTROL!!

They wish to set up their police-state to enforce their idea that
Calvinism = Christianity

Which is FALSE and egotistical -- just like Calvin himself, are Calvin's followers

2,026 posted on 01/30/2011 1:33:54 AM PST by Cronos
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To: Dr. Eckleburg
Hardly! posting foreign words with the translation is allowed. Dobra noc = Bon nuit = Buenos noches = Gute Nacht = शुभ रात्रि = Good night = bonam noctem

Vade retro= step back.

Do read up on the rules of FR -- no personal attacks, etc.
2,027 posted on 01/30/2011 1:35:25 AM PST by Cronos
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To: Cronos

Did you write those paragraphs?

If not, you are breaking the rules and putting FR in jeopardy.

And you seem happy about both those facts. Weird.

So how far are you willing to take this falsehood of yours? Did you write those paragraphs or would a google search reveal they are the work of someone else?


2,028 posted on 01/30/2011 1:36:37 AM PST by Dr. Eckleburg ("I don't think they want my respect; I think they want my submission." - Flemming Rose)
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To: Dr. Eckleburg
The fumble-fingered Rabid Calvinist Cult wishes to make everyone bow down to their interpretation and state that false Calvinism is supposed to be the be-all and end-all of Christianity --> that's WRONG.

According to the followers of Calvin, if man can resist God then God is no longer a Sovereign God and man is Sovereign. Thus they claim that it is impossible for man to accept or reject God’s salvation.

however, the Bible says man does resist and reject God, and this has been true since the earliest days: Adam rejected God’s Word. Cain rejected it. Noah’s generation rejected it. The men gathered at the Tower of Babel rejected it.

Calvinism is NOT biblical.
2,029 posted on 01/30/2011 1:38:51 AM PST by Cronos
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To: Cronos

You conveniently forgot a word, didn’t you?

What is the translation of your post 1991?

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2657209/posts?page=1991#1991

“Vade retro satana”

Maybe you’re embarrassed by your word choice? Feeling a little guilty? Worried about how it might look to be caught in another falsehood?

“Vade retro satana” — your words. Your post. Your folly.


2,030 posted on 01/30/2011 1:40:03 AM PST by Dr. Eckleburg ("I don't think they want my respect; I think they want my submission." - Flemming Rose)
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To: Dr. Eckleburg
Another good proof against Calvinist false teachings is at called to communion

Which points out that
A second problem with the Reformed conception is the following dilemma. If God the Father was pouring out His wrath on the Second Person of the Trinity, then God was divided against Himself, God the Father hating His own Word.

God could hate the Son only if the Son were another being, that is, if polytheism or Arianism were true.

But if God loved the Son, then it must be another person (besides the Son) whom God was hating during Christ’s Passion. And hence that entails Nestorianism, i.e. that Christ was two persons, one divine and the other human. He loved the divine Son but hated the human Jesus.

Hence the Reformed conception conflicts with the orthodox doctrine of the Trinity

2,031 posted on 01/30/2011 1:41:42 AM PST by Cronos
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To: Cronos

Of course men reject the truth. You’ve done it multiple times tonight.

And somehow, through the great mystery that is God’s universe, He ordains all of it, for His glory and the welfare of His saints.

Pray He will ordain your deliverance from idolatry and error.


2,032 posted on 01/30/2011 1:42:45 AM PST by Dr. Eckleburg ("I don't think they want my respect; I think they want my submission." - Flemming Rose)
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To: Dr. Eckleburg
Another good proof against Calvinist false teachings is at called to communion

Which points out that
A second problem with the Reformed conception is the following dilemma. If God the Father was pouring out His wrath on the Second Person of the Trinity, then God was divided against Himself, God the Father hating His own Word.

God could hate the Son only if the Son were another being, that is, if polytheism or Arianism were true.

But if God loved the Son, then it must be another person (besides the Son) whom God was hating during Christ’s Passion. And hence that entails Nestorianism, i.e. that Christ was two persons, one divine and the other human. He loved the divine Son but hated the human Jesus.

Hence the Reformed conception conflicts with the orthodox doctrine of the Trinity

2,033 posted on 01/30/2011 1:43:11 AM PST by Cronos
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To: Cronos

And while you’re at it, you might as well pray you learn how to post within the rules of the FR RF.


2,034 posted on 01/30/2011 1:43:30 AM PST by Dr. Eckleburg ("I don't think they want my respect; I think they want my submission." - Flemming Rose)
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To: Dr. Eckleburg
Hardly -- unlike you I accept the Truths of Christ but I reject the "truths" of Calvin

men reject the truth. You’ve done it multiple times tonight.
Pray He will ordain your deliverance from idolatry and error.






REJECT the teachings of Calvin and ACCEPT THE TEACHINGS OF CHRIST.

2,035 posted on 01/30/2011 1:46:57 AM PST by Cronos
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To: Dr. Eckleburg
Of course, the problem is that Calvinists want to re-instate the GEneva police state



Stephen Hick's "John Calvin's Geneva
The city-state of Geneva was in effect, a police state, ruled by a Consistory of five pastors and twelve lay elders, with the bloodless figure of the dictator looming over all, John Calvin....

Frail, thin, short, and lightly bearded, with ruthless, penetrating eyes, he was humorless and short-tempered. The slightest criticism enraged him. Those who questioned his theology he called “pigs,” “asses,” “riffraff,” “dogs,” “idiots,” and “stinking beasts.” One morning he found a poster on his pulpit accusing him of “Gross Hypocrisy.” A suspect was arrested. No evidence was produced, but he was tortured day and night for a month till he confessed. Screaming with pain, he was lashed to a wooden stake. Penultimately, his feet were nailed to the wood; ultimately he was decapitated.

2,036 posted on 01/30/2011 1:48:18 AM PST by Cronos
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To: Cronos
Do you have any concept of what "propitiation" for our sins means? Do you know what a "justifier" does and why a "justifier" is necessary?

Read Paul and learn...

"Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus:

Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God;

To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus." -- Romans 3:24-26

Why "blood," Cronos?

2,037 posted on 01/30/2011 1:50:35 AM PST by Dr. Eckleburg ("I don't think they want my respect; I think they want my submission." - Flemming Rose)
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To: Dr. Eckleburg
the OPC/PCA dreams of a police state like Geneva, where they attacked fellow Protestants as exemplified in
  1. Belot, an Anabaptist was arrested for passing out tracts in Geneva and also accusing Calvin of excessive use of wine. With his books and tracts burned, he was banished from the city and told not to return on pain of hanging (J.L. Adams, The Radical Reformation, pp. 597-598).
  2. Jacques Gruent was racked and then executed for calling Calvin a hypocrite
  3. A man who publicly protested against the reformer's doctrine of predestination was flogged at all the crossways of the city and then expelled.
  4. Calvin's Letter to the Marquis Paet, chamberlain to the King of Navarre, 1561. "Honour, glory, and riches shall be the reward of your pains; but above all, do not fail to rid the country of those scoundrels [Anabaptists and others], who stir up the people to revolt against us. Such monsters should be exterminated, as I have exterminated Michael Servetus the Spaniard."
Sources quoted in Philip Schaff's History of the Christian Church, vol. 8: From Other Sources: "Doth a fountain send forth at the same place sweet water and bitter?" James 3:11.
2,038 posted on 01/30/2011 1:50:35 AM PST by Cronos
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To: Cronos

lol. Your argument is so weak you have to repost the same comment.


2,039 posted on 01/30/2011 1:51:34 AM PST by Dr. Eckleburg ("I don't think they want my respect; I think they want my submission." - Flemming Rose)
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To: Cronos

Thank you. I just love those great old statues of the fathers of the Reformation.

Notice no one is praying to them.

Try to learn from them.


2,040 posted on 01/30/2011 1:52:41 AM PST by Dr. Eckleburg ("I don't think they want my respect; I think they want my submission." - Flemming Rose)
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