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To: Springfield Reformer

God must intervene to provide means of salvation, and the savee must decide to accept the means. Having the individual causational (and provisional) vectors of that action be perpendicular to the time line known by man solves many philosophical questions. Fancy labels (this-ism, that-ism) don’t negate the basic truth that you can be offered something and refuse. Until accepted the Holy Spirit can’t save, He can only invite and warn. Preserving an accepted salvation to the end of physical time is a no brainer, intellectually. Spiritually it was an astounding burden for God.


191 posted on 05/19/2013 4:57:07 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (How long before all this "fairness" kills everybody, even the poor it was supposed to help???)
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To: HiTech RedNeck
God must intervene to provide means of salvation, and the savee must decide to accept the means.

Semi-Pelagian beliefs are not wrong because they are an "-ism," but because they do not work, either as to Scripture or reason. Again, you are merely postponing an inevitable dilemma. Fallen man can generate saving faith within himself or he cannot. It is unworkable to try and skirt the problem with time tricks. The Scriptures know absolutely nothing of such imaginative devices. They are nothing but an accommodation to secular philosophical peer pressure, and that path, if followed to its logical conclusion, will lead one to the edge of Nietzsche's abyss. I know because I have been there, and do not care to visit again.

240 posted on 05/19/2013 6:51:00 PM PDT by Springfield Reformer (Winston Churchill: No Peace Till Victory!)
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