Calvinists believe in the total inability of man to respond to God. They teach that once God grants spiritual life to a person, then they have the ability to respond to God by repentance and faith. This order is life from God, then repentance and faith.
God's Word teaches total depravity, not total inability. Those that are spiritually dead in trespasses and in sins are corrupt before a righteous and holy God. Only by responding to holy Spirit conviction and drawing by repentance and faith does one receove new life in Christ. This order is repentance and faith, then new life from God.
To the unwary, they see the buzz words repentance and faith and accept the rest of the words of Calvinists as sound doctrine.
It has been said that there is a considerable problem with Calvinism in the ABA. According to the best of your knowledge, is there a problem with Calvinism in the ABA? If so, to what extent?
Wednesday, September 2, 2009
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