I am a Calvinist.
"But, you believe in choice."
Calvinism isn't the doctrine
Of Free Will versus Determinism.
That is a philosophical presumption
Which doesn't belong in theological discussions.
Calvinism is the doctrine of Predestined Grace
And the Sealing of God's Saints through the Holy Spirit.
That God, and God alone, empowers a man to make choices.
It also assumes that God already knows beforehand
Who will choose God, and thereby receive Grace.
However, how can one be blotted out of the book of life
If there is no choice to follow God's commandments?
Simply, it leaves a lot to ask,
As I can't be Arminian because
If I held onto my Seal of God's Approval myself,
By only my own power,
And it wasn't bound to me through God's seal of grace,
I would be certainly one who would make the wrong choice.
Rather, it is God's love, yet also our love.
True love never fails---and if one is capable of true love
God's Love abides upon that person forever.
If a man is adulterous, he shall be written a bill of divorcement.
Mark 13:51Jesus saith unto them, Have ye understood all these things? They say unto him, Yea, Lord. 52Then said he unto them, Therefore every scribe which is instructed unto the kingdom of heaven is like unto a man that is an householder, which bringeth forth out of his treasure things new and old.
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