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发帖数: 3781 | 1 In fact, all are commanded to repent and turn to Christ. As Paul declared on
Mars' Hill in Athens, God "commandeth all men everywhere to repent" (Acts 1
7:30). To say that God commands men to do what they cannot do without His gr
ace, then withholds the grace they need and punishes them eternally for fail
ing to obey, is to make a mockery of God's Word, of His mercy and love, and
is to libel His character. Rather than affirming any inability, the psalmist
declares, "The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek
after God" (Psalms 10:4).
It is neither stated in Scripture nor does it follow logically that anyone,
as a result of his depravity, even if his every thought is evil, is thereby
unable to believe the glad tidings of the gospel and receive Christ as his S
avior. Here once again we find ourselves under the long shadow of Augustine'
s influence. As noted earlier, it is claimed that Augustine was "perhaps the
first after Paul to realize the Total Depravity of man"; 15 indeed, that Au
gustine invented "the exaggerated doctrine of total human depravity. . . ."1
6 In reading the Institutes, one feels compelled to ask whether Calvin relie
d more upon Augustine than upon the Bible.
This turning of depravity into a special kind of inability is never stated i
n the Bible but comes from human reasoning. Once arrived at, however, it lea
ds inevitably to points 2 and 4: that God must unconditionally elect those w
ho will be saved; and that He must effect that work through irresistible gra
ce. Yet even the claim of inability turns out to be misleading. | D******r
发帖数: 637 | 2 使徒行傳 Acts 17:30
世人蒙昧無知的時候, 神並不監察, 如今卻吩咐各處的人都要悔改.
And the times of this ignorance God winked at; but now commandeth all men
every where to repent:
圣经这么清晰的说明了上帝要全体人类悔改，如果像加尔文主义宣传的那样，上帝预定
了大部分人类下地狱，那上帝为何又要求他们悔改了？显然加尔文主义不是基督教，是
邪教
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: In fact, all are commanded to repent and turn to Christ. As Paul declared on
: Mars' Hill in Athens, God "commandeth all men everywhere to repent" (Acts 1
: 7:30). To say that God commands men to do what they cannot do without His gr
: ace, then withholds the grace they need and punishes them eternally for fail
: ing to obey, is to make a mockery of God's Word, of His mercy and love, and
: is to libel His character. Rather than affirming any inability, the psalmist
: declares, "The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek
: after God" (Psalms 10:4).
: It is neither stated in Scripture nor does it follow logically that anyone,
: as a result of his depravity, even if his every thought is evil, is thereby
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