The Calvinist-Arminian debate

[alanmolstad]

Remember, we are never asked by God to do things we cant do.

Although we tend to want to point the finger of blame at other people and other things as to the reason we fail, the correct answer is that the failure is our own.

Being a creature with free will means we have the ability to Love God.
Rocks can love....dust cant love...

Im sure the dust was seen by God as "good".....
Im sure the dust was loved by God as being "good" in his eyes.
But I also sure that the dust did not Love God back.

We can love ,
We can do this because we have free will .

the down side is that the freedom to love also brings with it the freedom to hate.

The freedom to do what is right and please God, also brings with it the freedom to value things incorrectly, and place other items on the list of things to do that take the place of other correct things ...

hate and Sin are the result of being a creature with free will.
hate and sin are a lot like rocks going down a hill....once they get going in a person's life they tend to really get going.

But we are commanded to Love.

We would not be asked to do that if we had no ability to Love..

Dust cant love, Dust is never asked to love.

Being asked to do something carries with it the connotation that you can do this...(or why ask?)