The Calvinist-Arminian debate

[alanmolstad]

Originally Posted by Billyray

Alan, can you obey the commandments perfectly and live a life like Christ?

I have answered that question already....
You seem stuck on it...its like you don't get the answer you want so you cant get past it?...

Tough luck kid....

Here is how I roll....I never put up with trouble makers or people that babble on and on without a clue....
I ban them by adding their names on my IGNORE LIST...

However if I should later find that someone on my IGNORE LIST has actually been banned by the forum owner, then i believe it is better that i un-ban them from being on my IGNORE LIST because not doing that might make me guilty of adding to/getting in the way of, a problem that is being dealt with by the forum owner.


However, asking the same question over and over is a sign that the conversation is reaching its limit...


4 the final time...
..... once again the answer that i gave a long time ago....

God NEVER asks us to do things that we cant do, nor would he then condemn us for failing to do what we were unable to do in the first place...
Thus....lets look at the things our Lord Jesus told us to do.


Lets look at the Christian idea of "Love your enemy"

Is there anything about this concept that is physically out of our ability to do?.......NO!

Ok.....then is there anything mentally too hard about the concept that is simply beyond our limited human minds to understand?.......NO!

So there is nothing really all that hard to understand about the idea of loving your enemy.....

So does my being able to understand this statement by Christ mean Im likely going to fulfill it all the time, every day of my life, until the day i die?.....HECK NO!

My being able to do something does not mean I'm likely to always do it....

So the FINAL ANSWER IS = God would NEVER ask me to do anything that i cant do.

God never asked me to flap my arms and fly like a bird to be saved...

God never asked me to Drink 1 million gal of acid before I can be saved.

God did not do that, and never asked me to do that because I cant and God knows I cant do such things...

But we have been told to do a few things by God, and they are things God knows we can do...

But when any of us fail we have an advocate with the father....


That (in a nutshell) is the answer i gave to this question a long time ago...

See posts # 15, 17, 19, 22, 24, 29, 31, 35, 37, on this topic if you have any farther questions on this matter.