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Average Joey · #2 (**permalink**) 05-14-2005, 01:39 PM

After being born-again I immediately started going to a Reformed church and was "open" to Calvinism.After a year I tried getting away from Calvinism because I realized after talking to a friend that I was only a Calvinist because it is the first church I started attending.After a few difficult questions concerning the soveriegnty of God,I had to come back.Arminianism just left many holes and questions that they could not answer.For example:

"The just shall live by faith.Not of works lest any man should boast,but you can choose to have faith because you have free will."

In other words,the Arminian says not of works to be saved however the contradiction comes in by choosing Christ.Which in itself is a work.

I came to believe again that The Holy Spirit alone gives us His Will to choose him.Not anything within ourselves.I know this is something simple to post,but I never get tired of simply stating that man is 100 percent incapable of choosing Christ.It take God`s DEVINE will to turn a heart to bow to Him.It takes God to make a man feel sorrow for his sins.If God didn`t do this,then why does the sinful man become repentant?Is it because suddenly his "Free Will" feels conviction?How?If a man is a sinner by nature,then how does he suddenly feel sorry for his nature?That`s like saying a man feels sorry because he had to move his bowels.It is in his nature to do so.Just as it is in man`s nature to sin.He cannot stop sinning as well as he cannot stop moving his bowels.I think I`ve said enough.

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