7662	Forums / Theology Forum / The Donkey Messenger	on: March 30, 2007, 02:03:34 PM
Quote You never did understand, did you? Quote God calls who he wants when he wants... God chose before the foundation of the world men and women and He ALONE saves.... No , Its not hyper Calvinism its the real gospel. If that's your understanding of "The Gospel", may I gently suggest you go back to the Bible and find out what the Gospel really is.  And then preach Christ, and Him crucified. Sigh.  Maybe if you spent a year knowing that God hated you and planned your torment for his glory from the beginning and there is no Gospel for you, maybe then you'd understand. Wow , Joker this is the heart of gospel power. If we had anything to do with the choice of our salvation we would be most miserable. It is a comfort to know that it is impossible for me to obtain salvation or to keep His salvation. The burden comes when we reduce His authority to a human level of understanding. Once we think He must have done the pre ordination according to our standard of freedom ie not allowing the power of His ability to be manifest in our limiting His freedom to choose we burden ourselves with a form of legalism. I hope that you consider your attitude toward freedom and wash your mind out of the limits you place on God so that the grace He gives becomes in your understanding a  really free grace. It will be a new experience for you.