Calvinism

Question: Dave, [you don't] understand Romans 4:16, It is by faith that it might be by grace.” My friend and mentor,...I cannot tell you how much I appreciate you and your work...but you are mistaken about Calvinism. Please allow me to help you a bit....

March 1, 2004

Question: In your Q&A of Dec. 2003 (re: Phil Johnson/John MacArthur) you wrote, “Refute my reasoning if you can, but don’t call me a liar.” As an avid reader of about everything you write (except What Love Is This?— I’m a Calvinist), I made marginal notes. One reads, “Dave’s right,...Read more

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Questions and Responses

Question: Why does Revelation 17:8 (and maybe Revelation 13:8, depending on the translation used) refer to those “whose names were not written in the book of life from the creation of the world...”?

Question: Were Adam and Eve created perfect? If so, how could they sin? If they were created with a will that could choose to sin, how could they have been perfect?

Question: In the millennium, a child will die being 100 years old and will go...where? After the millennium, the New Jerusalem descends to earth. This is not for all believers but only the church. Can you sort this out?

Question: [TBC's] statement that John Calvin taught that Infant Baptism saves betrays a regrettable ignorance of Calvin’s beliefs....I request you publish this clarification of our Protestant, Reformed position.

Question: You said that Jesus had no blood in His resurrected body. But He has flesh and bones. The Bible says that the life of the flesh is in the blood, so how can He have flesh without blood?

Question: How can you believe both in God's foreknowledge and that man has the power of choice?

Question: In Zechariah 5:9, who are the two women with wind in their wings, like wings of a stork? This is how the world and especially Catholics believe angels look....

Question: Are we ALL created in God’s image or were Adam and Eve the only one’s created in God’s image? What is God’s image? What does it mean?

Question: Genesis 3:15 mentions the serpent's seed and the seed of the woman, which was Jesus Christ. Does it not appear that if the serpent's seed wasn't real, that Jesus could not have been real?

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The Finality of the Cross	Feb 2008
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