Calvin is the author, or the mentor of the so called
TULIP doctrine, i.e.
T - total depravity - According to this assertion, the natural man cannot
understand anything about God. Paul, however, speaking of the lost, writes: ”For ever since the creation
of the world the unseen things of Him are clearly perceived, being
understood by the things that are made, even His eternal power and Godhead,
so that they are without excuse.” (Rom.1:20)
U - Unconditional election - The problem here is with the confusion between the
election in principle ”all who believe are elected for the praise of his glory
and his grace" with individual specific election, type: Peter, John and
Richard are elected, however, James, Henry and Mary are not. If someone would
get aware that he is not elected he couldn’t do anything to become saved. These
people, the holders of the unconditional election, did not understand this verse:
”In Him also we have been assigned to an inheritance,
being predestined according to the purpose of Him who works all things
according to the counsel of His will, that we who previously trusted in Christ
should be to the praise of His glory.”(Ef.1:11-12) Question:
Who is elected? “We who previously trusted in Christ." The
trust in Christ is our responsibility and comes first. After we trusted we are ”predestined
according to the purpose of Him”.
L - limited atonement - It is interesting that the other four points of the
TULIP seem to give all the credit to the sovereignty of God. The third, on the
other hand, has traces of blasphemy and is diametrically opposed to the other. While
the first two and last two are based, in its root, on the absolute sovereignty
of God, but the third limits the atonement of the sins to the elected, that is,
the atonement is not freely available to everyone who comes to Jesus with his
sins but for those who were previously elected by God. Expressed in another
way: God has failed, had no power, to provide an atonement unrestricted to all
sinners who confess their sins! But the Bible states ”who gave
Himself a ransom for all" (1Tim.2:6a). So, by free will, many refused
to respond to the call and are, therefore, justly condemned.
I - irresistible grace - Luther also preached this.
We do not believe in individual choice all of humanity, indeed would be saved
because grace is held irresistible. Moreover, in this case God is responsible
for lost souls in that he elected some and left the others go to hell he
becomes the author of their sins, or, on the other hand, he is incapable to
persuade everyone; he is not almighty.
P - perseverence of the saints - Once saved always saved. I understand, this
dogma makes it impossible for someone to be sure of his salvation, in the
following circumstances: The supporters of the perseverance of the saints hold that
people who go back to live in sin (some even maintain that whoever commits a
sin) were never really saved. Ask any them if they are sure they never will sin
again, or live in sin. The answer is: We do not know. So they cannot be sure of
salvation. Some of them, however, even so believe that, in fact, that salvation
can’t be lost. I want to stress that it is not the individual sins that we loose
our salvation, but the continued living in sin and the not forgiving those who
sinned against us, having confessed their sins. ”Then his master, after he had called
him, said to him, You wicked servant! I forgave you all that debt because you
begged me. Should you not also have had
compassion on your fellow servant, just as I had pity on you? And his master
was angry, and delivered him to the torturers until he should pay every bit
that was due to him. Thus My Heavenly Father also will do to you if each of
you, from his heart, does not forgive his brother his trespasses.” (Matt.18:32-35)
In this parable it is clear that God backs up his pardon already granted.
It looks like this TULIP idea was created, as so
many in the human sciences today: First write down a thesis – then look for
evidence that backs it up. In the case above, I am sure, it wasn’t the other
way around, and probably at the interest of the Jesuits, it seems.
I mentioned above that 4 points of the TULIP
doctrine seem to give all the credit to the sovereignty of God. It, really only
seems so because one could argue the other way around, as well, and say that
God wasn’t able to create a being that was absolutely capable to decide for
himself. More of that on the end of the book.
It is believed that John Calvin, Cauim was his name
before in France, and before that Cohen, in Switzerland (which has also the
portuguese version of Coelho, descendants of the priestly family of Aaron) even
centuries before, was on the ”payroll" of the Catholic church throughout his
reform.
Despite heated debates pro and against the TULIP,
and millions of fans, I believe that none of the 5 premises above are biblical. I was, already, suspicious since
long time that such doctrines as “once saved always saved” and the “pre- tribulationist
rapture” must have illuminist roots but to produce written evidence for it
would be almost impossible. The reason for suspecting this is easy: It will
provide for the largest horde of evaders of the faith, the fall away from the
faith, that Paul predicted.
Fortunately you have it now, above, with all its
letters that perverse people encouraged these ideas. The Jesuits promised to infiltrate
the pulpits, seminars and church reform, and did so. For the evangelical
churches to be able to get rid of the infiltration it is necessary to recognize
the problems, repent for opening of the door to spreading false doctrine and then
turn around and teach the biblically correct doctrine. The tragedy is that the
truly saved, unfortunately, are mostly pre-conceptualized and therefore hardly
will exclude these doctrinal errors. They give more credit and importance to
the words of celebrity ”preachers wisdom", and undercover secret societies
teaching than to the Word of God. Hardly anyone becomes famous in the Christian
spiritual world without being promoted by the underworld of Satan. In one or
other area of doctrine, sooner or later, will be detected the compromise with
the world. Interestingly some that expound some errors introduced by dubious
means, propagate heresy from other sources.
When the beast will implement the Mark?
The 144 thousand cannot, for obvious reasons, have received the Mark and afterwards
have received the seal of God, neither the other way around. For this reason I
believe it is reasonable to postulate that the Mark will be introduced only from
the second half of Daniel's 70th week on, after the 144 thousand will
be sealed and have fled to the desert. The U.S. pro worldwide-government
movement even fabricates security crisis to pus
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