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Thanks for this site! #26819 Thu Jul 21, 2005 6:52 PM
Joined: Jul 2005 Posts: 2 Stillwater, OK ELECT OP Plebeian
OP ELECT Plebeian Joined: Jul 2005 Posts: 2 Stillwater, OK	There is such a wealth of information on this site! Thank you Pilgrim for putting this together and thank you all for the insightful and biblical posts that you have taken the time to create. I have been a professing Christian for my entire life (I'm 29 now); however, for a large portion of my adult life I was what I would call an intellectual Christian. I knew what I believed and I could discuss it with people but there was no evidence of it in my life. Then the Lord in his mercy sent to me the doctrines of grace. Oh the terrible and wonderful the convictions these truths placed upon my heart! How is it that people can look upon Calvinism as "cold, legalistic, arrogant?" What is cold about the sovereignty of God? What is leaglistic about letting the Bible interpert the Bible? Where is the arrogance of giving ALL of the glory to God? Thank you Lord for these truths! How lost I was! How lost we all were before the Holy Spirit first acted upon us! Thank you Lord for your sovereignty that you would not leave something as precious as my eternal soul in my wicked hands! It brings tears to my eyes! How could anyone desire to say that man controls his own salvation? How many of us have tried to go on a diet or give up smoking how often do we fail? And yet some would say that a man can be faced with a "decision for Christ" and comprehend fully in his soul what this means and still say no?!?! I cannot deny a Twinkie and yet it is within me to deny the Lord? If I am in a dark room and someone turns on a light, my exclamation "I can see!" is not one of free will it is a response to stimuli. The Holy Spirit illumes our souls and we cry out, "Yes Lord!" Our cry is not a decision it is a RESPONSE. O.K. that's enough out of me for now. Once again thank you all.

Re: Thanks for this site! ELECT #26820 Fri Jul 22, 2005 8:12 AM
Joined: Dec 2004 Posts: 591 Washington State Adopted Addict
Adopted Addict Joined: Dec 2004 Posts: 591 Washington State	Elect, It is always edifying to hear the testimonies of Christian Brothers. Quote Elect Said: I cannot deny a Twinkie and yet [they say] it is within me to deny the Lord? Well put <img src="/forum/images/graemlins/ClapHands.gif" alt="" />, although I've never heard it said quite that way before. More commonly the Arminians say: "It is within me to choose the Lord" as if they had "decided" to come into this judged world in the first place! "Because thy rage against me and thy tumult has come into mine ears, therefore I will put my hook into thy nose, and my bridle into thy lips, and I will turn thee back by the way by which thou camest." (2Ki 19:28) "Therefore behold, I will this once cause them to know, I will cause them to know mine hand and my might, and they shall know that my name is The Lord." (Jer 16:21) "And I will put my Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments and do them." (Eze 36:27) We do indeed have an eternal reason to be thankful! In Him Denny Roms 3:22-24 Denny Simon Peter answered Him, "Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life." [John 6:68]

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