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Kathy,

I see that you are still confused more than ever concerning historic Christianity. Like so many lost souls today, you reject "propositional truth" for something else, e.g., one's feelings, one's opinions, one's imagination concerning God. The Bible makes a self-attestation that IT is the very word of God which He providentially guided to be written down through the agency of a group of chosen vessels (men) who were indwelt by the Holy Spirit. Thus everything in the Bible is true truth, i.e., without error. Now, if one would do even a cursory study of the Bible on the word "doctrine", it would reveal that there is ONE SET OF DOCTRINES to which men are to acknowledge as truth, submit to those doctrines and further, to teach those doctrines to others.

Jude 1:3 (ASV) "Beloved, while I was giving all diligence to write unto you of our common salvation, I was constrained to write unto you exhorting you to contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all delivered unto the saints."

The "faith" mentioned above is a synonym for "truth" or "doctrine", i.e., the will of God revealed to which all men are to submit. Granted, acknowledging a set of teachings does not save anyone. But one cannot be saved without embracing the truth either. Similarly, one is not a Christian if one reads the Bible regularly, prays, attends worship services, helps the poor, etc... But, one cannot be a Christian who does not do those things either. Such things are evidences of a possible saving faith but not the proximate cause of saving faith.

When it comes to the Gospel, it is only logical that it is a set of truths which reveal the person and nature of God, the person of Christ and the Holy Spirit, the atoning work of Christ, the condition of man, his lost condition the necessity of evangelical repentance and faith in Christ and the coming judgment. Such things are not subject to the whim of man's opinion but are "set in stone" as it were and cannot be diminished nor denied and still be deemed the Gospel. There are countless "gods", "christs", "spirits" and "gospels" which are proclaimed today. Only one (or theoretically none) can be true which means all others are false and do not represent the truth which God has revealed. So yes, one's eternal destiny depends upon WHAT a man believes. An artist may paint a portrait of another but depending upon how accurate that portrait is it may or may not truly "represent" the subject. What we believe is that Calvinism is the closest representation of the truth of God and all matters of faith and life which God has set forth in the Bible. Now, you may disagree but then the onus is upon YOU to discredit and disprove that claim since Calvinism has been the foundation of the Church for millennia. Just a small bit of advice if you accept the challenge: Hordes of men have tried to disprove Calvinism and have failed miserably. One may choose to reject the truth, but truth cannot be disproven by substituting falsehood.

Here are a couple of salient articles:

1) Creeds and Standards: Their Significance and Functions, by Gerrit Hendrik Hospers
2) Is Doctrine Necessary, by Michael Bremmer

In His grace,