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Regeneration and Rebirth – Part 1

Index But hasn't Christian tradition long held an absolute correlation between being regenerated and being assuredly saved? Even going by the Master Scientist's demonstration, the distinction between God's working and not working in man was always most clearly seen in His supernatural work of regeneration - if this is now believed to be possible for…Read more Regeneration and Rebirth – Part 1

The Fallacy of Piper’s Two Wills teaching

Index When it comes to the elect, God does not factor in any of their self-determinism - it's just unconditional election unto salvation. So God has a single desire to manifest His glory to a chosen people and He counsels to fulfill this desire and begins work on this. This root desire or purpose is…Read more The Fallacy of Piper’s Two Wills teaching

Two Wills of God

Index John Piper does an amazing, earnest job at attempting to explain the calvinist paradox of holding God's predestining the condemnation of the non-elect before any good or evil simultaneously with God's desire for these very non-elect to be saved. You can read it here - https://www.desiringgod.org/articles/are-there-two-wills-in-god Piper begins illustrating the theory with the betrayal…Read more Two Wills of God

Refuting the two wills of God theory in unconditional reprobation

It is apparent in Scriptures that God desires all the world to repent and be saved. And yet the calvinist doctrine of reprobation contradicts God's desire for all mankind to be saved - for if before the foundation of the world, God has decreed eternally that some would definitively perish, how can God then desire…Read more Refuting the two wills of God theory in unconditional reprobation