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Can't go wrong with any of the Calvary Chapels as they teach word by word, verse by verse instead of telling you what to think. JD Farag is as based as can be and you can catch his weekly prophecy update on Rumble channel Raymond7779 https://rumble.com/c/c-361155
Some of them lean pretty Calvinist. I used to go to one and once I started learning about Calvinism I had to leave. It was too confusing to try to filter out the mixed messages about the God of the Bible and the god of Calvinism.
Most Calvary chapels I know about do not hold the Calvinist doctrine. Named Calvary because of where the cross was, not because of the doctrine.
Calvanism is a label they throw at you like anti-Semite and racist. All meant to keep you from the truth. If you are a saved believer in Christ it is on YOU to rightly divide the Word of truth.
"Free will doctrine - what does it?
It magnifies man into God. It declares God's purposes a nullity since they cannot be carried out unless men are willing.
It makes God's will a waiting servant to the will of man and the whole covenant of Grace dependant on human action.
Denying election on the ground of injustice, it holds God to be a debtor to sinners".
Charles Spurgeon.
You need to spiritually detox yourself from bad teaching which is practically found in every church. They are not about the truth but money. Any church that thinks the Jews are God's chosen people, get the hell out of there. If you see the Israel flag on church grounds, leave!!
The Bible says for many are called but few chosen.
Saul of Tarsus was on a mission to kill Christians until the glorified Christ stepped in and made him the 12th Apostle.
If a person becomes a believer in Christ, God did that, you didn't, the lost sinner "didn't get saved" wasn't won over by dispensational members of a water Baptist church going "soul winning" but the Lord did that!
When you share the good news of Christ, take God with you. Pray the Lord will save that person because the decision rests in the hands of God the Father not the sinner.
John 6:37
“All that the Father giveth me shall come to me; and him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out.”
Romans 3
10 As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one:
11 There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God.
I’d give you another updoot if I could for quoting Charles Spurgeon ⬆️
Amen to this!!
This is confusing, nothing good is done by us, but by God, so who does the bad stuff?
This is a favorite verse of Dispensationalism, which is false doctrine.
Hebrews 13:8
Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever.
Be a Berean..........Listen to preaching as you read the Bible along side.
Can you expand a bit on Calvinism?
Do a search on the word TULIP & Calvinism, and compare it to Aminianism.
Sorry I didn't reply sooner. If you're a reader, I'd suggest a book called "What love is this?" by Dave Hunt. It's a bit old, but it has some great information. For newer information, try this website: https://www.beyondthefundamentals.com/ Some of their videos are pretty long, but not all of them. And there are "class notes" with PDF files you can read.
Another good (but older) book by a Calvary Chapel pastor is "The Dark Side of Calvinism" by George Bryson.
I've been reading about the different Great Awakenings, Calvin, etc.
are you talking about Calvin and predestination? I'm new to some of this, so wonder what red flags to look for.
Read Romans 8:29-30. This is one of the strongest predestination verses.
29 For whom He foreknew, He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the firstborn among many brethren. 30 Moreover whom He predestined, these He also called; whom He called, these He also justified; and whom He justified, these He also glorified.
This may upset a few, but bare with me when I say predestination is a misunderstanding of Scripture. It assumes before you are born, you are predetermined or chosen the go to Heaven but it ignores the omnipresence and omniscience of God and the gift of free will. You see, God as the Creator stands outside of Creation and literally sees everything, and every time, all at once. You know the first verse of the Bible, "In the beginning God created the Heavens and Earth." Get that, in the beginning so before this happened, there was no such thing as time but then when He created the Heavens (space) and Earth (matter) it was literally the beginning of the space/time continuum. So by this, knowing that God sits outside of creation, thus He also sits outside of time itself. So He knew me before He set the foundations of the earth, because He can see my entire life all at the same time. He knows the decisions I'm making, even to the day I was saved. Point is, I made that decision on my own, God just knew that I was going to, just as He already knows everyone else that is going to join me as a Brother or Sister in Christ. But that's not predestination, that's just God being God and knowing all of His children and the decisions they will make in life.
Sorry I didn't reply sooner. Yes, predestination and the rest of TULIP. I'm thankful that I spent about a year and read the entire Bible before I started going to church. And, the church I went to didn't start going all in for Calvinism until a new assistant pastor came on board. Things to look out for is "Nothing happens unless God allows it" and "God is in control".
From my reply to demonite10: f you're a reader, I'd suggest a book called "What love is this?" by Dave Hunt. It's a bit old, but it has some great information. For newer information, try this website: https://www.beyondthefundamentals.com/ Some of their videos are pretty long, but not all of them. And there are "class notes" with PDF files you can read.
Another good (but older) book by a Calvary Chapel pastor is "The Dark Side of Calvinism" by George Bryson.
You can believe in predestination and still be based. However, Calvinists are typically more "fundamentalist" in the sense they're really conservative and not as open to new concepts. To be honest, a lot of new ideas have gotten this country in trouble, so there's something to be said about it.