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[ Created: 2024-11-26 09:57:15  Updated: 2024-11-26 10:23:11 Owner: rl ]
Title: What is the relationship between a parent and his child?    
  
  
  
  

    

  
  
  
  


It is a biological fact that everything that a child is comes from either his father or his mother.   

So, the child should be exactly like his father and his mother in every aspect of their physical, mental and emotional expression.   

Right?   
Wrong!   

It is a rarity to see a child who is in every respect just like their parents physically, much less to encounter a child who agrees with their parents on everything.   

God created mankind for His purpose.   That is not much different than a couple who decides to have a child.    Neither does God plan out every aspect of our human life.   Yes, He has a plan for us, but He wants us to to choose that plan.   

Would a human parent be happy in forcing their child to follow THEIR plan by deceiving the child into thinking it was the child's own plan?   Maybe a few sickos.   

But each of us were born with a desire for independence, for self-determination.   

That is actually a gift from God.   He wants us to have the ability and opportunity to choose what we will be.   

His desire is for us to come to Him and explore life with Him.   But He forces no one.   

Calvinism teaches that God has a plan for each of us and that we inexorably follow that plan, not realizing that the choices we make were made for us by the great puppet-master in the sky.   

How perverse!   

How many of you parents would so control and deceive your own child?   

How can any human think that they are better than, more honorable than, more honest than, more loving than God?   

They call themselves Calvinists.   

The object of faith is trust.   How could you trust a being who has deceived you, is manipulating you and has determined your place in heaven or hell but won't tell you until The Judgment?   

No one in their right mind.   

And that is the summation of what it means to be a Calvinist - you trust in a God who by virtue of the nature of His scheme has proven Himself untrustworthy.   

Folks,
    God is Good.   
    God is Love.   
    God is Faithful.   
    God is Holy.   
    God is Light.   
    God is Truth.   

His name is Jesus and He proved Himself in His life, death and resurrection.   
For the Holy Spirit so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
The Holy Spirit is the eternal, omniscient, omnipresent, omnipotent Creator of all things by the Word.     

What world is John speaking of?     
    The earth and all the people born into humanity.     

The Holy Spirit is love and love is of the Holy Spirit.     

The world was created by our Lord and it is good.     We know that man chose rebellion against the Holy Spirit and so humanity became evil.     But the Holy Spirit loves the people of this world and so He birthed Christ Jesus into the world to redeem it and us.     

The Gospel is heard and those who are hungry are lead by the Holy Spirit to believe and receive the Truth.     

The Truth sets us free from sin, from death and hell and brings us to Eternal Life by the infilling of the Holy Spirit.     

Here is understanding:
    Everlasting Life is Eternal Life
    Eternal Life is union with the Holy Spirit.

For the Holy Spirit sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.
Condemnation is of Satan.     He tempted Eve to cause her to fall into condemnation.     He is our accuser.     He hates humanity.     

But the Lord loves us and desires for us to be saved - to experience eternal, abundant life.

The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
The Holy Spirit is love and His love is manifest in Christ who made it possible for us to be born of His Holy Spirit and so be In Christ.     

But, He gives us the choice between life and death.     When a person receives Christ Jesus they receive Eternal Life.     When a person rejects Christ Jesus they enter into Eternal Death against the Lord`s will.     

This verse totally undermines the false doctrine of Extreme Sovereignty.     We do not see all men coming to repentance so the Lord`s will is not done with respect to every human being.