(More Bible Studies Available @ http://www.marktabata.com) It is written: Genesis 8:4-Then the ark rested in the seventh month, the seventeenth day of the month, on the mountains of Ararat. One of the most powerful events in the history of the world is the Great Flood. Due to the increasing wickedness of both humankind and angelkind... Continue Reading →
Unconditional Election (Conclusion)
(More Bible Studies Available At http://www.marktabata.com) It is written: “Far be it from You to do such a thing as this, to slay the righteous with the wicked, so that the righteous should be as the wicked; far be it from You! Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?" (Genesis 18:25) Calvinism... Continue Reading →
Unconditional Election (Nineteen)
(More Bible Studies Available At http://www.marktabata.com) It is written: “If anyone wills to do His will, he shall know concerning the doctrine, whether it is from God or whether I speak on My own authority.” (John 7:17) Calvinists are terribly divided on the topic of freewill. Some Calvinists maintain that mankind does not truly have... Continue Reading →
Unconditional Election (Eighteen)
(More Bible Studies Available At http://www.marktabata.com) It is written: “Therefore, brethren, be even more diligent to make your call and election sure, for if you do these things you will never stumble;”. (2 Peter 1:10) Calvinists maintain that God has unconditional elected some people to salvation. We have seen several examples in which this doctrine... Continue Reading →
Unconditional Election (Seventeen)
(More Bible Studies Available At http://www.marktabata.com) “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.” (John 3:16) Our Calvinist friends, in accordance with their teaching of unconditional election, claim that God predestined the vast majority of mankind to Hell... Continue Reading →
Unconditional Election (Sixteen)
(More Bible Studies Available At http://www.marktabata.com) It is written: “For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior, 4 who desires all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth.” (1 Timothy 2:3-4) Having examined several of the passages of Scripture which Calvinists misrepresent to try and... Continue Reading →
Unconditional Election (Fifteen)
(More Bible Studies Available At http://www.marktabata.com) It is written: “And a servant of the Lord must not quarrel but be gentle to all, able to teach, patient, 25 in humility correcting those who are in opposition, if God perhaps will grant them repentance, so that they may know the truth, 26 and that they may come to... Continue Reading →
Unconditional Election (Fourteen)
(More Bible Studies Available At http://www.marktabata.com) It is written: “Therefore they could not believe, because Isaiah said again: 40 "HE HAS BLINDED THEIR EYES AND HARDENED THEIR HEARTS, LEST THEY SHOULD SEE WITH THEIR EYES, LEST THEY SHOULD UNDERSTAND WITH THEIR HEARTS AND TURN, SO THAT I SHOULD HEAL THEM." 41 These things Isaiah said when he... Continue Reading →
Unconditional Election (Thirteen)
(More Bible Studies Available At http://www.marktabata.com) “All things have been delivered to Me by My Father, and no one knows the Son except the Father. Nor does anyone know the Father except the Son, and the one to whom the Son wills to reveal Him.” (Matthew 11:27) Calvinists use this statement of Jesus to suggest... Continue Reading →
Unconditional Election (Twelve)
(More Bible Studies Available At http://www.marktabata.com) It is written: “But we are bound to give thanks to God always for you, brethren beloved by the Lord, because God from the beginning chose you for salvation through sanctification by the Spirit and belief in the truth,”. (2 Thessalonians 2:13) Our Calvinist friends maintain that this passage... Continue Reading →