Appointment with salvation

For God hath not appointed us to wrath,

but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ, 

Who died for us, that,

whether we wake or sleep,

we should live together with him.   1 Thessalonians 5:9-10 KJV

God does not offer us some kind of life that is similar to or can intersect with the life of Jesus.  Jesus is God and is the author of eternal life to all those who trust in Him.  The life that He offers is that which He lived and lives among His people.  The life that He offers is that of a servant (John 12:26). 

When the New Testament writers used the word “elect,” their definition for that word was “servant.”  The word was redefined by bad theologians throughout the centuries.  In the imagination of Calvin, the “elect” are those that are the equals of Jesus.  Here is how the faulty logic of calvinists gets them into trouble:

God knows everything

God constantly knows everything  FLAG

God dwells in an eternal NOW  FLAG

God decided to make humans

God knows that humans will sin  FLAG

God knows which humans He will save (true…He knows He will save all that are in JESUS)

God automatically makes the rest of humanity so that they inevitably go to hell  FLAG

   Where there is a red flag, there is a biblical issue with the calvinist’s position.

Apart from the revelation of Jesus in time and as one of us, we have no capacity to understand the consciousness of God, nor what He knows or doesn’t know.  Jesus obviously did not know everything (Matthew 24:36) but He is still God.

The concept of an eternal NOW is derived from Greek philosophy and has no biblical support. 

God’s knowledge of the first sin may easily be challenged biblically.  God asked Adam whether the man had eaten of the fruit (Genesis 3:11).  If God asked the question, the safest assumption is that He did not already know the answer.  (There is a condition where even the most foolish calvinist desires that God have no knowledge…(Isaiah 43:29, Hebrew 8:12.  If God can forget, then why can’t He choose not to know?).

There is no biblical evidence that points to God making reprobate humans in advance.  The Bible teaches that reprobation comes after obtaining a knowledge of God (Romans 1:28).

If God has absolute and constant knowledge as the calvinists like to describe, then the “saved” humans (elect) have a special condition that makes them the equals of Jesus (Jehovah’s Witness doctrine).  God HAD to know them for all eternity (gnosticism) and they are injected into the time stream in some special way that is not described in the Bible.  The doctrine of the calvinist obviously props up the lies of the cults.  The calvinists are confused about how long they have existed.

Jesus Christ is God and has always been God.  He created mankind and, then, when we were helpless because of the devastating effects of sin, He became one of us, took our sin upon Himself, and died on the cross (Romans 5:8).  Jesus made salvation from sin available to every human.  Jesus did the work of salvation that matters to us in time.  What God did or will do at some other time is of no importance until each person does business with Jesus today ( For He -Jesus- says, I have heard you in a time accepted, and in the day of salvation have I succored you: behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation.2 Corinthians 6:2). 

Sinner…there is no guarantee of tomorrow

Come to Jesus.

Come to the Cross.