3rd Michigan Volunteer Infantry Company A

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Aviators' Ball

Aviators' Ball – an upscale fundraising celebration to benefit the Ronald McDonald Houses in Ann Arbor and Detroit Michigan raising funds for families of children who are ill and undergoing serious treatment.

Child & Family Services

Provides former Michigan members (adult adoptees, birth parents, adult siblings, and adoptive parents) with post-adoption services and intermediary search services.

Child & Family Services of Michigan, Inc.

Adoption and other programs directed at strengthening Michigan's children and families.

Children's Leukemia Foundation of Michigan

Statewide organization which provides information, financial assistance, and emotional support to families of adults and children affected by leukemia, lymphoma, and other related blood disorders.

eTeach

A shared environmental education calendar for thirteen non-profit organizations across Northwest Lower Michigan.

eTeach.net

A site shared environmental education calendar for thirteen non-profit organizations across Northwest Lower Michigan.

Food Bank of South Central Michigan

A non-profit hunger-relief network, providing food, advocacy and education on hunger issues, linking 225 non-profit agencies in south central Michigan.

Food Bank of South Central Michigan

Fights hunger by linking non-profit member agencies with food suppliers. News, hunger statistics, photograph gallery, and links.

Grand Masonic Lodge of Michigan

Free and Accepted Masons. General and membership information, subordinate lodge and appendant body links, officer listing and programs.

Visited the so-called "litmustest" website and I got one word for them:

CULT

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gkmcnees@comcast.net wrote:

> Calvinists claim that man is not saved "against his will."
> But the procedure of God regenerating them without
> their will is like putting one to sleep,

No, it's just the opposite. It's like waking someone
up. They have expressed no will to either remain asleep
nor to wake. They're _asleep_; they don't have a will.
God wakes them up, just like He called Lazarus out of
the tomb.


>> I find it appalling that you say such wicked things about people
>> without exerting even the smallest effort to understand what
>> they believe, but instead make up some other things to put
>> into their mouths so that you can pretend you are clever when
>> you rebut them.
>
> You should talk! You do much worse.

When? I don't misrepresent your position. I draw conclusions
from it you don't like much and I use words like "chance"
instead of "opportunity", (which make no difference in the
point, but you seem to think connotations are doctrine.)

But at no point do I say "Gary believes the Koran is true".

> It is their doctirne that is wicked and false,
> not the persons believing the fasle doctrines.

That's not the point. You are _misrepresenting_ their
doctrines. The doctrines you call "false", nobody
holds. (Hardly anyone is that simple-minded. (Bart
says, with uncharacteristic optimism.))



> The Calvinist doctrine is that God first regenerates, then
> the person is enabled to hear and believe the gospel.

No, regeration IS the enabling. Regeneration is the
granting of faith. I sure don't know what you think it
is. You seem to think that a person can first hear and
believe the Gospel _without_ being regenerated. Well, if
he believes before (logically OR temporally) regeneration,
then what is regeneration. Believing saves him. Regeneration
is unnecessary then.



>> > John 4:41 And many more believed because of his own word;
>>
>> And specifically, and in stark contrast to what Gary says,
>> they did not believe because they free chose to. If they
>> believed because of His word, then it was God caused the
>> belief and not the men. How often can we make the same
>> point to you and you still not get it. (I don't mean
>> "agree with it", just "understand it.)
>
> Calvinists, not Lutherans like you evidently, teach that man cannot
> believe the gospel until after God regenerates them. Hence when
> the scripture states that they believed when they heard the