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lsenders@hotmail.com wrote:
> Gary McNees wrote:
>
>>lsenders@hotmail.com wrote:
>>
>>>Gary McNees wrote:
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>>>
>>>
>>>>The Calvinists see no error, no harm, no problem, in
>>>>teaching that God actually hates (savingly) most of His creatures.
>>>
>>>
>>>This is the exact same line of argumentation of those who wish to
>
> see
>
>>>an end to capital punishment. You both share in the very same
>>>presuppositional base.
>>
>>No we don't. I am in favor of capital punishment, when the rules of
>>justice are followed in the OT. And this has nothing whatsoever to do
>
>
>>with my above statement. It is one thing to punish the guilty when
>
> they
>
>>are guilty because they chose to sin. It is quite another to punish
>>those who have no choice in the matter, (remember, you deny free
>
> will).
>
> No, I do not deny free will.

Calvin and Luther did. Most Calvinists do.

> I deny choice.

By the will one chooses, after he deliberates. So if the will must
choose a single thing, it is not free. So, you deny free will.

> I deny choice even for
> the regenerated man who operates under the flesh.

But it is the CHOICE of the regenerate man to either operate under the
flesh or not to.

> Choice is never
> between Godly good and evil except in the case of the regenerate man.

I agree, except that God purposely makes the unregenerate man able to
Believe in Christ.

> Only he has this. All men have free will. It is part of having the
> image of God within us.

What does free will mean when there are no choices?

>>According to Calvinism, God has caused all to be born Totally
>
> Depraved,
>
>>where this means that all men are unable to come to Christ and
>
> receive
>
>>the free gift of salvation which God offers by simple faith in Christ
>
>
>>and his work.
>
>
> "No man seeks after God."

You repeat this like a magic mantra. This has been discussed
ad nauseam. And even you do not believe it! Does the regenerate
man seek after God?

>>They have no free will to respond to God's command to
>>repent and believe.

Yes they are enabled by Christ's drawing to come to Him.
God said so.

> They have free will. That was never lost. However, their choices are
> always ego centric and never, ever, able to resurrect themselves to
> incline themselves to godliness. Please understand the distinctions.

Again I agree that man cannot "resurrect himself," nor ca