Josh/Dennis: Mere sophistry. If I can’t make that choice, then I’ve no choice but to be a Calvinist, no? And if I can, then how do I choose God in the first place?

A perception of choice is not the same as a choice. I perceive that I chose Christ, but I now understand that He chose me. My will, from my perspective once in bondage to sin, is now in bondage to God. From God’s perspective, I was chosen before the foundation of the world. Chosen for what? For a dalliance with Christ, an affair consummated but then abandoned? Or is He who began a good work in me faithful to complete it to the end?

Arguments run both ways, but it’s insulting to good people when the common definition of the word “choice” is used as “proof” of the fallacy of a doctrine which rests on strong scriptural support. Dennis, you especially should know better, since the common definitions of many word, like “father,” are often used as “proof” of the falseness of the church of Rome.

The silly nit-picking and fault-finding is obviously not limited to those within the reformed camp, eh? ⚔