The Salvation Recipients of God’s Mercy
Calvinism is a LIE FROM HELL. Calvinism would have you believe that God pours out his saving mercy on some,
but not others who are equally as evil and will never have a chance to get his mercy to be saved from the lake of fire! In other words, Calvinism teaches double predestination – one is chosen by God apart from freewill unto salvation and he cannot ever get out of it, while ALL others are overlooked (the non elect) and will never have an opportunity to get God’s mercy for salvation. How irrational and contradictory to the word of God that concept is! Such is a repulsive religious myth, which distorts grace, God himself and minimizes the dangers of sin.
but not others who are equally as evil and will never have a chance to get his mercy to be saved from the lake of fire! In other words, Calvinism teaches double predestination – one is chosen by God apart from freewill unto salvation and he cannot ever get out of it, while ALL others are overlooked (the non elect) and will never have an opportunity to get God’s mercy for salvation. How irrational and contradictory to the word of God that concept is! Such is a repulsive religious myth, which distorts grace, God himself and minimizes the dangers of sin.What Is God like Regarding His MERCY?
The truth is, God delights to show mercy and is full of mercy:
Who is a God like you, who pardons sin and forgives the transgression of the remnant of his inheritance? You do not stay angry forever but DELIGHT TO SHOW MERCY. (Micah 7:18)
As you know, we consider blessed those who have persevered. You have heard of Job’s perseverance and have seen what the Lord finally brought about. THE LORD IS FULL OF COMPASSION AND MERCY. (James 5:11)
God’s Mercy and The HOPE of Eternal Life
Calvinists don’t want you to know the following passage about salvation and the HOPE of eternal life for those already saved:
He saved us, not because of righteous things we had done, but because of his mercy. He saved us through the washing of rebirth and renewal by the Holy Spirit, whom he poured out on us generously through Jesus Christ our Savior, so that, having been justified by his grace, we might become heirs having the hope of eternal life. (Titus 3:5-7)
We become the people of God (or children of God) by receiving God’s mercy:
Once you were not a people, but now you are the people of God; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy. (1 Pet 2:10)
Calvinists Love Romans 9 and Want Us To Exclusively Focus On It:
For he says to Moses, “I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.”It does not, therefore, depend on man’s desire or effort, but on God’s mercy. For the Scripture says to Pharaoh: “I raised you up for this very purpose, that I might display my power in you and that my name might be proclaimed in all the earth.” Therefore God has mercy on whom he wants to have mercy, and he hardens whom he wants to harden. One of you will say to me: “Then why does God still blame us? For who resists his will?” (Rom 9:15-19)
Stephen believed his audience always RESISTED the Holy Spirit (and God’s will) — Acts 7:51! Mercy for Pharaoh’s salvation is NOT the subject there, but it is in Romans 11:32 (2 chapters later):
For God has bound all men over to disobedience so that he may have mercy on them all. (Rom 11:32)
All people who have disobeyed are potential recipients of God’s saving mercy, but not all receive his mercy! WHY is the big question? Because they don’t meet the conditions for his mercy, which are listed throughout scripture:
He who conceals his sins does not prosper, but whoever confesses and renounces them finds mercy. (Prov 28:13)
Let the wicked forsake his way and the evil man his thoughts. Let him turn to the LORD, and he will have mercy on him, and to our God, for he will freely pardon. (Isa 55:7)
Blessed are the merciful, for they will be shown mercy. (Mat 5:7)For if you forgive men when they sin against you, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. But if you do not forgive men their sins, your Father will not forgive your sins. (Mat 6:14,15)
Then the master called the servant in. “You wicked servant,” he said, “I canceled all that debt of yours because you begged me to. Shouldn’t you have had mercy on your fellow servant just as I had on you?” (Mat 18:32,33)
His mercy extends to those who fear him, from generation to generation. (Luke 1:50)
But the tax collector stood at a distance. He would not even look up to heaven, but beat his breast and said, “God, have mercy on me, a sinner.” I tell you that this man, rather than the other, went home justified before God. For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted. (Luke 18:13,14)
To the saved — those set free from their sin addictions (Rom. 6:22) and who find rest for their souls (Mt. 11:29) — we read:
Therefore, I urge you, brothers, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God–this is your spiritual act of worship. (Rom 12:1)
In other words, because you were saved by God’s mercy, offer your bodies as living sacrifices. Again, this shows we are saved by mercy (as well as by grace – Eph. 2:5,8). If you are a slave to sin, please know it is YOUR CHOICE to come to Jesus for eternal life or remain a child of the devil, while you continue on the road to HELL. YOU have freewill to choose JESUS or sin. It is your choice, but it is also your eternity! Remember you can be a recipient of God’s saving mercy. Finally, all Christians need to fight against Calvinism and other cults, which distort these vital salvation truths.
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