Reformed Theology is a True Representation of The Gospel

“I hope my opponent will give a positive line of argumentation that would meet his burden of proof and something that would be able to resist the floodgate of obvious and natural objections that preclude any reality of a monergistic view.” Wish granted. I thank you for your arguments and will attempt to articulate my rebuttal as clearly and effectively as possible. 1). The dangerous consequences for any Calvinistic idea of eternal security if it is wrong. It seems you do not understand the basics of Calvinism. I will respond to your hypothetical example. “ Imagine you believe in a view of eternal security that is monergistic. You believe that God will save you no matter what you do. You teach this view to 10,000 people who believe your teachings. Now imagine that you stand before God at the Judgment Seat. God states to you “You were Wrong!” He further states not only were you wrong by never pursuing Holiness but also that everyone you taught believed you. You have 10,000 people lined up behind you and they are all with you. None of you are going to Heaven.” This premise is ridiculous. In the section that I have underlined I am taking note that you are speaking on behalf of God and claiming to know exactly how he would feel or what he would say in your hypothetical situation. Are you God?... Where is your scripture to back up what are supposedly God’s words? Second of all, there is eternal security in Christ. Do you believe he can lose a Christian? That the hand that saves is not enough to hold you in his grasp? John 10-26-29 “but you do not believe because you are not among my sheep, no one will snatch them out of my hand. 29 My Father, who has given them to me,[a] is greater than all, and no one is able to snatch them out of the Father's hand.” And to further back up that a TRUE Christian cannot lose his salvation. 1 John 3:6 “Anyone who continues to live in him will not sin. But anyone who keeps on sinning does not know him or understand who he is.” In order to understand the concept of Calvinism more clearly you must understand this fact. THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS FREE WILL. It is nowhere in scripture. Ephesians 2:1-5 And you were dead in the trespasses and sins.” Through Christ you are saved, before you were a Christian you were DEAD in your sins, according to that logic it is obvious to conclude that DEAD PEOPLE DON’T MAKE CHOICES Since the very beginning man has rebelled against God, scorned him, hated him, and fought him since birth. God did not make you evil; THIS was by your own choice. Now you might say, “Oh that’s not true! I never chose to be evil!” Then I say, “Yes you have.” What have you done since birth? You have hated people, lusted, stolen, cheated, lied, sometimes doing these things even subconsciously! You’ve rebelled against God, resented him. You, me, everyone, is guilty of this and why? This is the extent of our depravity. You have no farther to look than yourself. It is infallibly evident and no one can deny they are guilty. This is man’s nature, it is bent towards sin, that is the choice we made and will always make unless someone intervenes on our behalf. A being cannot not act against their nature, God is all-powerful and perfect. He cannot sin or lose control, That is impossible, his nature is omnipotence and perfection. Birds cannot grow fins and swim, hippos cannot grow wings and fly no matter how much they might will it, it cannot happen. Man can make choices; Pepsi or Coke, red or blue, Playstation or Xbox, sweater or jacket..etc. These choices are within his constraints. Yes, he can choose whether or not to rob a bank and be of moral character, but apart from God’s intervention, sin and self-gratification will always be the forefront of his life, in one way or another. All he wants and has ever wanted is sin, it is impossible to save himself from the Hell he deserves. Before his flood.. Genesis 6:5-6 The LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intention of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. 6 And the LORD regretted that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him to his heart. After the flood.. Genesis 8:21 “I will never again curse the ground because of the human race, even though everything they think or imagine is bent toward evil from childhood.” BUT HERE IS THE GOOD NEWS! Though we were sinners Christ came down and paid the penalty for us that we might be saved. Who is “we” you might ask? Well let’s review. 1) Jesus says in Matthew 22:14 “For many are called, but few are chosen.” 2) 2 Timothy 1:9 For God saved us and called us to live a holy life. He did this, not because we deserved it, but because that was his plan from before the beginning of time—to show us his grace through Christ Jesus. 3) 1 John 4:10 This is real love—not that we loved God, but thathe loved us and sent his Son as a sacrifice to take away our sins. 4) John 15:16 You didn’t choose me. I chose you. I appointed you to go and produce lasting fruit, so that the Father will give you whatever you ask for, using my name. 5) Romans 8:29 For God knew his people in advance, and he chose them to become like his Son, so that his Son would be the firstborn among many brothers and sisters. These passages make it infallibly clear. Though we were yet sinners and were all destined for Hell by our own accord. God, as a loving father, pleads, and is patient and long suffering, slow to anger, and draws those destined to be his church near to him while others are allowed to continue their path to destruction, which they had chose themselves. NO person in Hell can ultimately blame God for their punishment, they chose death. **********THIS PART’S VERY IMPORTANT!************ In the same way NO ONE can confess that they are good enough to choose God. Synergism basically means “Yes God is good and offers a chance for me to be saved, but I’m the one who chose God so I’m good enough all by myself to make that choice.” IF YOU COULD CHOOSE TO BE SAVED WHY WOULD YOU NEED A SAVIOR IN THE FIRST PLACE?? If you were caught out the middle of the ocean, could you choose whether or not a boat would come by to save you? NO! Such a choice is out of your nature to control! If synergism was correct, that would mean Christ would have died, theoretically, FOR NOTHING! If Jesuse died for the sake of the entire world and gave everyone a choice, then everyone could all have the option to choose Hell and proceed to do so! Thereby rendering Christ’s sacrifice worthless! This my friends, is where synergism with an almighty, omnipotent God concludes to make NO LOGICAL SENSE. 2.) Scripture should be interpreted in light of God’s Justice rather than merely His Sovereignty Would God’s Sovereignty not coincide with his justice? I have spoken enough in my previous argument of God’s justice and sovereignty and it’s obvious they go hand in hand and I do not glorify one over the other so I will now go over my opponent’s analysis of John 3:16. If you are going to try and use this one bible verse to try and refute all of Reformed theology it will not work. Since my opponent is very keen on original Greek context this should come to no surprise to him, this verse does state “whoever will believe” but does not go in detail as to HOW they will believe or where this belief comes about. The rest of the bible clearly establishes by their own choice or merit it is impossible, but thankfully… Matthew 19:26 Jesus looked at them and said, “With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.” This verse in original Greek context actually implies a particular people not the entire world, though I have not the room to explain, here is an article excellently worded and cited from scripture that better describes this.. http://www.reformationtheology.com...Regretfully,I ran out of room to finish the majority of my argument. I hope my opponent will respond in a positive way and keep an open mind.