Calvinism is Not Fatalism

YourCalvinist (Podcast) with Keith Foskey

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On this episode of Conversations with a Calvinist, Pastor Keith Foskey addresses a recent discussion which arose over the question of praying for the lost. Do our prayers matter? Does Calvinism teach that what we do makes no difference? Is Calvinism just another word for fatalism? He discusses this subject on today's program.
Conversations with a Calvinist is the podcast ministry of Pastor Keith Foskey. If you want to learn more about Pastor Keith and his ministry at Sovereign Grace Family Church in Jacksonville, FL, visit www.SGFCjax.org.
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@SamanthaGCox Год назад

Oh! I am so happy to hear this! I had become finally convinced of predestination, but had become very fatalistic and even sad about it, but you have made it make sense! I no longer feel hopeless about it. Thank you.!

@80scottyboy 8 месяцев назад

I recently finished “evangelism and the sovereignty of God” by JI packer. He does a masterful job bringing a biblical balance to this discussion. God is in charge of salvation, and we are duty bound to evangelize and are a means of God’s will coming about. Both sides are true, whether we can grasp it all or not. Trust God to save, and do everything in your power to call the lost to faith.

@jeremynethercutt206 5 месяцев назад

🙏 amen

@aumtheaum3827 Год назад

I’m not going to stop ask for the salvation of my loved ones.

@ricknightengale5339 Год назад

1. Pre-determinism without free will cannot be compatible with scripture. The Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil clearly demonstrates that God, knowing what will happen and allowing it(predestination), values the principle of free will. The example of conception doesn’t account for the free will and choice of the child to be conceived. 2. God is going to do what He is going to do, I don’t need my 7 yr old son to help me put up our camping tent. And it might even be faster without him, but I want him to accompany me of his own will and grow as a person because of what we accomplish together.

@thethreeofus2620 4 месяца назад

I've never seen an anti Calvinist online properly represent that perspective. It's always fatalism, burning babies in hell, and a parade of other caricatures.

@angelajoy6789 Год назад

It seems when people charge Calvinists with being unbiblical, or even heretical; see hyper-Calvinism as what Calvinism is.

@jbishsr Год назад

I agree. Their rejection is based on a hypercalvinistic misrepresentation of reformed theology. And they don't even know the difference. Most are unstudied and believe what someone incorrectly told them. "Calvinism bad, Arminianism good" ugh!

@TruePatriotDave Год назад

Without faith it is impossible to please God. And as you mentioned in the Bible it says faith comes by hearing and hearing by the Word of God(Christ). Jesus gave us the Great Commission to spread the Gospel. What that “hyper hyper Calvinist” is a lazy theology and borders on heresy because he says it doesn’t require any saving faith in Christ. Jesus said that the harvest is plenty but the laborers are few. We need to be laborers for Christ.

@jbishsr Год назад

Thank you, Brother Keith. I watch alot of your more recent stuff but I picked this up today from your response to 5solas on twitter about Calvinistic misconceptions. Enjoyed this very much and brought peace to how to have conversations in light of the misconceptions!

@marymack1 10 месяцев назад

It's a privilege and joy to pray for others!

@phil3924 Год назад

That guy might have been a Primitive Baptist.

@wesleydickens9283 Год назад

Some folks are not Hyper Calvinist, they're just hyper.

@pipkinrahl7264 5 месяцев назад

It's demonic

@wesleystoway6887 5 месяцев назад

Yes exactly!

@mdxcx3msr Год назад

Great explanation. Even the human father knows what his child wants but still wants them to ask.

@PatrickSteil Год назад

So how is mainstream Calvinism different from Catholicism in terms of the doctrine of Salvation?

@AustinGonder Год назад

Because it is by grace alone through faith alone in Christ alone.

@PatrickSteil Год назад

@@AustinGonder Catholicism can agree that: 1. It is by God's Grace that exist, that we are alive, and that we have access to His saving redemption. He makes this accessible freely to us. 2. It is also by God's grace that he gives us the ability to respond to His Grace by submitting our will to Him. 3. When we respond to His Grace by putting our TRUST in him we participate in His New Covenant in Jesus. We sign the covenant. 4. Faith is trusting of our Lord for our very breath and every aspect of our lives. This is a process that we grow in every day. Is what you are saying something different?

@ingenparks Год назад

Calvinism holds that God's saving grace cannot be denied. The buzzword is "irresistible grace". God saves whom he wills to save, and does not ask permission (God is sovereign, so he doesn't need to). God does not ask permission because he would be rejected, because all humans are "totally depraved", enslaved to sin (St. Paul's words) and have their free will shackled by original sin. Think of free will as the ability to walk in any direction, but not jump or climb, and original sin as a cliff. In this formulation, faith is the *result* of salvation, not its cause. Christ saves by his sacrifice, and this salvation causes faith, just as the disciples did not believe the would be raised until he WAS raised. The importance of this is that it is impossible to buy salvation by good works, rather, good works come about because one has been saved, granting the ability to choose good over evil (corollary: if you aren't saved, you will never do truly unselfish good deed, see "you will know them by their fruits"). Hope that clears things up. My the peace of Christ be with you!

@PatrickSteil Год назад

@@ingenparks Thank you for that clear explanation!