I'd love to hear your perspective from when Cai was struggling with depression and not feeling God's presence, if you are willing. That video you posted of him made me cry because my mom has been in such a hellish pit of depression and I had a spark of hope that things can change for her 😭❤
You can lose your salvation if you choose to live in sin we cannot use God and do bad on purpose and then still expect to be saved we still have freewill so we get to choose to seek God or not accept Him or reject Him 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.”
I hear people say Calvinism is misunderstood, but John Calvin really teach the awful things people say he did. Same with Augustine, who also did that. Yes I also agree about eternal security. ❤️
When I think about hardships in the Bible I have to remind myself of the amount of time that the suffering happened and compare that to my own life. Then the relatively short period of my own life comes into perspective.
We do not have to live with depression or anxiety or anything bad like that because God can heal us and help us who the Son sets free is free indeed so He makes us completely free and He does everything perfectly but if there is still a problem then something is still wrong and with Gods help let us get to the root of it 😊❤
In this comment I provide direct quotes from John Calvin. The unique beliefs of Calvinism that differentiate it from other denominations is total depravity, unconditional election, limited atonement, irresistible grace, perseverance of the saints, prefaith regeneration and determinism “…salvation is freely offered to some while others are barred from access to it.” *(John Calvin, Institutes of Christian Religion, Book 3, Chapter 21, Paragraph 5)* The gospel in Christianity is that salvation is freely offered to everyone and no one is hopeless because of Jesus. Calvinism is a perversion of Christianity. This is a dangerous, deceptive, and unbiblical system of doctrines. The good news is that Jesus came as a Savior *for everyone* and *anyone* can believe in Him and be saved. Yet the false teachings of calvinism would have you replace the bolded words with "the elect"- defined as preselected individuals God chose to favor before they were born to the ignoring of everyone else. The gospel in calvinism is ONLY good news for "the elect", having God pass over most people from before they were born leaving them completely hopeless in this world and doomed for hell with no way of ever being saved. “We call predestination God’s eternal decree, by which he compacted with himself *what he willed to become of each man. For all are not created in equal condition; rather, eternal life is fore-ordained for some, eternal damnation for others*.” *(John Calvin, Institutes of Christian Religion, Book 3, Chapter 21, Paragraph 5)* In Christianity God wills for everyone to repent, to come to the knowledge of the truth, and be saved. But John Calvin says that God has willed for salvation only for some and has willed for eternal damnation for others before they were born. “Therefore, those whom God passes over, he condemns; and this he does for no other reason than that he wills to exclude them from the inheritance which he predestines for his own children.” *(John Calvin, Institutes of Christian Religion, Book 3, Chapter 23, Paragraph 1)* God passes over over people and condemns them for no reason but because that is just what He wants? God wants to exclude everyone who he didn't pick to save before the foundations of the world and has left them completely hopeless in the world because that is what He wanted? This is not Christianity. “Individuals are born, who are *doomed from the womb* to certain death, and are to glorify him by their destruction.” *(John Calvin, Institutes of Christian Religion, Book 3, Chapter 23, Paragraph 6)* Not Christianity. Christianity is a gospel of hope for all mankind. Jesus is the light of the world who has brought good tidings of great joy for all men. No one is hopeless and God actually WANTS everyone to be saved and none to perish. John Calvin, of course through his defintion of "election, believes that most babies are "doomed from the womb" being not picked by God to be "among the elect". There are only a small group of people in this world given any hope by God, and God has left everyone else completely hopeless and no way to ever have their sins forgiven and covered since Calvinists believe in "limited atonement". Calvinism has a false interpretation on the biblical doctrines of "election" and "predestination" please seek this out there are a lot of resources to learn beyond an echo chamber of calvinism. I would recommend Jason Breda from "LivingChristian" he was a calvinist for 10 years and was on his way to become a pastor at a calvinist church. And I would recommend Alana from "Alanal" she was a calvinist for 19 years. I was actually subbed to her channel many years ago when she was still a calvinist but I just loved her heart and her homemaking/wife/homeschool videos... about 4 years ago she discovered that calvinism was unbiblical and she shares her story. I also would recommend "Greatlightstudios" He has a lot of information about this and provides a verse by verse interpretation of Romans 9 interpreting scripture with scripture.