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Doctrinal Dictionaries / August 15, 2023

A Dictionary of Catechisms from Puritan, Reformed, and several other denominations, such as Baptists, Broadus, Gadsby, Owen, etc.

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Problems with Total Depravity or Inability examines the flaws and errors of the Calvinist teaching of Total Depravity (which is really total inability, man is not responsible for his own actions and sins, because he cannot choose sin or obeying God). This is a short article about this point of Calvinism.
The argument of the Calvinists breaks down completely when we examine the Bible and find examples of various individuals that did please God with their lives. Calvinists says that there is nothing at all that any person can do to please God. Yet God views our lives, and in the Bible, certain people did please God like Noah. Maybe the difference was Noah’s life was "better" than everybody's else's wicked lives, but even from that standpoint, God still acted greatly because of Noah's faith and daily relationship with God. When God saves you and your family and kills everybody else on planet earth, that means something.
The bottom line: Calvinism does not take into consideration the places where God looked with approval on various people's lives. Their "system" is fatally flawed, therefore. Good works never save anybody, we can affirm this as true. But the "bottom line" here is that God does approve and disapprove different people's lives. Salvation is only by faith in Jesus Christ the Savior. But what you are depends on what you do. God judges every person, even the elect, and He rewards them as such. Things that God dislikes, God chastises those in hell, for the saved, God causes the elect to lose some of their heavenly rewards for their sins, if not also causing them problems in earth before they die.
Problems with Total Depravity or Inability.

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pc61 Resisting Peer Pressure, Christian Cowards We analyze the pressure of unsaved friends on the Christian.
Topics: We are not to be Conformed, but be Transformed | Be Careful with your Friends | Don’t Walk with Gossips | Shouting for no Good Reason | Do not Walk with Foolish People | Seek to walk with Good People.
Proverbs 4:14 Enter not into the path of the wicked, and go not in the way of evil men. 15 Avoid it, pass not by it, turn from it, and pass away. 27:12 A prudent man foreseeth the evil, and hideth himself; but the simple pass on, and are punished.
Read the Tract: pc61 Resisting Peer Pressure, Christian Cowards

Tracts Group 2

ch34 Brethren, we must not fight! explains why Christians should not be contentious, especially between brethren.
Topics: Because it is important? | Irritating one another | Biting and wasting away | The Relationship Between One Another | Upholding one another and putting up with one another | Forgiving one another | Exhorting and teaching you | Cheer up and build yourselves.
Read/Download Tract: Note: There are two issues that are distinct. We should not fight among ourselves as brethren of the same faith and practice. The opposite issue is that we should contend for the faith once delivered to the saints. Discerning which is which is very essential.