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Thanks, Cheryl! You didn’t have to but so glad you did. Otherwise, I’d end up making a hundred posts. Dear woman, you are SO brave to tackle the whole religion of Calvinism. It’s TRAGIC that people even want to believe the idea that Christ came to save only a segment of humanity. I think I’ve mentioned, before, I’ve gotten into arguements with five point Calvinists on the issue of what they would term LIMITED ATONEMENT. I think I even YELLED in ALL CAPS, at Tom McGovern when he said that 2 Peter 3:9 only applied to the ‘ELECT’. I said, “SO, IT DOESN’T MATTER TO YOU THAT YOUR BEST FRIEND OR PARENTS OR BROTHER OR SISTER, OR ALL OF THEM MIGHT NOT BE GOING TO HEAVEN BECAUSE GOD DECIDED THEY WOULD NOT BE AMONG THE ‘ELECT’ ?!?!?!?!” I mean I had a Cow and a calf! So, I need to ask Robin about 1 Tim 2:4-6, John 4:42, Romans 2:11, 1 Tim 5:21, 1 John 4:14 . If Jesus only intended to save so many, doesn’t it bother you? No one has free will. God decides who He’s going to save and the rest of humanity can go to hell. Literally. Does that sound like a God you want to believe in? I may have asked this before, and I apologize if I’m repeating myself, but it all comes down to the NATURE of GOD. Calvinists are fond of saying ‘God is SOVEREIGN’. So? Hitler was ‘SOVEREIGN’ in Germany. He had the power to murder millions of people just because he didn’t like them. He had the power to close businesses of Jewish business owners and arrest people for no reason. That’s Power. That’s authority. And we see that the nature of the man governs his actions. 1 John 4:7,8 says God is LOVE. Well, pardon me if you’re NOT a Dave Hunt ‘fan’, Robin, but “What LOVE IS THIS?” What kind of LOVE condemns the larger segment of humanity to eternal damnation without giving them a choice to decide whether or not to accept the offer of salvation?