Redeemed Thought

Most Calvinist reject…

redeemedthought — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 02:50:34 +0000

Most Calvinists reject as deplorable the following hyper-Calvinistic and destructive beliefs:

- that God is the author of sin and of evil
- that men have no will of their own, and secondary causes are of no effect
- that the number of the elect at any time may be known by men
- that it is wrong to evangelize
- that assurance of election must be sought prior to repentance and faith
- that men who have once sincerely professed belief are saved regardless of what they later do
- that God has chosen some races of men and has rejected others
- that the children of unbelievers dying in infancy are certainly damned
- that God does not command everyone to repent
- that the sacraments are not means of grace, but obstacles to salvation by faith alone.
- that the true church is only invisible, and salvation is not connected with the visible church
- that the Scriptures are intended to be interpreted by individuals only and not by the church.
- that no government is to be obeyed which does not acknowledge that Jesus is the Lord, or that Biblical Law is its source of authority
- that the grace of God does not work for the betterment of all men
- that saving faith is equivalent to belief in the doctrine of predestination
- that only Calvinists are Christians

I reject these destructive teachings and hope that this has given you a better understanding of what it means and what it does not mean to be a Calvinist/Reformed Christian.

Are you a Heretic?

redeemedthought — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 15:13:45 +0000

Click on the link below to find out if you are a heretic.

http://quizfarm.com/quizzes/new/svensvensven/are-you-a-heretic/

Singing Christ’s Praises

redeemedthought — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 01:43:04 +0000

Since then there is in us nothing but spiritual infection and leprosy and that we are corrupt in our iniquities, what shall we do? What remedy is there? Shall we go to seek help from the angels in Paradise? Alas! They can do nothing for us. No, we must come to our Lord Jesus Christ, who was willing to be disfigured from the top of His head even to the sole of His feet and was a mass of wounds, flogged with many stripes and crowned with thorns, nailed and fastened to the cross and pierced through the side. this is how we are healed; here is our true medicine, with which we must be content, and which we must embrace wholeheartedly, knowing that otherwise we can never have inward peace but must always be tormented and tortured to the extreme, unless Jesus Christ comforts us and appeases God’s wrath against us. When we are certain of that, we have cause to sing HIs praises, instead of being capable of nothing but trembling and confusion.

John Calvin, St Peter’s Church, Geneva
Wednesday June 29th, 1558

Let us all find the assurance that Jesus Christ our saviour has set us free from sin and it’s penalty, death, and let us find never ending joy in serving him!

Grace and Peace

Sin!

redeemedthought — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 01:20:31 +0000

I hope you saw the video thought it was funny but at the same time that it made you think about your life and where it’s at….

Grace and Peace

Amazed

redeemedthought — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 21:43:02 +0000

“Take my fret, take my fear
All I have, I’m leaving here
Be all my hopes, be all my dreams
You’re my delights, be my everything”

-David Crowder Band-

So it’s been a while but I finally came around to writing something new, (thanks to someone, they know who they are). The four verses above are just so amazing. How I wish I could always think like that when things look their darkest. To just be able to turn to God and say here God, here are my worries, my stress, my fears my guilt. And it’s something I have started to do, now I wake up every morning with a huge smile on my face stand in awe of God and his greatness. I started reading a new book called O Lord, How Long? Meditations on Evil and Suffering by D.A. Carson. This book isn’t going to give you the answer as to why evil and suffering take place and the author even says it. What he wants to accomplish is to make you aware that just because we are Christians doesn’t mean we are exempt from suffering. He says in the beginning of the book that if you live long enough you’ll eventually experience pain and suffering. But that’s just a part of life. How you deal with that depends on if you are wholly putting your trust into your saviour or if your only putting a percentage of it in Him and the other percentage your putting into either an ordinary human like a spouse or significant other(Psalm 118:8), or a career, or a hobby, or whatever the case may be, eventually that person or thing will disappoint you and will shake you to you to the very core of your existence. But if you put wholly trust in Jesus and just give him your frets and fears and struggles and what you see as obstacles in life, I can guarantee you that when hard times hit, you will not fall, nor stumble. Your rock of salvation Christ Jesus will hold you up and keep you firm and steady.

I wanna end this post with Psalm 43 and a challenge,

Vindicate me, O God, and defend my cause against

an ungodly people, from the decietful and unjust man deliver me!

For you are the God in whoim i take refuge; why have you rejected me?

Why do I go about mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?

Send out your light and your truth; let them lead me; let them bring me

to your holy hill and to your dwelling! Then I will go to the alter of God,

to God my exceeding joy, and I will praise you the the lyre, O God, MY God.

Why are you cast down, O my soul, and why are you in turmoil within me?

Hope in God; for I shall again praise him, MY salvation and MY God.

So I challenge anyone reading this, are you wholly putting trust in Christ? If not maybe it’s time to make a change.

Grace and Peace

-Ron-

Madd Hip Hop Truth!

redeemedthought — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 02:04:00 +0000

Vengeance Is Yours O Lord

redeemedthought — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 23:38:28 +0000

The last few weeks have been somewhat tough and riddled with life problems. But holding steadfast to God and his word has helped me out a lot. What has also helped me out was the fact that I’ve had so many brothers and sisters in Christ to talk to about my problems. So at this point you’re probably thinking what was his problem and what does vengeance have to do with it. Well my problem is personal so I’m not going to divulge it on the internet lol, but the part about vengeance is relevant to the situation. Many of us sometimes run into issues with people who do us some type of physical or emotional harm and many times as humans we react back and want to take vengeance on that person. Take for example the murder of a little girl, the father of that little girl would probably like to go out and hunt down the person that did that to his daughter, what man would not feel that way. But here’s the dilemma we run into–as Christians we must forgive. William Shakespeare said, “The rarer action is virtue than in vengeance,” basically it is a lot easier to get revenge than it is to forgive a person. But if we are true followers of Christ we need to follow his example. He was spat at, kicked, punched, whipped, ridiculed, hated, rejected, forsaken, and yet never once did he lift a finger up against anyone. Wow, is the word that comes to mind. Lets check out Psalm 94…

1 O LORD, God of vengeance,
   O God of vengeance, shine forth!
2 Rise up, O judge of the earth;
   repay to the proud what they deserve!
3O LORD,how long shall the wicked,
   how long shall the wicked exult?
4They pour out their arrogant words;
   all the evildoers boast.
5 They crush your people, O LORD,
   and afflict your heritage.
6They kill the widow and the sojourner,
   and murder the fatherless;
7 and they say, “The LORD does not see;
   the God of Jacob does not perceive.” 8 Understand, O dullest of the people!
   Fools, when will you be wise?
9 He who planted the ear, does he not hear?He who formed the eye, does he not see?

10He who disciplines the nations, does he not rebuke?He who teaches man knowledge—
11the LORD—knows the thoughts of man,
that they are but a breath.

12 Blessed is the man whom you discipline, O LORD,
   and whom you teach out of your law,
13to give him rest from days of trouble,
   until a pit is dug for the wicked.
14 For the LORD will not forsake his people;
   he will not abandon his heritage;
15 for justice will return to the righteous,
   and all the upright in heart will follow it.

16 Who rises up for me against the wicked?
   Who stands up for me against evildoers?
17If the LORD had not been my help,
   my soul would soon have lived in the land of silence.
18When I thought, ”My foot slips,”
   your steadfast love, O LORD, held me up.
19When the cares of my heart are many,
   your consolations cheer my soul.
20 Can wicked rulers be allied with you,
   those who frame injustice by statute?
21 They band together against the life of the righteous
   and condemn the innocent to death.
22But the LORD has become my stronghold,
   and my God he rock of my refuge.
23He will bring back on them their iniquity
   and wipe them out for their wickedness;
   the LORD our God will wipe them out.

So if you read that you’ll see how and why vengeance belongs to the LORD. We must not wish this upon anyone though. We must be careful and not condemn people because then we condemn ourselves as well. If someone offends you turn the other cheek or just love on them how God loves us. I tend to be a person who gets angry real quick over the dumbest smallest things, but slowly I am realizing that it’s not worth it. In the end it all in God’s hands, that person who you envy because they have millions of dollar and get whatever they want is not truly happy if Christ is not in his heart. All the criminals who you might think got a way scott free, their day will come to face judgement. I know it seems odd to say that but if we take a second and pause to think about it there has to be a final judgement or else then what would be the point of living a moral life? I could live as I please without fear of consequence besides the laws of man but if I can somehow avoid those then is there no consequences…. certainly not!

Its been a minute….

redeemedthought — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 03:05:35 +0000

Yea its been a minute…. but i’ll be back soon, just not today

Why the Bible?

redeemedthought — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 03:06:29 +0000

This is not Christianity, Nor is it God!

redeemedthought — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 23:11:12 +0000

This is just absurd I don’t even have words for this. I feel sorry for all those who are being deceived. This man is a convicted sex offender of children!! He preaches a false gospel, the miracles he does are not real. This is all just ridiculous.