4 BOCNEWS.com DECEMBER 2018 1. Joshua's Troop - Another Chance 2. Walter Hawkins - Legacy Collection 2 3. Casting Crowns - Only Jesus 4. For King & Country - Burn The Ships 5. David & Tamela Mann - Us Against The World 6. Brent Jones - Open Your Mouth & Say Something 7. Jonathan Nelson - Declarations 8. Chris Tomlin - Holy Roar 9. Israel - Road To Demaskus 10 . Gawvi -Panorama What About Calvinism? Todays modern day, mainstream denomination and non denominational church has slowly evolved into a religion comprised of many winds of teachings. This maze has all been accepted by most church organizations, both small and large, for the sake of church growth, love, unity and prosperity. Today, pastors are offering a new custom fit Jesus of your choice, along with a new revised interpreta- tion of Biblical standards, guaranteed to protect you from persecution. There is the hyper grace movement that has elimi- nated the word REPENT right out of the Bible (Jude 3-4, Rev ch's 2-3). We are dealing with the health wealth and prosparity church that cares more about the money instead of the Soon Coming of our Lord (1Tim 6:3-15, 2 Pet 2:1-3). We are dealing with the One World Ecumenical movement that saying, "Jesus is not the only WAY to the Father, and that ALL reli- gions will make it to heaven." We are dealing with those who teach that as long as you say that your a Christian, your saved (1Corinth 6:9-13, Heb 10:26). We have the "once saved always saved" group that has changed the grace of God into a deliberate life of immorality. All of the above has eliminated much of the teachings of Jesus Christ and His origional early NT apostles in order to support their beliefs. Many today believe that God is now handing down fresh revelation from behind popular pulpits. "The new age of GRACE and PROSPERITY" (1Corinth 15:1-2, 2 Corinth11:1-15, 2Tim 4:1-8). Now, the "Christian's" mentioned above, for the most part are real open to their beliefs and interpre- tation of scripture. However, there are those who are hiding in the closet. Lets take a look at another growing, yet confusing faith. Calvinism has been accepted as a Christian faith, even though they have eliminated the Biblical teaching of "FREE CHOICE," to receive or reject Jesus as your Savior. They have their different ways of thinking just like most main stream Christians. Most Calvinists believe in their own interpretation of the words predes- tined, forknowledge, chosen and election (Rom 8:28-30, Eph 1:3- 13). For the most part, they believe that from the beginning, God cre- ated ALL people, each born with the sinful nature. They believe, according their interpritation of the words predestined, foreknowl- edge, chosen and election, that God CHOSE from the beginning of time, who would and who wouldn't be His chosen elect. They believe that those who claim to be Christian's never really made the free choice to receive or reject Jesus as their Savior while alive here on earth, and that God made that choice for them. They believe that when someone lead them to the Lord by saying a sinners prayer, they were not making the choice to repent and accept the Lord, but rather accepting the fact that they were already chosen from the beginning of time. Unfortunately, this theological thinking throws a huge wrench into the Biblical salvation message. If their interpretation of the Bible is correct, that God created ALL people with the sin nature, yet from the beginning of time, chose only some to be saved and others to be rejected, then what are we to do with the scriptures that say, "For God so loved the world that He gave His only Son, that WHOEVER believes in Him shall not perish but have eter- nal life?" The words "WHOEVER BELIEVES" clearly indicates free choice while alive here on earth. "For God is not slow in keeping His promises as some understand slowness. He is patient with you not wanting ANYONE to perish but for EVERYONE to come to repen- tance" (2Pet 3:9). "That ALL who call upon the Name of the Lord to be saved" (Acts 2:21). Most Calvinists, concerning these Bible verses, will interpret the words WHOEVER, EVERYONE and ALL, to mean God's predeter- mined chosen and elect, and not all of His creation. If their theolagy is correct, that God created ALL people with the sinful nature, yet chosing only SOME to be His chosen elect, without giving them a free choice to receive or reject Jesus as their Savior, while alive on this earth, then what are we to think about the people in the days of Noah and Lot who were not chosen to be saved? Did they have a choice to repent? Did it matter if they made the choice to repent? If the Calvinists theological thinking is correct, then that would mean that God created all people only to chose some to be saved and the rest to be drowned in the flood of Noah's day, and cooked in the fire and brimstone in Lots day, and then inciner- ated in Hell forever, without giving the rejected a say so in the matter. I'm not convinced that most who claim to be Calvinists realy understand what the early 1550's teacher, John Calvin was teaching. The main mod- ern day promoter of Calvinism, John McAurthor, is still hiding in the closet as he presents a garbled and mixed message within his study bible, trying to decide whether or not he stands with the Armenian faith or Calvinism (study notes-Heb 6:4-6). Their reasoning and argument lies within a few controversial topics. "What about the person who By Michael Forti END TIMES Michael Forti If the Calvinists theological thinking is correct, then that would mean that God created all people only to chose some to be saved and the rest to be drowned in the flood of Noah's day, and cooked in the fire and brimstone in Lots day, and then incinerated in Hell forever, without giving the rejected a say so in the matter. Continued on Page 9