Calvinism is Gospel !

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The “had been appointed to eternal life” or the “appointment to eternal life” had occurred before they heard and believed the gospel that was presented by Paul and Barnabas. However, the wording does not require that this appointment to eternal life must be a reference to eternity past. I

False, because Eternal life was appointed/promised before the world began Titus 1:2

2 In hope of eternal life, which God, that cannot lie, promised before the world began;

Now who was it promised to b4 the world began ? The Heirs Heb 1:14

14 Are they not all ministering spirits, sent forth to minister for them who shall be heirs of salvation?

Salvation and Eternal life are mostly interchangeable in Heirship Titus 3 7

That being justified by his grace, we should be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life.

 

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Calvinism is the Gospel for its doctrines of Grace set the foundation for Salvation by Grace, This makes it imperative to start with total inability of man in the matters of God and Salvation, because man is dead in sin from the start. Jesus said to His disciples this Matt 19:23-26

23 Then said Jesus unto his disciples, Verily I say unto you, That a rich man shall hardly enter into the kingdom of heaven.

24 And again I say unto you, It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.

25 ;When his disciples heard it, they were exceedingly amazed, saying, Who then can be saved?

26 But Jesus beheld them, and said unto them, With men this is impossible; but with God all things are possible.

Hence being saved, with men its impossible ! Salvation is only possible with God, only He can save, and that by Grace !

Grace finds the sinner dead in trespasses and sins Eph 2:5

Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved)

There are no conditions a dead person can act, he is at the mercy of God ! Hence with God all things are possible.

 

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Calvinism is the Gospel for its doctrines of Grace :

What must be understood is the fact that grace in salvation reveals the Sovereignty of God, His choice of man, His saving a man, etc. Grace reveals what God has done, not what He has allegedly enabled a man to do. Grace points to God only, not God and man. https://www.godsonlygospel.com/by-grace-alone-35

Tulip are those Grace Doctrines which show why and how Salvation is all of Grace. And quite frankly, man we naturally rebel against such Doctrines,

 

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The key principle which releases the Truth of God is GRACE. GRACE IS THE KEY! Salvation is by grace, and the Gospel is the Gospel of the grace of God in the salvation of His people. The Gospel is the Good News, the Message which teaches salvation by grace alone. The bad news is works do not save. The Good News is GOD SAVES BY GRACE! GOD DOING IS THE KEY! God graces His people with salvation. Grace is about what God has done to save His people from their sins, and how He saves His people from their sins. Grace is God doing, salvation is what God has done and all of this is testified to by the Spirit of Truth in God's Gospel of Truth. GRACE IS GOD IN ACTION NOT GOD AND MAN IN TANDEM https://www.godsonlygospel.com/by-grace-alone-36

 

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Now it is true that the Gospel is to be preached, or proclaimed to all, but its also just as true that it should be made clear that Christs atoning death wasn't for all, but specifically for His Sheep Jn 10 or His Church Eph 5 and that He accomplished salvation for them, meaning He saved them from their sins.

 

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The Blood of the Lamb: Full Atonement​

Scripture clearly shows the inability of any person to deliver himself from the guilt of sin and from the consequent sentence of God: death (Rom. 3:10-18). The law of God cannot provide a way of deliverance (Gal. 3:10). There is simply no way to escape the condemnation of the righteous God through our own efforts.

God provided the way out of this horrible situation. He sends His own Son, the second person of the Trinity, into our flesh (Gal. 4:4). Christ provided His life to redeem His people. He bore the curse of God to remove the curse from them (Gal. 3:13).

This payment was full and complete: once made for all of His own (Heb. 10:12). Nothing more need be added to meet the just requirements of the righteous God. Salvation has been merited by Christ’s perfect sacrifice. Neither man’s work nor the intercession of saints or other creatures can add to that which Christ has already accomplished (Heb. 10:14, 18).

This work of Christ was the fulfilment of God’s word spoken in Genesis 3:15. The “seed of the woman” crushed the head of the serpent on the cross. Christ accomplished all of this for His people—not for all people (Matt. 1:21). He would deliver all those “given Him of the Father” (John 6:37). He gives His life for “His sheep” (John 10:11). He did not give His life, then, for those whom He says are “not of my sheep” (John 10:26). Christ unconditionally assures “His sheep” that He gives them eternal life. They shall never perish nor shall any man pluck them out of His hand nor out of the hand of His Father (10:28-29).

We may not, then, tell all who hear, “Christ died for you.” Nor have we the right to say, “God loves all of you.”

This is the great wonder of salvation: that God should deliver poor, miserable sinners, no more deserving than any others, and provide them with forgiveness and adoption unto sons. This is the power of God’s grace which He has shown in Christ’s cross (Eph. 2:8-10). Salvation is of grace—all of grace, grace only to the glory of God’s name. We can never then boast in our works nor claim salvation on the basis of what man does.

Do you know this great Saviour? Do you belong to Him because He has redeemed you of your sins? Then you are blessed indeed. Are you troubled of heart? Are you weary because of your sins? To such Christ says, “Come unto me … and I will give you rest” (Matt. 11:28). With the apostle Paul, we too can state emphatically, “Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved and thy house!” (Acts 16:31). Rev. Hanko

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