The Calvinists eisegesis of John 6:55

[atpollard]

Mentioning Abraham's wife does not change a verse

Hello that was the entirety of your argument and it does nothing

to prove your theology, as was pointed out.

God told ABRAM to leave, and Abram took as many people with him as he could (obey God, but trust in your resources).

Abram decided to leave the land that God had sent him to and go to Egypt (obey God, until your plan seems better).

Abram chose to employ lies and deceit in Egypt (obey God, but trust in human scheming).

Clearly, God chose Abram out of all of humanity because of Abrams innate moral superiority.

Nothing in that story could POSSIBLY support a doctrine that God chooses and saves sinful people as a matter of 100% His grace and in spite of our lack of merit (the Doctrines of Grace).

 

[TomL]

God told ABRAM to leave, and Abram took as many people with him as he could (obey God, but trust in your resources).

The scriptures tells us, Abraham believed God and it was counted to him for righteousness (Genesis 15:6; Romans 4:3, 9, 22; Galatians 3; 6; James 2:23).

Hello, that in itself refutes the Calvinist idea of total inability.

He cannot do so according to Calvinism

You cannot escape his believing God by pointing out a single failure of Abraham concerning his wife
Can you deny his believing God is contrary to your doctrine?

Abram decided to leave the land that God had sent him to and go to Egypt (obey God, until your plan seems better).

Genesis 12:10 (LEB) — 10 And there was a famine in the land. And Abram went down to Egypt to dwell as an alien there, for the famine was severe in the land.

Abram chose to employ lies and deceit in Egypt (obey God, but trust in human scheming).

There you go with the wife thing.

She was actually a sister, the daughter of Abraham's father.

Genesis 20:12 (LEB) — 12 Besides, she is my sister, the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother. And she became my wife.

Sarai agreed

Here however is a thing toward God

Nehemiah 9:7–8 (LEB) — 7 You are Yahweh, the God who chose Abram and brought him from Ur of the Chaldeans and named him Abraham. 8 You found his heart faithful before you and made a covenant with him to give the land of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite, the Perizzite, the Jebusite and the Girgashite—to give it to his seed. And you have kept your word because you are righteous.

2 Chronicles 20:7 (LEB) — 7 O, our God, did you yourself not drive out the inhabitants of this land before your people Israel and give it to the descendants of Abraham your friend forever?

Um, in your theology, all hate God.

Isaiah 41:8 (LEB) — 8 But you, Israel, my servant, Jacob, whom I have chosen, you, the offspring of Abraham my friend,

God, however, seems pretty sure Abraham was his friend.

Oh and he was declared righteous because he believed God

James 2:23 (LEB) — 23 And the scripture was fulfilled that says, “And Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him for righteousness,” and he was called God’s friend.

Total inability is clearly an unbiblical doctrine

 

[TomL]

Nope.
Since you were ignoring the points being raised, I felt no obligation to read your same wall of text for a third time.

Did the people that Moses spoke to in Deuteronomy 30 actually OBEY and “lived happily ever after” or did the nation REJECT God to demand a king, ignore and kill the prophets, worship false gods and ultimately face JUDGEMENT at the hands of Babylon? Until you admit what really happened, there is no point in moving past your FIRST example.

God said that GOD chose a remanent for Himself, but scripture never claims that a remanent chose God of their own free will.

You had no points

Do you have any evidence no one obeyed?

Did God's statement they may do it not contradict your doctrine which states they cannot?

Did you ever hear of Joshua

Deuteronomy 31:7–14 (LEB) — 7 Then Moses summoned Joshua, and he said to him in the presence of all Israel, “Be strong and be courageous, for you will go with this people into the land that Yahweh swore to their ancestors to give to them, and you will give it to them as an inheritance. 8 Yahweh is the one going before you; he will be with you, and he will not leave you alone, and he will not forsake you; you shall not be afraid, and you shall not be discouraged.” 9 So Moses wrote this law, and he gave it to the priests, the descendants of Levi, the ones carrying the ark of the covenant of Yahweh, and to all the elders of Israel. 10 Then Moses commanded them, saying, “At the end of seven years, in the time of the year for canceling debts during the Feast of Booths, 11 when all Israel comes to appear before Yahweh their God at the place that he will choose, you shall read this law before all Israel in their hearing. 12 Assemble the people, the men and the women and the little children and your aliens that are in your towns, so that they may hear and so that they may learn and they may revere Yahweh your God, and they shall diligently observe all the words of this law. 13 And then their children, who have not known, they too may hear, and they may learn to revere Yahweh their God all the days that you live on the land that you are crossing the Jordan to get there to take possession of it.” 14 Then Yahweh said to Moses, “Look, you are about to die; call Joshua and present yourselves in the tent of assembly, so that I may instruct him.” So Moses and Joshua went and presented themselves in the tent of assembly.

Moses’ successor, Joshua,

Deuteronomy 34:9–12 (LEB) — 9 Now Joshua the son of Nun was full of the spirit of wisdom because Moses had placed his hands on him, and the Israelites listened to him, and they did as Yahweh had commanded Moses. 10 And not again has a prophet arisen in Israel like Moses, whom Yahweh knew face to face, 11 as far as all the signs and the wonders Yahweh sent him to do in the land of Egypt, against Pharaoh and all of his servants and against all of his land, 12 and as far as all of the mighty deeds and as far as the great awesome wonders Moses did before the eyes of all Israel.

well it seems during his day

Joshua 24:31 (LEB) — 31 Israel served Yahweh all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders who lived long after Joshua, and who had known all the work that Yahweh did for Israel.
Joshua 11:15 (LEB) — 15 Just as Yahweh commanded Moses his servant, so Moses commanded Joshua, and Joshua did; he left nothing undone that Yahweh had commanded Moses.

And you are in error.

Will you believe scripture and give up your doctrine now?

 

[atpollard]

The scriptures tells us, Abraham believed God and it was counted to him for righteousness (Genesis 15:6; Romans 4:3, 9, 22; Galatians 3; 6; James 2:23).

Hello, that in itself refutes the Calvinist idea of total inability.

When did Abraham believe God? Note that it says “Abraham” and not “Abram”.
You refuse to even consider that there is a difference between JUSTIFICATION and SANCTIFICATION.

Abram was called by God to “follow”. At that moment (Genesis 12), Abram was not a good man. Abram was not a “righteous” man before God called him. Abram was not a “righteous” man in Genesis 12. As stated in the beginning of Genesis 12, God had a plan and God was going to MAKE Abram a “righteous” man. What Abram was at the start of Genesis 12 is a “natural man”. The transformation from natural “Abram” to righteous “Abraham” is parallel to justification in the New Covenant.

Calvinism and “total inability” are all about JUSTIFICATION. They focus on what GOD DOES to bring us from the sort of man that “hedges all his bets” (just like Abram did) to being “righteous” and placing all our faith in God (like Abraham ultimately did). That transforming work of God is the subject of TULIP. Our walking in the “good works which God prepared beforehand” (Eph 2:10) is sanctification and comes AFTER TULIP.

You need to stop pointing to SANCTIFICATION as proof that TULIP is false. Genesis 12 shows that even the “father of faith” (Abraham) was not born “righteous” … it was a gift of God, not of yourself, that anyone should boast (Eph 2:8-9).