Ok, the last one was a little harder, so let me throw you a bone with this one.

Romans 1:16

 For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek.

 

I would not even add this one but it has been used as a defence against reformed doctrine. I will post a harder one next time. Also please keep in mind that I am posting these so called proof texts for Armininism just as they have been given to me at times.

Once again, can we defend our position on 1st Timothy 2:3-4? This verse is probably one of the top 5 verses used to say that Reformed Doctrine is wrong. As you read, it does seem to say that we are mistaken in our doctrinal position. As I have said in the last thread, I hope this exerscise can be used to help us to grow in our knowledge of the Scriptures. When I say that I want us to be able to defend our position, it is not just for the sake of defending ourselves, I believe we must be able to defend our position because I believe our position is the Biblical position.

1 Timothy 2:3-4
This is good, and it is pleasing in the sight of God our Savior, who desires all people to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth.

I thought this would be a good place to offer up some texts that are used to "disprove" Calvanism. If we say that we believe Scripture Alone as the reformers did, then can we prove are beliefs from scripture? I will offer some "proof texts" that are used by people in their attempt to disprove what we believe, we should never be afraid of this kind of challenge, as a matter of fact, the very reason I would like to use the blog for this is that it will help us all to learn how to better defend our position. I will make several posts over the next few days and weeks and hopefully we can all learn together.

John 1:12

¹²But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God,

 

We teach that a person is born again (regenerated), before they can have faith in Christ. This is just the opposite of what others teach when they say that you except Christ and then you are born again. This verse seems to teach that we are wrong. This passage seems to teach that belief comes first, then we receive the right to become children of God. He gave the right to become children of God to those who believe. He did not make those who are already children of God believe.

So my theologian friends, lets see what you can do with this verse. For those that are going to be in my Doctrines of Grace Bible study thats coming up, you will be graded on your responses to this verse :)