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Do We View God’s Word Through Tinted Glasses?

View Through Colored Lenses Apostles & The Kingdom Matt. 20:20-ff Sadducees & The Resurrection Matt. 22:23-33 Pharisees & The Law Matt. 23: 23-24 Even Paul & The Christians Acts 7-9

Two Views of Salvation Man Is A Free Moral Agent. Man Is Sinful By Nature and God Decides Everything. Dating back Augustine vs. Pelagius (350-430 AD)

CALVINISM (T U L I P) God’s Sovereignty TOTAL DEPRAVITY UNCONDITIONAL ELECTION LIMITED ATONEMENT IRRESITABLE GRACE PERSERVANCE OF THE SAINTS 100% God 0% Man

CALVINISM God’s Sovereignty TOTAL DEPRAVITY UNCONDITIONAL ELECTION LIMITED ATONEMENT IRRESITABLE GRACE PERSERVANCE OF THE SAINTS 100% God 0% Man

CALVINISM God’s Sovereignty 100% God 0% Man TOTAL DEPRAVITY UNCONDITIONAL ELECTION LIMITED ATONEMENT IRRESITABLE GRACE PERSERVANCE OF THE SAINTS Ezekiel 3:16-27; 18:4, 19-24; Mark 16:15-16; 1 Tim. 2:1-7; Romans 10: 1-17; 2 Pet. 3:8-9; John 12:44-50

Mark 16:15-16; Acts 2:37-ff; 1 Pet. 3:21 Baptism Can’t Be Salvation: Remember 100% God & 0% Man “Outward Sign of an Inward Grace” “Symbol To Show Others You Have Been Saved” Mark 16:15-16; Acts 2:37-ff; 1 Pet. 3:21

So How Do We View Scriptures Properly? Study (Be Diligent) 2 Tim. 2:15, 3:16 Study In Context Test My Conclusions Against the Whole of Scriptures (Not Previous Conclusions)

Closing Thoughts: Balance Mt 23:23-24 Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you pay tithes of mint and dill and cummin, and you have left undone the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith. You ought to have done these and not to leave the other undone.