Congrats on finally, A. taking a stab at the accusation of partiality and B. acknowledging that partiality is evil.
However, you do this by 1. insulting my intelligence and 2. demanding ignorance.
1. 'I must read the dictionary definition of impartiality'.
I find this accusation ironic as I feel you truly have no clue of the dictionary definitions.
Impartiality = non favouritism = unbiased!
Partiality = favouritism = biased!
Conditional election = A right heart and mind Jer 17:9-10 from either our repentance Luke 5:32, servitude James 1:27 or martyrdom Rev 6:10 is required James 4:8, Rev 3:20 before we are gifted salvation Eph 2:8-10. UNBIASED!
Unconditional election = There is no condition to election. We are either elected by God or we are not. BIASED!
Unlimited atonement = Sacrifice was made for all mankind. Conditional only upon a right heart and mind Jer 17:9-10 from either our repentance Luke 5:32, servitude James 1:27 or martyrdom Rev 6:10 is required James 4:8, Rev 3:20 before we are gifted salvation Eph 2:8-10. UNBIASED!
Limited atonement = Sacrifice was made for only a few. No matter what the rest do, they never have a chance at reconciliation with God. BIASED!
2. You demand I ignore God's partiality as 'He is God'.
What a braindead line! There is literally zero impartiality if its not based on conditions from us.
It is because God is the Creator of all that any 'unconditional election' or 'limited atonement' from Him is pure partiality and makes Him monstrously evil.
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If God was not the Creator of all, perhaps there is a space where the U and L in TULIP may not incriminate Him. But He is the Creator of all.
As such you cannot fail harder at representing Him to the lost. Which is your one job 2 Cor 5:20.
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It is understandable that some define the A-Z of God's character off of a single word (omniscience) and a few cherry picked scriptures (Rom 9:21).
Easy for our poor little minds go into wonderland thinking of how great God must be in that He is truly all knowing.
But, what you are not grasping is every scripture outside of Rom 9:21 and every other word used to define God aside from the dictionary definition of the word omniscient.
As Jesus said to the devil when he cherry picked scripture, there is further scripture to consider. Scripture that tells us that God is good Psalm 136:1, righteous in all His ways Psalm 145:17, light with no darkness 1 John 1:5, it should be unthinkable that He do what is evil or be unjust Job 34:12.
Scripture clearly paints the picture that God is as good as He is great. And would therefore choose to be truly impartial and never support the U and L in TULIP.
I often wonder why the minds of Calvinists cannot explore that space. Why does it wonder only in the ''omniscient'' space? It is not like any of us can grasp how God came to be...'who He is', is truly beyond us...we need to stick 100% to scripture and all of scripture!
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It is a default belief to believe that God is both good and evil as there is good and evil in the world. But a Christian knows this is nonsense. God is only good. God is truly impartial.
Note how in Acts 10:34 Peter states ''I grasped a truth I never knew before''.
Acts 10:34 Then Peter began to speak: “I now realize how true it is that God does not show favoritism''.
Random House & Collins English Dictionaries
PARTIAL, biased or prejudiced in favor of a person, group, side, etc., over another, as in a controversy
BIAS, a tendency toward judging something without full knowledge of it;
prejudice:
He has a bias against anyone who is black.
PREJUDICE, intolerance of or dislike for people of a specific race, religion, etc
My statement: ''To be based on God’s grace, independently of any conditions in the person, is to be truly impartial, thus “Unconditional Election”.''
Your Reply: “What a braindead line! There is literally zero impartiality if its not based on conditions from us.” *
You wrote that and call me ‘brain dead’?
KingJ, you do a lot of humanistic blather, but the final usage of the word “partial” is dictated by the Bible.
My brothers and sisters, do not claim the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ of glory while
showing partiality. For if
a person with gold rings and in fine clothes comes into your assembly, and if
a poor person in dirty clothes also comes in, and if you take notice of the one wearing the fine clothes and say, “Have a seat here in a good place, please,” while to the one who is poor you say, “Stand there,” or, “Sit by my footstool,” have you not made distinctions among yourselves and become judges with evil thoughts? (Jas 2:1-4 NRSVue)
*Partiality refers to conditioned upon whether one is rich or poor
For the LORD your God is God of gods and Lord of lords, the great God, mighty and awesome, who is not partial and takes no bribe, who executes justice for the orphan and the widow, and who loves the strangers, providing them food and clothing. (Deu 10:17-18 NRSVue
) *Here partial conditioned upon whether a person is orphan or widow, or a stranger
You shall not follow a majority in wrongdoing; when you bear witness in a lawsuit, you shall not side with the majority so as to pervert justice, nor shall you be partial to the poor in a lawsuit. (Exo 23:2-3 NRSVue)
*Partiality is conditioned upon whether one is in the majority or poor
You must be impartial and listen to high and low alike: have no fear of your fellows, for judgement belongs to God. But should any case be too difficult for you, refer it to me and I shall hear it.’ (Deut 1:17, REB)
*Here partiality is conditioned upon status, high and low alike
God is not partial based on who, what or actions of a person. He is impartial, not prejudiced or biased.
God, who saved us and called us with a holy calling,
not according to our works but according to his own purpose and grace, and this grace was given to us in Christ Jesus before the ages began, (2Ti 1:9 NRSVue)
even before they had been born or had done anything good or bad (
so that God’s purpose of election might continue, not by works but by his call) she was told, “The elder shall serve the younger.” (Rom 9:11-12 NRSVue)
So
it depends not on human will or exertion but on
God who shows mercy. (Rom 9:16 NRSVue)
For
he will render to every man according to his works:… but glory and honor and peace for every one who does good, the
Jew first and also the
Greek.
For God shows no partiality. (Rom 2:10-11, RSV) (Rom 2:6, RSV)
To base God's election on God foreseeing the person's faith, makes God partial! This has God choosing a person who thinks he was just better, or had that divine spark, that ability to believe. This promotes PRIDE in man.
By God’s act you are in Christ Jesus; God has made him our wisdom, and in him we have our righteousness, our holiness, our liberation. Therefore, in the words of scripture, ‘
If anyone must boast, let him boast of the Lord.’ (1Cor 1:30-31, REB)
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