The idea of total depravity in the Calvinistic view is that man in his natural state is in capable or unable to do anything to please or gain merit before God. In other words, man’s will would never choose God’s will for his/her life. I believe that God has given us a free will to choose what we want. We can either choose God or deny God; the decision is up to us. I also believe that God will bring things into our lives to bring us to a place of repentance, but like I just said the decision is up to us.

The idea of unconditional election in the C

The idea of the perseverance of the saints in the Calvinistic view is that if a person is saved he will ultimately persevere because of the election of God. I believe that if a person is truly saved he will have a desire in his heart to do the things of God, but in the same sense, that person can fall back into sin just as easily as it was for him to sin in the first place. As Towns’ book states, “believers in scripture apparently died in rebellion, sin, or disobedience; they did not persevere to death.” Towns also states that the Bible teaches that once saved always saved, and I like how he summed everything up, “the word preservation is closer to the biblical doctrine that perseverance.” To sum it up once we are saved, we can fall back into sin, but even if we do fall back we are no more saved, in the sense of going to heaven, then we were when we first believed.

The idea of irresistible grace in the Calvinistic view is that the grace of God is as immutable as the pow

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