(November 11, 2020 at 8:19 pm)MilesAbbott81 Wrote: I don't know what Calvinist teaching is, but I believe he believed in eternal damnation, which is an absurd pagan doctrine. I believe in universal salvation.
It seems you've not been reading this thread at all, actually. Only believers can choose to do good? I specifically said no one can do good of their own accord. Sinners can also do good, by the grace of God. Perhaps you should read and attempt to understand before making judgments.
So you are not a Calvinist, but I see little difference to the moral argument.
Grace is an act of God. It is God's choice, not a person's. If God chooses to harden GrandNudger's heart, then he has no say over the matter.
You either say that good choices are discernible by all, and therefore people are moral agents. Or you say that God chooses to enlighten the minds of some as to what "good" is, because we can't know by ourselves, and therefore it is God's choice as to who gets enlightened and to what. In that case we are not true moral agents.
Presumably God has hardened my heart, and I am cut off from the "Truth". Not my choice.