Then that is a serious problem.
Because James tells us that we need to be daily focused on Jesus, and the mirror of liberty.
Jas 1:21-25 WEB 21 Therefore, putting away all filthiness and overflowing of wickedness, receive with humility the implanted word, which is able to save your souls. 22 But be doers of the word, and not only hearers, deluding your own selves. 23 For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man looking at his natural face in a mirror; 24 for he sees himself, and goes away, and immediately forgets what kind of man he was. 25 But he who looks into the perfect law of freedom and continues, not being a hearer who forgets but a doer of the work, this man will be blessed in what he does.
We're all in this same boat.
We all have to look into the perfect law of liberty, and continue therein.
Exactly as Jesus said in John 8- if you continue in my teachings, you will know the truth and the truth will set you free.
So, I'd say that you're talking about a different mirror than I am.
Actually, this whole "anti-calvinist, provisionist, molinist, arminianist, calvinist" routine are a series of labels that act to separate us.
Paul describes the problem in 1 Corinthians 3. Jesus also had something to say about it too!
1Co 3:1-11 WEB 1 Brothers, I couldn’t speak to you as to spiritual, but as to fleshly, as to babies in Christ. 2 I fed you with milk, not with solid food, for you weren’t yet ready. Indeed, you aren’t ready even now, 3 for you are still fleshly. For insofar as there is jealousy, strife, and factions among you, aren’t you fleshly, and don’t you walk in the ways of men? 4 For when one says, “I follow Paul,” and another, “I follow Apollos,” aren’t you fleshly? 5 Who then is Apollos, and who is Paul, but servants through whom you believed, and each as the Lord gave to him? 6 I planted. Apollos watered. But God gave the increase. 7 So then neither he who plants is anything, nor he who waters, but God who gives the increase. 8 Now he who plants and he who waters are the same, but each will receive his own reward according to his own labor. 9 For we are God’s fellow workers. You are God’s farming, God’s building. 10 According to the grace of God which was given to me, as a wise master builder I laid a foundation, and another builds on it. But let each man be careful how he builds on it. 11 For no one can lay any other foundation than that which has been laid, which is Jesus Christ.
There are only two labels I've ever chosen for myself as a follower of Jesus.
1- follower of Jesus
2- dead to my sin, raised IN Christ.
All the others relating to my position in Christ, on this forum have been applied to me by people who have been acting quite maliciously.
It's been made quite clear that unless I walk lockstep with people who are labeling themselves as calvinist, I am an anti-calvinist.
Your posts show something entirely different.
Are your beliefs so weak that you need to consider the exchange of ideas on an internet forum warfare?
Have you ever read Ephesians 6:10-18?
Take a really close, long hard look at verse 12.
Then commit it to memory.
Eph 6:12 WEB For our wrestling is not against flesh and blood, but against the principalities, against the powers, against the world’s rulers of the darkness of this age, and against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places.
In light of this, I'd say that you are being played like a fiddle.
Whose are you?
If you claim the name of Jesus, you are no longer your own! You, like me, have been bought with a price!
1Co 6:19-20 WEB 19 Or don’t you know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God? You are not your own, 20 for you were bought with a price. Therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God’s.
I'll be among the first to acknowledge that this is not easy. I've been talking with atheists since 2000-2003. But we need to remember WHOSE we are.
2Ti 2:19-26 WEB 19 However, God’s firm foundation stands, having this seal: “The Lord knows those who are his,” and, “Let every one who names the name of the Lord depart from unrighteousness.” 20 Now in a large house there are not only vessels of gold and of silver, but also of wood and of clay. Some are for honor and some for dishonor. 21 If anyone therefore purges himself from these, he will be a vessel for honor, sanctified, and suitable for the master’s use, prepared for every good work. 22 Flee from youthful lusts; but pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart. 23 But refuse foolish and ignorant questionings, knowing that they generate strife. 24 The Lord’s servant must not quarrel, but be gentle toward all, able to teach, patient, 25 in gentleness correcting those who oppose him. Perhaps God may give them repentance leading to a full knowledge of the truth, 26 and they may recover themselves out of the devil’s snare, having been taken captive by him to do his will.
Who says that you have to respond in kind?
Why do you think that I wound up blocking 2 members?
It became pretty clear early on that my questions, my ideas, etc.... were fodder for warfare. I came to the point where I simply wasn't interested in either becoming a casualty or making others casualties.
Last I checked, we are following the King of the Cosmos.
Infighting is not how we're to engage one another.
Family squabbles are one thing. But even I grew weary of the fighting my family and I engaged in growing up and walked away.
Now we engage in conversation from 250 to 500 miles away from each other, over the general safety of the internet.
And don't think for a single heartbeat that I'm saying these things from the position of innocence or naivete.
I'm exceedingly skilled at the craft of sarcastic witticisms and jabs.
I'm saying this as one who has been both the perpetrator and the victim.
I've lost dear friends because both of us didn't know how to stop, and verbally assassinated each other with sarcasm. I'm saying this from 16+ years out from the incidents, and over a decade of learning to see the fallout, and come to terms with my own culpability in it.
Watch where you walk. Sometimes there's simply no recovery.