Both Calvinists and Non-Calvinists Can (and Should) Agree on the Titus 3:10-11 Principle with Apostates

I stand by what Pastor Paul David Washer said about Calvinism vs. non-Calvinism. Yes, that shouldn’t even be an issue. As I was discussing the pitfalls of non-Calvinism (sometimes called semi-Arminianism), one of them is to just keep witnessing. What’s often ignored is the principle of shaking the dust from one’s feet (Matthew 10:14, Mark 6:11, Luke 9:5,1 10:11). Furthermore, the Apostle Paul later gave this same principle in Titus 3:10-11. The KJV uses the word heretic is translated from the Greek word aihretikos or spelled as haheereteekos. The definition of a heretic is someone who is a schismatic. It means someone who is factious, a follower of false doctrine. The modern translations use terms like divisive person or one who stirs up division.

Rome Sweet Home: A Look at False Converts Converting to Roman Catholicism

I remembered the time after I got saved that I was guilt-induced many times. I knew some people who came from an Evangelical background who later converted to Roman Catholicism. I was told about so and so and was once a Protestant, but found the truth, and became a Roman Catholic. At first, I was wondering if should I go back to Rome? But the more I studied the Bible – the more I realized I had to let go of past ambitions that didn’t match up with it. I was told to read the book Rome Sweet Home in which two Presbyterians became Roman Catholics later on. No one can deny that Steve Ray was formerly a Southern Baptist. Some members of Catholic.com are former Evangelicals. But does that mean that Roman Catholicism is the true Church? Far from it. If you had the Bible known to you by God’s grace then you can no longer accept a lie. But these Evangelicals converted to becoming Roman Catholics. John MacArthur’s book Hard to Believe even had some of his former seminary mates converting to Buddhism. If we’re to say that Protestants and Baptists converting to Catholicism means Catholicism is the truth–should we also say Buddhism is the truth because a Protestant or a Baptist converted to it?

Sin Unto Death, Sin Not Unto Death

1 John 5:14-17 can be considered a very difficult passage. Back when I was still newly saved, I always wondered what it meant to have a sin unto death and a sin not unto death. My assumptions were that if a person dies unsaved then that’s a sin unto death. If a person is saved but sins but it’s a sin not unto death. The passage can be easily interpreted also as degrees of sins. In criminal and civil law, not every offense warrants the death penalty. For example, stealing may warrant imprisonment but not the death penalty. However, massive plunder may warrant the death penalty. For some, they have used the passage to say that you could lose your salvation every time you sin certain sins. This is also used to sometimes refer to sins that are either mortal or venial.