just wanted to add this quote from one of Ray's articles: Free Will is an oxymoron. the article is actually about free will, but this quote really hits the nail on the head of explaining that the 'logic' used by this emailer comes from his REPUGNANCE of Gods truth:
I have something from ‘The Berean Call.’ You know what Berean means, people like to use that word Berean, there are many ministries that have Berean in their name, because…
“we searched the Scriptures daily to find out whether these things to be so or not.” (Acts17:11).
The only problem is, they come up with every unscriptural heresy you could imagine.
But from ‘The Bereans call,’ we have this;
“Thus God would be the author of evil (this is in suggestion, that if we didn’t have free will, then this would be the case) and we have the contradiction of God telling them (in the garden, Adam and Eve) not to eat of the tree, causing them to do so, then punishing them for disobeying Him, a thought repugnant to human conscience and logic.”
Well there it is. How do we ever know we have a free will? Because if we didn’t, then what God does is repugnant.
What did they just admit? They just admitted, without knowing it, that they think that God, His plan, His Word, His truths are repugnant.
Rom 8:7 “because the carnal mind (that’s the natural mind, but do not think that it says the evil mind or the despotic mind or the perverted mind, but carnal and carnal means natural fleshly mind of man) is enmity ( which mean deep seated hatred- hates God) against God, for it is not subject to the (spiritual) Law of God, neither indeed can it be(made subject):”
The only way (if you have a carnal mind) that you could become obedient to the spiritual law of God is, it’s got to go. It’s got to go, because naturally of itself it hates God, it hates His law and it’s not subject to it, and can’t be, it’s not even possible.
Does anybody in Christendom really believe that scripture? Of course not. They will tell you they do, but if you break it down, they don’t believe in it at all. Not at all, do they believe that. And we will get into this, as we go through it.