today is the official start of...Spring Break! i am SO happy its finally here. I was starting to feel totally burned out on school. the break is welcome.
thankfully we only have 4 more weeks of school after this. (sadly, i've been telling everyone that we only had 3. my bad!) now THAT is something to be excited about! gosh i have so much going on this summer its crazy! State Competition (speaking of which i am no where NEAR done learning my piano piece, and i still haven't found a suitable monologue), Camp, hopefully staying with my sister in Nashville (and my bro too), TRUTH&PEACE, the Nationals, vacation out to NC to see my grandma, and, of course, working. yes, i have a job now. scary though, aye? at Quiznos. i was hired last week! but i haven't started yet...actually, im not even sure when i start. hopefully not this week. haha. no, im just kidding. like my dad said "Everything changes from now on. you cant just do what you want. you have to listen to your boss..." Oy im scared. no, seriously. i am. but hey, i need the money.
i had one of the most....interesting arguments last night. it was one of those Calvinism vs. Arminianism debates. dont you just love those? ha. one of my friends from school (a school run by a fundamental independent baptist church) called me and out of the blue asked me "so...you guys dont believe in 'once saved, always saved' do you?" The great thing was he used the arguments that Calvinists are known for using. i couldn't help but laugh. So to prove MY point i gave him Hebrews 6:4-6, (in KJV since that was what he was using.)
For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost,And have tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the world to come, If they shall fall away, to renew them again unto repentance; seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to an open shame.
so he told me that that passage meant that "it is impossible for man to forfeit his salvation" i don't know HOW he got that out of that passage, because to me that is black and white. you CAN forfeit your salvation. you CAN turn away. If we have freedom in Christ, to say that we don't have the choice to give up our salvation, is in fact total bondage. to say that is to say that we no longer have freedom or a free will. I told him that too. But in the end whats going to matter is "did you believe that Jesus died on the cross and rose again?" its not going to be "were you a Calvinist or an Arminian?" ah and he did give me John 10: 28-29 (And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand. My Father, which gave them me, is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father's hand.) to which i said "yes. that verse is true. no man can remove you from His hand. But you yourself, can" to which he acknowledged that i had made a good point. but that was the argument. I'm not changing my opinion, hes not changing his.
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