Chosen by God - A study in Election
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No man is denied grace and if they seek they shall find and they can chose to believe the Gospel that they hear.
How does a Calvinist even know they are saved... when they cannot believe.
I heard the Gospel and I chose to believe it for myself as truth and then I was regenerated.
God did not force me to believe, I responded to what I heard......... and guess what...... the Gospel was explained so well to me that I understood completely what I heard.
That is basic scriptural truth.
How does a Calvinist even know they are saved... when they cannot believe.
I heard the Gospel and I chose to believe it for myself as truth and then I was regenerated.
God did not force me to believe, I responded to what I heard......... and guess what...... the Gospel was explained so well to me that I understood completely what I heard.
That is basic scriptural truth.
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"Apart from spiritual rebirth, no man/woman would choose Christ" is a true statement. Your fault is in believing that Christ died for all mankind, when it plainly states that he only died for those that his Father gave him. He also states that he will raise up all of those he died for at the last day, without the loss of even one.
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Firstly nowhere in chapter 12 does a state that someone "chose" to believe. Your inclusion of that term is a figment of your imagination, meant to deceive.
Secondly, your free will theory is CRUSHED later on in the text, not supported. Continued reading a brings to the fore the ELECTION PRINCIPLE.
John 12:37......
But although He had done so many signs before them, they did not believe in Him, that the word of Isaiah the prophet might be fulfilled, which he spoke:
“Lord, who has believed our report?
And to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?”
Therefore they could not believe, because Isaiah said again:
“He has blinded their eyes and hardened their hearts,
Lest they should see with their eyes,
Lest they should understand with their hearts and turn,
So that I should heal them.”
The reason that these people could not believe, the reason that ANYONE cannot believe is as follows:
John 10:25....
Jesus answered them, “I told you, and you do not believe [Same as chapter 12!!]. The works that I do in My Father’s name, they bear witness of Me. But you do not believe [Same as chapter 12!!], because you are not of My sheep, as I said to you. My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me. And I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish; neither shall anyone snatch them out of My hand. My Father, who has given them to Me, is greater than all; and no one is able to snatch them out of My Father’s hand. I andMy Father are one.”
No THAT is a comprehensive statement of doctrine. And it utterly destroys the doctrine of the free-willers.
Secondly, your free will theory is CRUSHED later on in the text, not supported. Continued reading a brings to the fore the ELECTION PRINCIPLE.
John 12:37......
But although He had done so many signs before them, they did not believe in Him, that the word of Isaiah the prophet might be fulfilled, which he spoke:
“Lord, who has believed our report?
And to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?”
Therefore they could not believe, because Isaiah said again:
“He has blinded their eyes and hardened their hearts,
Lest they should see with their eyes,
Lest they should understand with their hearts and turn,
So that I should heal them.”
The reason that these people could not believe, the reason that ANYONE cannot believe is as follows:
John 10:25....
Jesus answered them, “I told you, and you do not believe [Same as chapter 12!!]. The works that I do in My Father’s name, they bear witness of Me. But you do not believe [Same as chapter 12!!], because you are not of My sheep, as I said to you. My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me. And I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish; neither shall anyone snatch them out of My hand. My Father, who has given them to Me, is greater than all; and no one is able to snatch them out of My Father’s hand. I andMy Father are one.”
No THAT is a comprehensive statement of doctrine. And it utterly destroys the doctrine of the free-willers.
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Let me call your attention, once again, to Gen 33:28, when God changed Jacob's name, to be no more called Jacob, but to be called "Israel". Now reread the whole chapter of Ezk 36, with the truth of Jacob, being "the house of Israel". Jacob is representative of God's elect, Romans 9:11. Keep in mind that most of the time when Israel is mentioned in the scriptures it is referring to Jacob.
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