I believe by Gods sovereign will, and his character of being a loving God, not the type of God Satan wants the world to believe he is, the dictator who attaches strings to everyone and tells them what to do like mindless robots, that according to his Devine will he wants all to come to repentance.
Your idea is based on the thinking that the term "all" in the Bible always means literally "all". I have shown earlier the flaw in this and how it not always makes sense.
This robot-thingy kinda argument is old and worn out since long ago. If you understood what total depravity meant, as stated in Eph.2:1-10, then you'd realize we're dealing with dead people here and calling someone who raise the dead a dictator who are dealing with "mindless robots" makes...no...sense. OK?
So he offers all salvation, but he is not going to force anyone to chose him, he wants us to desire his help. So he sends the spirit to draw all men to himself, and those who see and believe are given life.
Where in the Bible do you find the notion that "the gospel is an offer"?
Not because they earned it we can never earn it, but that is his will, all who see and believe he gives eternal life, faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word. The hope which God gives is what we trust, God’s work, not ours. This nonsense that faith in Christ is a work is not biblical and not sense all.our faith is in God his work and his promise, that’s not earning anything
How can the blind see, unless someone open their eyes? Faith is said to be a
fruit of the Spirit (Gal.5:22), something which the unregenerate cannot have since they cannot receive the Spirit (John 14:17) and
it is a commandment to repent and believe (Mark 1:15,11:22, 1John.3:23). But the unregenerate cannot keep God's commandments. Which is to say that giving a commandment does NOT imply universal ability to keep same. The rest is easy math.
romans 1 explain it, although they knew god, they rejected him, they know they are deserving of eternal death, they just deny it,
Natural man's "knowledge" of God's order in creation does not equal salvific knowledge. That natural man is very able to
resist God is abundantly clear and nothing I would contest by any stretch. It is the UNABILITY of natural man to
surrender to God that I stress here.
amen, grace through faith, we are dead because of sin, which means sin must be justified before we can be made alive,
Errm, typo? You had it, "sin must be justified"? Meaning the sinner must be justified, I take it? And, yes, God do justify the ungodly, however not their sin.
we can not be regenerated UNTIL we are justified, you have it backwards,
Where does it say we can not? And does it have to be a time-lapse between them two or even any distinction at all? Your problem here is not that you put faith into its right place of justification but that you are making faith (as worked up by the ability of unregenerate man)
a condition and cause of regeneration.
Yes, justification indeed comes to us
through faith, that does not imply (nor is it explicitly stated in the Bible) this faith is
the result of something we "choose" to trust. Like somebody unborn first ask their parents to be born, saying "I choose to be born!" and as a result of that he is born.
Israel resisted gods grace, they saw Gods grace by freeing them, then rebelled and died in the wilderness. people do it all the time, the fact we are living is by the grace of God, we do Not deserve the right to walk this earth,
Yes, Israel (God's covenant community) resisted God's grace, and Israel as a nation was called upon a few times to make a choice. Same thing applies in the NT. I affirm this and I am all along saying that God was addressing the covenant community - not the entire world of gentiles and unbelievers. You do make a difference between Israel and the Gentiles when it comes to certain promises to Israel, however here you seem to fail to make that important difference.
And I never denied that people (jew or gentile alike)
can resist God, what I deny is that unregenerate jew and gentile
can not surrender unto God, whilst yet in the flesh, meaning still unregenerate. Those who persist in preaching man’s free will and personal responsibility always goof out on this,
making no difference between the covenant community and the worldlings.
The whole thing about the doctrines of grace is to hammer home who is alone the sole Author and finisher of our faith and to give due and diligent glory to the One doing so, not at any part (however tiny) sharing that glory with man. Thus:
To God alone be the glory.
