Acts 7:51 Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Ghost: as your fathers did, so do ye.
Luke 7:30 But the Pharisees and lawyers rejected the counsel of God against themselves, being not baptized of him.
Biblical Eternal Security vs 'Calvinistic Eternal Security' -by Gregg Jackson
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Luke 7:30 But the Pharisees and lawyers rejected the counsel of God against themselves, being not baptized of him.
Yes, man can resist the Spirit, but not entirely. That's why the elect are saved, because God overcomes their resistance by HIS omnipotence, and by HIS grace God gifts the elect with salvation and faith. .
No, you're reading v.8 wrong. Salvation and faith are gifts. That's exactly what the text says.
The Pharisees entirely rejected the counsel of God.
The gift is not faith, the gift is salvation by faith. God wants everyone to have faith, He wants everyone to be saved.
Yes, most do entirely reject the counsel of God. By me saying "but not entirely", I was referring to the fact that the elect do not reject the counsel of God. Therefore, not entirely or not everyone.
The gift is salvation and faith. Otherwise, Paul's next statement "not of yourselves" would be a lie, because your claim that you came to faith on your own means you were responsible for God saving you.
Ask yourself: When was the first time I heard the word of God?
Now ask yourself: How long after first hearing the Word of God did I finally surrender myself to Christ's sovereign authority and become born again?
Paul saying “not of yourselves” means we aren’t saved by our works, but by our faith.
Everyone determines their own future. God saves people who make the decision to believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, something anyone can decide to do.
Since I don’t know you, I can’t answer either question.
Oops.. I just realized you want me to answer those questions about myself.
I still can’t answer. I was saved decades ago.
Paul saying "not of yourselves" is referring to the antecedent gifts of salvation and faith and inability of anyone to have them apart from God's grace. The texts support this.
The elect are predestinated to be, and indeed will be, saved.
Yes, the questions are for you to ask yourself. Since you can't answer, perhaps more generalized will help. So, how old were you when you surrendered to Christ as Savior and Lord; were regenerated?
The gift is salvation by faith, not the faith to believe.
..so say Calvinists.
The Christian church was predestinated, not individual Christians.
God wants everyone to be saved (1 Tim 2:4).
The church is the body of Christ. The body of Christ consists of all believers. All believers in Christ are predestinsted elect. The elect in Christ are the church.
I can’t say. My guess would be my early teens. Could be wrong, though. I know for certain that I was saved by my early 20s.
I’m 68 now.