Can We Really Exercise Free Will?

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HeIsHere said:
Does that tell us why he loves some .... what is the success criteria?

So we still have an arbitrary god who gives enabling/regeneration to some and not others. (once again not the real God).

At least admit that is true, always side stepping, deflecting or the else the lamest and laziest trying to make it personal.
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Since God owns all souls, then explain to me how or why He's morally obligated to save anyone? How is it that the Potter does not have the rights over his clay pots. So, yes, God will have mercy and will have compassion on whoever HE WISHES, and that does not make his choices arbitrary, since God does all things for a purpose.
 
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Genez said:
Which you never can explain properly.
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I did explain how God chooses. As I recall, you said it was correct. How can your above statement be true.

So many people simply have so many inaccurate assumptions about God built into their theology, they do not recognize truth when it is contrary to their preconceptions.
 
Cameron143 said:
It's not me you don't understand. You don't understand God and scripture.

Cameron143 said:
No one has said you aren't saved.
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1 Cor 2:14
But a natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned.

The way the calvies interpret this verse.......I am not saved.
 
Genez said:
I have had enough of your punk attitude.

IGNORE time for Rufus.(n)

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That's the boy. Do the childish thing and tuck your tail in between your legs and run. Maybe you'll even come across someone who has a big crying towel you can borrow. :rolleyes:
 
Kroogz said:
Cameron143 said:
It's not me you don't understand. You don't understand God and scripture.


1 Cor 2:14
But a natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned.

The way the calvies interpret this verse.......I am not saved.
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Are you a "natural person" or something different?
 
Kroogz said:
Cameron143 said:
It's not me you don't understand. You don't understand God and scripture.


1 Cor 2:14
But a natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned.

The way the calvies interpret this verse.......I am not saved.
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Salvation is through faith, not through understanding a particular scripture. No Calvinist I have met would base salvation as you have proposed. They would look for fruit.
Now I tell you this, but you will likely continue to believe as you already do. You will likely continue to believe what you already believe because it fits well with other false assumptions you have made.
 
Kroogz said:
Correct.
John 1:29
The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him and said, “Look, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!

1 John 2:2
and He Himself is the propitiation for our sins; and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world.

2 Corinthians 5:19
that God was reconciling the world to Himself in Christ, not counting men’s trespasses against them. And He has committed to us the message of reconciliation.

1 Timothy 2:5-6
For there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus, / who gave Himself as a ransom for all—the testimony that was given at just the right time.


Acts 16: 30-31
and after he brought them out, he said, “Sirs, what must I do to be saved?”

They said, “Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved, you and your household.”


Equal privilege and equal opportunity for ALL.
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God doesn't even treat people equally in temporal reality, let alone in the realm of spiritual reality! WAKE UP, O Sleeper, and observe the world around you. I thoroughly debunked the EOE concept for God in 6738 (Special Revelation) and 6739 (Natural Revelation).
 
Kroogz said:
Doesn't it bother you that after 100's of posts, many [professing] BELIEVERS don't understand your beliefs?

I Can't imagine how confused the unbelievers are after [we FWers] tell them what you believe.
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FTFY!
 
Rufus said:
And how would any of us know if any particular person is chosen or not?
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Yes, this is why reformed theology has no security. @Rufus cannot know with certainty if he is one of the lottery winners. Cross your fingers!

@Rufus may be one of the tares that just thinks he won the lottery.

Calvie theology is a dumpster fire.
 
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