I believe God does it all by coming to you and making Himself known and if this happens to take place while hearing the Gospel preached God will make you understand that without Him you are lost and there's nothing you are able to do on your own to solve this issue but to accept His Gift of Salvation. And it's at this exact moment when you are able to accept or to reject what God is offering. And if you submit by yielding yourself to God (accepting His Gift) He will Regenerate you and make Himself a place inside you [Temple].
yep the idealists who call us determinists are well determined to putting Putting God into a box, with remarks like it's a just simple matter of yes and no with GodSome here want to pretend the natural man is no biggie in Scripture
as if the whole Bible was not about God's need to transform him.
He already has everything he needs, they say.
But then out of the other side of their mouth?
I never said his heart was good enough.
Another clear-cut case of:
People say a lot of stuff that is not Biblical. Some of it they act like it came straight fromyep the idealists who call us determinists are well determined to putting Putting
God into a box, with remarks like it's a just simple matter of yes and no with God
says a lot for God's intelligence I must say.
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Honestly that was a true brain wave I have to say
One of the revelations I experienced at university is that there is a distinction between the terms "continually" and "continuously," and I think this is key in understanding the good and evil in man. The search engine retrieves a plethora of verses utilizing one derivative of 'continue' in one form or another but very rarely had I found the term "continuously" employed. In those cases where it was, it had to do with the duties in temple worship, such as the directive to keep the fire continuously burning.
I guess people can make that mistake, but you shouldn't be determining this lol.
and, if we back up to v.22, "a) And this righteousness comes by faith in Jesus Christ to all who believe...." and "b) There is no distinction." especially stands out whenever there is any distinction of its origin is asserted apart from 'by faith in Jesus Christ to all who believe (in Jesus Christ as 'faith in' is virtually synonymous with 'believing').One of the revelations I experienced at university is that there is a distinction between the terms "continually" and "continuously," and I think this is key in understanding the good and evil in man. The search engine retrieves a plethora of verses utilizing one derivative of 'continue' in one form or another but very rarely had I found the term "continuously" employed. In those cases where it was, it had to do with the duties in temple worship, such as the directive to keep the fire continuously burning.
Continually is inserted in italics in Ecc 7:20 in some versions where the Berean Standard Bible has, "Surely there is no righteous man on earth who does good and never sins." And Roms 3:23 offers a second witness with, "for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God," adding, with v.24, "and (referring back to the subject 'all' that have sinned) are justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus."
I can't help but notice the logical leap one must make to conclude that naturally man must be 'continuously' as opposed to 'continually' but it is impossible for the righteous man to even be 'continually' good.
That's not reformed soteriology. What other parts of reformed doctrine do you agree with?
the "anything goes" is on the part of the one who "postulated" ... "Why didn't Adam step into the gap between Eve and God, as Moses did between Israel and God, and offer to pay her sin debt by pleading with God to take his life on her behalf?" ... with absolutely no Scriptural support showing that what he "postulated" was something God had revealed to Adam ...
They didn't want to "go up the mountain to speak with God directly" ...
Honestly I'm not sure they didn't want to are you completely sure ?
One of the revelations I experienced at university is that there is a distinction between the terms "continually" and "continuously," and I think this is key in understanding the good and evil in man. The search engine retrieves a plethora of verses utilizing one derivative of 'continue' in one form or another but very rarely had I found the term "continuously" employed. In those cases where it was, it had to do with the duties in temple worship, such as the directive to keep the fire continuously burning.
Continually is inserted in italics in Ecc 7:20 in some versions where the Berean Standard Bible has, "Surely there is no righteous man on earth who does good and never sins." And Roms 3:23 offers a second witness with, "for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God," adding, with v.24, "and (referring back to the subject 'all' that have sinned) are justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus."
I can't help but notice the logical leap one must make to conclude that naturally man must be 'continuously' as opposed to 'continually' but it is impossible for the righteous man to even be 'continually' good.
I'm glad for you really I am.
These "THINGS"
