Can We Really Exercise Free Will?

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For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions, and owill turn away from listening to the truth and pwander off into myths.
 
Eh? The immaculate conception is not about Jesus' birth. It concerns Mary being preserved from Adam's sin
from HER conception on, so that Jesus could be born sinless because according to the RCC He needed her help,
but then, if that makes any sense, so would Mary's mother have to have been likewise preserved from sin and
so on and so forth all the way back to Eve. And surely you see how preposterous such a proposal is on all sides.


The dogma of immaculate conception has no angel anywhere (it is not Biblical); you confuse it with the annunciation.

The annunciation where Mary was not asked but informed, much to the hateful denials of blasphemers.
I am talking about the Angel with Zachariah in the Holy of Holies telling him in his old age he would have a son who would prepare the way for the coming Messiah.
 
For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions, and owill turn away from listening to the truth and pwander off into myths.
Are you speaking from experience?
 
Wrong. What my post clearly explained, and as the verses I provided substantiate - that repentance, if true repentance, comes only from God, freely given to His elect - He does not give it to everyone, nor does it come by man's volition or choice and the Holy Spirit does not claim otherwise.
It's not about what you think. It's about that God finally includes the Gentiles so now they're able to Repent and be Saved.
 
It's not about what you think. It's about that God finally includes the Gentiles so now they're able to Repent and be Saved.
These guys should get hobbies. They wont answer simple yes or no questions and cherry pick scripture. Time to shake the dust off or as miss meme says, tuck my tail 🤣
 
I don't think people realise much that Gods sovereign will, also include we cant say who is going to saved before they are saved

But then there this false Armenian believe that somehow where chosen before them and that we where picked.

I don't even know whether or not they realise exactly what there saying
 
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From Ephesians 1 According to the good pleasure of His will, to the praise of His glorious grace, God has made known to us the mystery of His will, which He purposed in Christ before the foundation of the world. In Him we were also chosen as God’s own, having been predestined according to the plan of Him Who works out everything by the counsel of His will, in order that we, who were the first to hope in Christ, would be for the praise of His glory.
.:)
 
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From Ephesians 1 verses 4-6 ~ He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world to be holy and blameless in His presence. In love He predestined us for adoption as His sons through Jesus Christ, according to the good pleasure of His will, to the praise of His glorious grace, which He has freely given us in the Beloved One.
 
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From Ephesians 1 According to the good pleasure of His will, to the praise of His glorious grace, God has made known to us the mystery of His will, which He purposed in Christ before the foundation of the world. In Him we were also chosen as God’s own, having been predestined according to the plan of Him Who works out everything by the counsel of His will, in order that we, who were the first to hope in Christ, would be for the praise of His glory. .:)
Even that will not satisfy DeanM! He will now ask for twenty more verses which say the same thing . . . . . . .