Can We Really Exercise Free Will?
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We would not even be alive if it were not for Him.
Isaiah 40 verses 6B-8 ~ All flesh is like grass, and all its glory like the flowers of the field. The grass withers and the flowers fall when the breath of the LORD blows on them; indeed, the people are grass. The grass withers and the flowers fall, but the word of our God stands forever.
Was Jesus ever in bondage/slavery/captive to a sin nature, the devil and the world?
An emoticon is not a word. Grow up, you conflater you! And please, stop being such a hypocrite.
Hey, get in line LOL
I don't think they answer questions... they ask them, and demand answers, and then don't see them.
God DIRECTS the steps of ALL men (in the distributive sense) -- both saints and sinners. Man's ways are not in himself.
“Whoever belongs to God hears the words of God. The reason you do not hear is that you do not belong to God.” “The knowledge of the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven has been given to you, but not to them.” The god of this age has blinded the minds of unbelievers, so they cannot see the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God. If anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to Christ. John 8 v 47; Matthew 13 v 11; 2 Corinthians ch 4 v 4; Romans 8 v 9b
Proverbs 19 verse 21 Jeremiah 10 verse 23b ~ Many plans are in a man’s heart, but the purpose of the LORD will prevail. No one who walks directs his own steps.
Eh, no, you refuse to deal with the fact that you did nothing to deserve life in the first place, that all are sinners deserving of death.A void it is.
They think it’s appropriate for reprobates to be judged for their innate condition given by god, who are born rejected by god, without any hope of salvation.
But you think you were capable of doing what Scripture says you could not. So therefore you deserve more life.
So...no one in scripture ever prayed to God for the salvation of the lost?
Plus your creative interpretation doesn't fit the context of Rom 9 -- not even a tiny bit. Prayer is nowhere in view in that chapter.
when it comes to ladies you should take notice
This guy obviously is a big believer in returning evil for evil (perceived or real).
A German Shepherd has attributes inborn in his heart.
But the purpose of the farmer, who has that shepherd dog guarding the entrance to his farm, will have the farmer's purpose to prevail.
God chooses believers for his purpose according to what attribute we have been born again to do.
Same difference.
Is that how He chose His people in the OT? He said they were the least of all, weaker than all the nations around them.
Sure. Honest prayer leaves such a request in the Lord's hands.
I stated something different.
That means stop begging/demanding God to save someone you want saved.
Ever see someone agonizing and telling God to save a loved one?
The answer for that person was...
“I will have mercy on whom I have mercy,
and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.”
and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.”
It does not, therefore, depend on human desire or effort, but on God’s mercy.
Get the context. It would help break it down for what principle was being stated.
Weaker than all?
What a great way to see God's benefits in grace be manifested!
God gets the glory!
The people get the benefits.
But I thought you told everyone than man is saved by his own FW! Make up your mind. . . . .