Man's heart is ignorant of the things of God. How can you be against something you have no knowledge exists. God must make known His truth before man can accept or reject it.
Can We Really Exercise Free Will?
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Man's heart is ignorant of the things of God. How can you be against something you have no knowledge exists. God must make known His truth before man can accept or reject it.
Are you saying regeneration is salvation? If so, you differ from what the others say. They say you have to be regenerated before you can be saved.
He's obligated to keep his unconditional, unilateral New Covenant promises to Abraham's descendants and, of course, the promises the Lord made to Abraham himself. To the rest of the human race...not so much; for He never made a universal redemptive covenant with the entire human race.
Yep that's his belief alright. Consciously following the command to eat the Passover Lamb has nothing whatsoever to do with it.
I do believe grace is powerful and gets done exactly what God wants it to get done. But I waste my breath saying it because you think I'm duplicitous and a liar like my father the devil.
You better hope you are right because you will answer for every word.
This is the last breath I give you.
Goodby Rufus.
May the Lord have mercy on you.
You would think the way they describe a dead man means he can't think, can't feel, can't reason, can't discern right or wrong just some form of zombie.
Spiritually, yes! And as you know from the thousands of zombie flicks you have watched over your lifetime, that once someone becomes a zombie, that zombie CANNOT help himself. He can't UNDO what was he has become! In fact, it takes a real person to put the poor zombie out of his misery -- just like it takes a genuine, actual Savior to undo the devastating, destructive and addictive effects that Adam's sin has had on all humanity.
As far as right and wrong are concerned, all mankind has the works of the Law written upon their hearts. Plus man has a conscience, albeit a broken one.
That too, ignorant and blind Eph 4 18
18 Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart:
The word blindness is the grk word pōrōsis :
- the covering with a callus
- obtrusiveness of mental discernment, dulled perception
- the mind of one has been blunted
- of stubbornness, obduracy
- to cover with a thick skin, to harden by covering with a callus
- metaph.
- to make the heart dull
- to grow hard, callous, become dull, lose the power of understanding
It saves from dead in sin Eph 2:5
5 Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved)
Do you believe that about Gods grace ?
I do believe grace is powerful and gets done exactly what God wants it to get done. But I waste my breath saying it because you think I'm duplicitous and a liar like my father the devil.
You better hope you are right because you will answer for every word.
This is the last breath I give you.
Goodby Rufus.
May the Lord have mercy on you.
You should be praying for God's mercy upon you! You're far too proud to admit that you are but a little lost, helpless, weak, frail, vulnerable child before God; yet, it's only humble little children who will enter the kingdom of God per Jesus.
Plus you also don't believe that you're a helpless lost sheep in need of 24/7 shepherding for your spiritual survival. But Christ laid down his life only for his sheep. So, your prideful denial of this truth would also mean that Christ didn't die for you!
From where I sit, you are the one in imminent spiritual danger!
Which is as I said, they must receive knowledge first in order for their understanding to be darkened. If it (the knowledge of truth) is rejected, their hearts are hardened.
Well in that case, then, God obviously WANTS far more people to perish under his grace than he wants to save. God has two purposes for his grace -- "yes" and "no".
What good is knowledge to one incapable of understanding? Did you ever give to your young children the knowledge of Einstein's Theory of Relativity? If they did, did they understand it?
You may say that, but obviously you dont understand it. Dont you believe some for whom Christ died will yet die in their sins ?
Your Zzzzs (symbolizing sleep) are a metaphor for DEATH, which sounds about right for you since that's the third metaphor you willfully mangle. You're quite the little strikeout artist, aren't you?
Which is why the Lord comes to us with grace and truth.
John 1:17
For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.
