Can We Really Exercise Free Will?
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why would i need to enlighten your doubt,
Your doubt you must sought out for yourself, having faith in fellow believers could only be good, if we can be friends,
I'm very comfortable in my skin AND with what God has revealed to me over these many years. I have no doubts whatsoever on major, important doctrinal issues that I have researched and studied for over 45 years.
Well then...if you think the only or primary correction for ignorance and blindness is good preaching, then why didn't you support your contention with a passage that actually complements what you wrote, e.g. Eph 4:11?
And thank you for your kind wishes.
Luke 6:40
40 The student is not above the teacher, but everyone who is fully trained will be like their teacher.
It suggests that all students can reach a level of full development, but shouldn't think of themselves as higher, the verse is more focused on a complete transformation through discipleship.
A disciple is not above there master,
Matthew 10:24-25.
So you say I could suprise you, which suggest you have reached that level already and I haven't,
Humility is more appropriate than determining your level is higher
And if God spanks me that because I'm merely a little child in his eyes. But He would never spank any professing believer who thinks they are mature, grown up, adult, wise, self-sufficient, self-reliant, self-sustaining. God is too much of a "gentleman" to do something that crass, right?
God spanked very mature David pretty damn hard if I recall.
Really well I thought it was funny because he sees this thread as world war 3.
A bit like your bombs you keeps dropping in me Mr monkey
Anyway here's a nice bombshell
yep the woman's side of the story, could be the reason why Jesus gave woman more authority
So, the Gospel doesn't do all the above!? How can Divine Revelation not do all these things since you FWers believe that Natural Revelation in Rom 1 does!?
You FWers really do have some serious memory problems. You guys believe that spiritual understanding by all is virtually a given! Spiritual death, spiritual blindness, spiritual deafness are merely trivial obstacles to Faith! The Gospel doesn't show us who "you and and I" are, and who "He really is"? The Gospel doesn't show mankind God's "character and nature"? "His Benevolence"? "His Kindness"? "His LOVE"? "His integrity"? "His PERSON"? What good is the Gospel if it doesn't do all the above? Why should anyone believe the Gospel if it doesn't do everything above?If the Gospel doesn't cut it, and God's lame, ineffectual grace, which you FWers boast of, dooms the vast majority of its hearers to eternal condemnation, then how in the world is Christ's literal death going to impact any non-elect unbeliever? The only people that Christ's atonement would have a huge, positive, beneficial impact upon would be those for whom He actually died since Christ's atoning work is in fact effectual! All that the Father gives to the Son, the Son will indeed give eternal life to. And guess what, Einstein: The Father did not give the entire world to Jesus!
Finally, Christ could not have died for all in the distributive sense because there is no universal redemptive covenant in the bible. Christ came to save his COVENANT people. His sheep. His Church. His CHILDREN that were given to him by the Father in eternity. There's not a FWer here who believes that they are but mere little children in God's eyes who are weak, vulnerable, dependent and helpless.
I think you are a fake. You are none of the things you claim to be.Really well I thought it was funny because he sees this thread as world war 3.
A bit like your bombs you keeps dropping in me Mr monkey
Anyway here's a nice bombshell
Luke 6:40
40 The student is not above the teacher, but everyone who is fully trained will be like their teacher.
It suggests that all students can reach a level of full development, but shouldn't think of themselves as higher, the verse is more focused on a complete transformation through discipleship.
A disciple is not above there master,
Matthew 10:24-25.
So you say I could suprise you, which suggest you have reached that level already and I haven't,
Humility is more appropriate than determining your level is higher
How could I be above my Master when I was taught by Him? I simply remain steadfast to the truth which I'm called to do. I hold God's Holy Word in as much reverence and awe as I do its Author. And the number one reason why I'm so confident in what I believe is because my soteriology presents ZERO theological difficulties.
Really well I thought it was funny because he sees this thread as world war 3.
A bit like your bombs you keeps dropping in me Mr monkey
Anyway here's a nice bombshell
The only thing that is funny is you playing Mr. Inn O. Cent as if you have never fired a shot.
saved people are innocent, there no longer condemned,
The only thing that is funny now is how you say I stand by and watch dogmatic statements and now you stand by @Genez that im a fake and now you approve them,
Yep well when God sends somebody an evil spirit to torment people. It means there free will means absolutely nothing just saying
Even though God's truth is to be proclaimed to all, it will only be effective in the hearts of His Elect, those who God chose long ago.
To all others, it will become a stumbling block - leaving them without excuse!
Nar your just another person who joined the site and then placed himself above above all with your superior grace. Which is an absolute joke,