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    Rufus replied to the thread Can We Really Exercise Free Will?.
    I don't have any "plan of salvation" but God does in his New Covenant Promises. Why don't you point us to all the bilateral conditions...
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    Rufus replied to the thread Can We Really Exercise Free Will?.
    Sawdust, I have another question for you re your three children. When your children were small and frail and weak and vulnerable to the...
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    Rufus replied to the thread Can We Really Exercise Free Will?.
    Mz. Sawdust, I have a question for you over something you conceded yesterday. When discussing Jn 3:16-17, I pointed out the glaring...
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    Rufus replied to the thread Can We Really Exercise Free Will?.
    Is that bright star still around today leading people to the Messiah? Or was it a one-time, unique event?
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    Rufus replied to the thread Can We Really Exercise Free Will?.
    No! That is you. I have provided NUMEROUS scriptures that prove that neither God never intended for his covenant people to assimilate...
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    Rufus replied to the thread Can We Really Exercise Free Will?.
    For the same reason God required the Israelites to seize the Land and drive out their enemies -- yet everywhere in scripture God is...
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    Rufus replied to the thread Can We Really Exercise Free Will?.
    So many professing Christians say it because of their PRIDE -- Pride which is the root cause of all sin. Is it any wonder that they...
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    Rufus replied to the thread Can We Really Exercise Free Will?.
    Well then...if all grace is but the "restraining [of] the sin nature", then it must be efficacious, since when God restrains evil by his...
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    Rufus replied to the thread Can We Really Exercise Free Will?.
    Wow! The passage doesn't say that where the Spirit of the Lord is there is freedom for all those who choose it. Or where the Spirit...
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    Rufus replied to the thread Can We Really Exercise Free Will?.
    Neither is the birth of the Messiah declared in either of the above passages. So...try exegeting scripture next time..
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    Rufus replied to the thread Can We Really Exercise Free Will?.
    Whose will is ultimately efficacious in choosing salvation: God's or man's?
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    Rufus replied to the thread Can We Really Exercise Free Will?.
    The New Covenant promise of a changed heart is unconditional. Where in the NC terms does it state any conditions that must be fulfilled...
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    Rufus replied to the thread Can We Really Exercise Free Will?.
    But neither passage says that the heavens declare the gospel truth. You FWers love to conflate divine and natural revelation, don't you?
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    Rufus replied to the thread Can We Really Exercise Free Will?.
    No! More doublespeak. The will is potentially saved by ineffective grace from its bondage to sin. If the will were truly saved, then...