Salvation is a Free Gift.

Did God force you to be saved against your will?

Yes it can. If Ms. Jones is a teacher and sends her kids to Mr Water's karaoke evening., Mr Waters may say , "All that Ms. Jones sends to me will come to me. That does not preclude other children also coming of their own volition, or sent, from other teacher's classes.

A new creation is full of life and will respond to God. But any response on our part doesn't add to salvation, but evidences it's reality. And why wouldn't it? Where life is present, it grows. It's no different with spiritual life.

I think people overcomplicate salvation. I was blind, but now I see. Not really that hard.

Hearing the Gospel creates faith according to Paul.
So as soon as you hear the Gospel you are awakened.
Are you calling Paul a liar that Faith comes by Hearing?

44 While Peter was still saying these things, the Holy Spirit fell on all who heard the word.

Notice, the Holy Spirit fell upon those WHILE they heard not before!

You accept the flowers because he is your husband. When a person becomes born again, they are the bride of Christ, (Ephesians 2:5) He is their husband.

The natural person (1 Cor 2:14) has no husband, and cannot receive the things of the Spirit.

If a person defends the natural person, who has not been born again, saying that they can be born again by performing good works, they are deceiving themselves, and the truth is not in them.

You mean as they hear the Gospel preached?

44 While Peter was still saying these things, the Holy Spirit fell on all who heard the word.

Notice, the Holy Spirit fell upon those WHILE they heard not before!

John 10:26-29 - The natural man's eye's and ear's cannot receive the preaching of spiritual things (1 Cor 2:14). Only God's sheep (those who have been born again) can see and hear spiritual things.

This verse proves you don't understand the verses you present at all.

44 While Peter was still saying these things, the Holy Spirit fell on all who heard the word.

Notice, the Holy Spirit fell upon those WHILE they heard not before!


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John 10 is a Parable and Jesus said the Jews were prophesied to not be able to understand them.

Paul said the Jews are Blinded and Deaf.

So way to take this verse completely out of context.

You are rejecting 1 Cor 2:14 as being part of God's inspired word. and are not realizing that only those that have been born spiritually can see spiritual things, not the natural man, who cannot receive spiritual things, thinking them to be foolishness.

1 Corinthians 2:14 has NOTHING to do with HEARING the Gospel preached.

But it does have EVERYTHING to do with why you keep using it WRONGFULLY!

The only free choice I see left after the cross where Jesus the Son took away all the nasty nines and dirty dozen first. Left everyone to choose to believe God his Father or not, in the salvation offered them in risen Son for them. Then the new begins in each one that does believe God from within themselves
Eph 1:13. 6,7 good to read the entire Chapter for the context and trust God to reveal it to you too

Cool, all that is left from that cross of being reconciled by Son, all sins right then and there are by God forever forgiven, left one choice left to do for each person, "To Believe or not to believe" in the risen Son for us to be born new by God for us in trust (Faith) (2 Cor 5:17-20) he took away all Sin at that cross for his Father to receive it and then, we each have a new relationship, where Jesus separated sin and death once forever in Father's sight for us the people, in that final sacrifice of shed blood that used to bring forgiveness once a year under the Levite Priesthood, set up by Moses, that sacrificed perfect animals, that Father was not satisfied in people having to do that year after year, never being or getting 100% purged from sin forever. Now in Son from Father's view we are new, or to be new if another believes God in this truth. It is done by Son as said (John 19:30)
Read Hebrews 10, that is deep as can be and got me to see this truth, thank you, hoping for everyone else too. to see this, ask God for to see it in truth for you too and be freed in this love and mercy from now on too

The truly righteous are not self-righteous, ever, think on that, I do and see daily I am not righteous. Yet God is and remains righteous, that I remember I am by God only made righteous from God alone, written in stone from God through risen Son thanks, y'all are also. if, since you believe God too. Oh, and if one reading here has not seen this yet, continue in belief to see it through, thank you, even if you go through diversities, adversities, troubles too.

Thank you Father and Son for what is done for us to walk new in and not of flesh works any longer
Or anyone else, not even religion to be quite frank

God does it, God did it, God saves, time to stand in belief no matter what troubles come our way as in Col 1: 1-23 tells me, then Col 2 about his being risen after they got him killed first
Made an open spectacle of those religious leaders then as is said in Col 2

The call is for all in the risen Son, Father here on earth now in Spirit and truth. reaching out as Jesus talked of in John 3 as the wind. Not the physical wind, the Spiritual wind, wow, thank you for getting me to see this truth work through me right now, a no good person that needs God's lead in all things

I cannot make a person see the truth of the scriptures, unless the Holy Spirit within them reveals it to them.

Until that happens in your life, you will not be able to rightly divide the word, and will continue to believe the scriptures teach that eternal salvation is accomplished by the natural man's good works.

Hopefully, you can deny yourself, and allow the Holy Spirit within you to reveal some truths to you when reading scripture, such as, John 10:26-29 in contrast to 1 Cor 2:14.

May the Lord bless you in diligently seeking the truth in your studies.

That's because you must present truth to begin with and you are presenting it to collate your personal doctrine which has no truth in it.

You are basically calling the example in Acts a liar when it is proof how it actually works and tells you that your verses need to match it. Not the other way around.

44 While Peter was still saying these things, the Holy Spirit fell on all who heard the word.

Notice, the Holy Spirit fell upon those WHILE they heard not before!

You are still not understanding that the natural man, as explained, in 1 Cor 2:14 cannot hear or see or understand the preaching of the word, as do God's sheep in John 10:26-29.

You are not understanding the Gospel being preached and heard.

Are you even saved and full of the Holy Spirit?

That is exactly what it precludes because they (and they alone) - those whom the Father sends to Christ - will He raise them up on the last day and no others.

[Jhn 6:44 KJV] 44 No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him: and I will raise him up at the last day.

really? Cannot anyone do that from the pew from within them their heart or even at home or anywhere? For I see the six gun holsters on the preachers. What???????????????????????????? no way?
Really yes way
the true worshipers worship God in God's Spirit and Truth, thank you Father.

Matthew 23:15
Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye compass sea and land to make one proselyte, and when he is made, ye make him twofold more the child of hell than yourselves.

Do we the people really think, that others do not use the Gospel for their own gain still even outside of the Church also? No flesh person can please God but Son's that did that on that cross once for everyone to believe he is risen for new life from Father to get given them
First reconciled ( 2 Cor 5:17-20), then belief to God in risen Son for them. Then continued belief (Col 1:21-23), no matter (Watch out for the leaven of the Pharisees) God is the one and only one to be safe in at least for me, thanks