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Not sure I'll be answering your question—I may have misunderstood it—but I definitely believe the Holy Spirit can and does prepare people to be overcome (so to speak) by the Gospel in the years before they actually surrender to it. Maybe that isn't what you mean by "regeneration", but He was...

I know how, Hope. There's a verse in one of John's epistles, I think it is, that says — no, wait, here it is in 2 Thess 2: Apparently some people were teaching that the day of the Lord had already happened, and Paul is saying here that "it will not come unless the apostasy come first, and the...

Nah, not all. We all do evil, but we're promised that some of us won't get what we deserve. Anyway, "deserve" isn't the subject here, but whether God loves everyone. I was always taught that He does, and I still believe it by reflex. But I gotta admit that the Bible has a lot to about God...

"And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world." That's I John 2. Christ certainly died for the sins of the whole world. So why would God kill His enemies, if their sins are not what condemn them? Here's my opinion: "This is the...

Shiloh, I see the scripture you're citing but where do you get the part about it being fulfilled "toward the time of the end"? I don't see anything about the timing in there.