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So you don’t believe David’s words are inspired?

No, Jesus did not teach soul sleep. The answers you are asking me for are in those very texts. Every human is either in Adam or in Christ. If you remain in Adam, you will perish If you are in Christ, you will never perish. Federal Headship.

Re. re Job 32:8…compare with Romans 1:19-22 Point being, ignorance is not the main issue. It’s not that God does not enlighten men, the problem is men hate the Light.

See also Psalm 58:3

Where do you want the cutoff point to be? Why not leave that to God and speak gospel to them even from the womb?

Humility and trust

Cconsider Romans 5:14 and 1 Corinthians 15:22

I believe babies who die in infancy go to heaven. But the fact remains, they die. And they do not die physically for any sin they personally committed.

In Adam all died. In Christ, all are made alive.

Why do you think infants die? Without personal sin?

See Romans 5 beginning in vs 12 to end of chapter.

In Adam.

I believe we were born with a fallen nature into a fallen world.

Yes, saying that our will is as free as Adam’s is basically the root of Pelagianism.

I’m not sure if I agree with first paragraph starting with “ no one…” but I agree with the rest of your post. It seems to me in my study of the Bible that the scriptures never say we are born from above without the Gospel and the Spirit. But I am willing to accept whatever can be demonstrated...

Yes. Every part of natural man is affected by the fall.

Does the cross draw everyone or is it either foolishness or a stumbling block to those who are perishing. People react to the cross the same way or worse as how people responded to Jesus in John 6. The reason why the cross is the power of God and not foolishness or a stumblinblock to those who...

You’re reading too much into what I said. In my earlier post, I gave scriptures to argue for moral inability. I think that you must believe in moral inability, because any other kind of inability that does not include this aspect would mean that it is possible for a person to truly repent and...

It doesn’t matter what his condition was an instant prior. What matters is what effect his encounter with Christ had on him the instant he heard “ I am Jesus…” He hated Jesus before that moment. And His hardened heart was changed the moment He heard those words.

Inability due to the sin in their heart, ie what they loved, desired, held dearest, etc. For example, atheism is not an intellectual disagreement, it is a moral suppressing of the truth. Likewise, The failure to come to Christ is not merely a physical inability or an intellectual inability (...