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    Can We Really Exercise Free Will?

    There is no qualitative difference between faith that accepts God’s saving grace at conversion and faith that accepts God’s working grace while walking/living (EPH 2:8-10, 2CR 5:7, RM 1:17), but only a quantitative difference as each additional moment passes–and of course faith remains...
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    Can We Really Exercise Free Will?

    I just got here yesterday so I can hardly help it if you have grown tired of discussing the subject previous to that. It appears that you are planning on getting me censored if I do not desist in raising such questions even though I have never said anything offensive to you personally. This...
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    Faith without repentance is Dead !

    You need to read Romans 11 more carefully. If you do, you will see that the Apostle does not have in mind the status of NT believers. Romans 11:28-29 says, "…28 Regarding the gospel, they [the Jews that did not believe] are ENEMIES on your account; but regarding ELECTION, they are loved on...
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    Can We Really Exercise Free Will?

    I wonder if Balaam's donkey had that deep sonorous voice
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    Can We Really Exercise Free Will?

    In the Early (Ante-Nicene) Church, free-will was considered the ABILITY to make choices independent of external coercion by such mechanisms as fate or instinct. This was the way the Ante-Nicene teachers and apologists expressed it. For instance, Irenaeus of Lyons, (120-202 AD) who was the...
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    Can We Really Exercise Free Will?

    Of course, of course...