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All inspired by the devil. So, what else would we expect?

And the really crazy thing is that Jesus was very clear in John 17. He actually speaks about the Father's elect being IN the world but like Him NOT OF it! But so many FWers don't have the eyes to see this truth or the ears to hear. But other than these very minor, inconsequential little...

Easy answer: Because you're assuming that Christ died for all w/o exception -- when in fact He died for all w/o distinction.

I'm just going to butt into your conversation with Cam very briefly to say two things since Cam is quite capable of expressing himself clearly. First, CONTEXT of any given passage determines how the Gr. term "kosmos" is used, and a very large percentage of conservative, evangelical language...

You can't resist arguing from silence can you? You just cannot stick with what is actually revealed, can you? Where in scripture is the proof that Adam repented of his sins and trusted God? And God spared Cain here in temporal reality, but I kinda doubt Cain made it to the pearly gates...

Your answer to the rhetorical question was essentially that Jeremiah was speaking only to a rare anomaly with his fellow Jews of his day. And that is a non-answer. Self-deception is a universal phenomenon in all sinners as I proved in my 2771. All you did was gloss over a text that doesn't...

Glad you finally recognize that Cornelius was a God-fearer. You are aware, right, that the Fear of the Lord is a unilateral, efficacious grace of God?

"Seeds theory"? So God inspired Moses to write a theory in Gen 3:15, heh? :rolleyes: And man does save himself, since God doesn't! God salvation is very different from the salvation the Good Samaritan rendered to the half-dead crime victim; for God doesn't actually save anyone! He simply...

FWers not only have a very difficult time in understanding and processing figures of speech (especially metaphors!) but they routinely ignore rhetorical questions because such questions gives a reader one of two choices for an answer and FWers don't like the correct answers. Jer 17:9 reads...

And what makes you think that the actual "response" itself is not God's will!? You truly have no small blind spot to the sovereignty of God. You "freely" chose to reject several passages that teach that man's ways are NOT in himself! Did Lydia in Acts finally and freely accept the gospel...

By insulting God and tearing Him down, they artificially build themselves up to become the very one they're insulting and blaspheming.

Is that what Eve did after she sinned? She used her God-given volition to save herself -- to "cooperate" with God -- to seize the "opportunity" (that He never offered!) for salvation? :rolleyes:

AMEN to that, brother! Preach it! Teach it! Live it! Ladies and Gents, this is a man who has a great handle on God's grace!

Not everyone! There ain't no sun shinin' where I live. Grey, bleak and gloomy.

So, you just glibly dismiss a passage by characterizing it as an "anomaly" (i.e. "not much to see here, folks") and cannot answer my question as to the purpose behind the text. Your will is clearly in bondage to the darkness of your heart. But fear not...I will shortly demolish your foolish...

But this doesn't change the fact that God's will is not contingent on man's. Plus I have given plenty of examples from scripture wherein God has often "forced" his will upon his moral creatures -- in spite of them being "volitional creatures". You also fail to understand the uselessness of...

It's all a part of FWers' psyche that drives them to be as God. But their hearts are so utterly self-deceived, they cannot see (understand) what they're doing. They are totally oblivious to their own self-deception. How can the blind examine and see clearly into their own hearts?

Answer my question: What purpose does Deut 29:4 serve if minds with no understanding and eyes that are blind and ears that are deaf can function just as well as if the mind did understand, and eyes do see and ears can hear? What you're trying to do is artificially mitigate or even obliterate...

Read Jesus' encounter with Nicodemus someday in John 3. One must be born again to see and enter the kingdom. You're operating under the assumption that all gifts must consciously be accepted by a freewill act of our own. Is that what happened when Jesus raised Lazarus from the dead: Lazarus...

But it is a gift -- a product of God's common grace to all mankind. So, does mankind have to give the Creator and Sustainer of the Universe their "freewill" permission to make his sun shine or rain to fall upon the earth? When will you FWers understand that God's will is never contingent upon...