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The Nature of God's Foreknowledge: Prescience or Prerogative? Since I'm on a roll proving just how pathetically impotent FWers are in that they have zero ability to answer tough questions, I'm going to demolish one of the most mighty of their "strong towers" to FWT: their ridiculously absurd...

Studier obviously thinks the sons of men possess the power that God doesn't; for unlike their Creator they have the power to change their nature in the same way the Ethiopian and the leopard can.

Translate: "the carnal mind/person is" born in a perfectly healthy state. He's not born blind, deaf, helpless, enslaved, imprisoned or dead or in need of any divine rescuing.

In the insane, absurd, chaotic, confusing world of FWT, man is born again either by Special [divine] Revelation and the Holy Spirit or by Natural Revelation. Funny, though, how Paul is silent on how many souls were saved because they were to able to decode the secret message of the celestial...

There you go digging more stupid, equivocating rabbit trails. I don't give a good flip about who all the prior Egyptian pharaohs were. There is no biblical text that says that God way back in Hebrew history hardened the hearts of all the Pharaoh's that succeeded the Pharaoh who was kind to...

How you answer those questions I highlighted all depends on how you interpret Prov 16:1, 9, 19:21; 20:24; 21:1; Jer 10:23; Dan 5:23, etc.

I'm dancing around the truth, but you cannot answer my question? Is an omniscient God like a mere mortal who must acquire knowledge in order to learn things?

Your post didn't mention anything about faith! And besides, you did basically say that man is okay with God if he tries to his best to keep his Law.

Does all God's knowledge intrinsically and spontaneously reside in Him or does he have to acquire knowledge and learn in temporal reality as his moral, finite, fallible creatures do?

Ah...the truth comes out! Thank you for unwittingly having an honest moment. You believe in a works-based salvation -- as long as people do their best -- as if man's best would ever be good enough to earn God's favor. Don't you know that man's [best] righteousness is as filthy rags in the...

I made the case once that this awareness or realization of salvation takes place at the point of the new birth -- and not during the "birthing process" per se that leads up to that birth.

What you chose was to write one of your long, windy tomes so that you could equivocate, deflect or detract from the simple "yes" or "no" rhetorical question that you cannot give.

Oh for sure...God actively directs the hearts of the sons of men by either letting them fall more deeply into their depraved selves by withholding restraining grace from them, or positively by empowering his elect to do his will.

Yup it is. Now I will thoroughly debunk your lame eisegesis of Ex 4ff. Despite your argument to the contrary, Ex 1-3 that mostly deals with the Hebrews past history has nothing to do with the hardened heart of Pharaoh. The only way these three chapters could logically be connected to God's...

In other words, God has hardened your heart so that you CANNOT give the easy "yes" or "no" answer. The junk you posted initially about Jer 13:23 totally ignored this verse! Your windy tome completely circumvented the verse, and I had to call you out on that glaring omission. This is why I...

Since that's the case and God had to "eventually" impose his will upon Pharaoh to achieve his purpose, then there's no way you can logically posit from the scriptures that God didn't do that with Pharaoh sooner rather than later. After all, Ps 105:25 explicitly teaches that God turned the...

Most especially when that one verse runs counter to your heretical views! I mean...what don't you like about Prov 21:1? Furthermore, this isn't the only passage that teaches the sovereignty of God! What about these, as well: Prov 16:1, 9, 19:21; 20:24; Jer 10:23; Dan 5:23? You don't count...

Give me the post number. Or better yet, just a simple answer to a rhetorical question. What details are needed about the obvious answer to a rhetorical question? (Did you discuss such things as the average number of spots on a leopard? Or how many shades of black Ethiopians can have?)...

Yeah...now you're catching on! My bible tells me that A&E hid from God and that HE sought them out. What do any of your favorite versions teach? And for your info Rom 3 is best understood in the context of the two preceding chapters -- you know...like chapter 1 that teaches that all who...

Now, you're talking out of both sides of your mouth. If God allows everyone to be themselves, how come it He who is complete control of man's ways? Why did God cut Pharaoh off at the knees after he did such a dismal job of hardening his own heart? Why did God pour gasoline on an open fire...