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You're assuming in the Prodigal Parable that no grace was working in the prodigal's life. You're assuming that the prodigal came to his spiritual senses all under his own power. You're assuming that the prodigal wasn't made willing by God's power. Conversely, Jesus taught that "apart from me...

For starters, get up to speed up on the unilateral, unconditional New Covenant promises in Jer 31, 32 and Ezek 36. For example, when God declares that he will give his covenant people a new heart, whose going to prevent him from performing his will?

Pure conjecture on your part. The Fall of mankind, while impacting the whole man in terms of how the sin nature was passed on by Adam to all his progeny, doesn't change the fact that the great emphasis in scripture is on the immaterial parts of man -- his essence and his heart. There's not one...

Here's a wild and crazy idea: Because all sin proceeds from within us and not from without us (e.g. the skin that hangs off our bones). The focus of scripture is clearly on the inner man (sin nature and the heart), not the outer, visible parts of man. There's nothing sinful about our skin...

You're the one grasping at straws when you say that Calvinism doesn't believe that Jesus is the Way. Do you have something to back up that straw man statement?

I thought God was in the soul saving business? No? The "part" of us responsible for our depravity is our fallen human nature and a totally depraved heart.

For your info, Calvinism also teaches that "Jesus is the Way"? So, was there some point you were trying to make in your above post? However, there are many versions of the gospel and any version that rejects the Five Doctrines of Grace is definitely at minimum a false gospel.

I am now going to press the point I made earlier today about the Parable of the Good Samaritan. According to the non-reformed here, if God empowered his elect to believe the gospel, that would make him a wicked, malevolent tyrant on one hand, and the recipients of that kind of saving grace...

All unbelievers refuse to believe the gospel because of their pride and vanity and sense of self-importance! Pride is the Number Sin of the entire Human Race! You say you know the Parable of the Four Soils then in the next breath talk about the "self professed believers" as though they were...

Those who ask were given grace to have that kind of heart disposition. For no one seeks after God....until he effectually draws them to his Son.

Why don't just answer Rogerg's questions and demonstrate how your heresy addresses the specific issues he raised in his last post? How do the very young who die at a very young age get to exercise their "free" will to elect Christ so that God in turn can reciprocate their election with one of...

Everything I mentioned is established in scripture. For example, the Immutability of God. Since God Almighty cannot change who or what he is in his essence, then what makes you think that sinners can change their nature? Can the Ethiopian change the color of his skin, or the leopard its...

Of course, they don't know it and cannot know it because they are self-deceived. The bible does teach that there is such an animal as spurious faith. You might want to ponder the Parable of the Four Soils in Matthew 13 to learn this truth. Also, it's not pride or vanity to believe God's...

So then you agree that the sons of men cannot will a change of their essence (nature), anymore than God can change his? And you agree that the physically dead cannot will to do anything? If so, how do you make a leap from that kind of inability to ascribe all manner of spiritual ability to the...

What a butchered interpretation given what Paul said earlier about Issac and Ishmael and Jacob and Esau. Context does matter.

Well, tell me, sir: Who existed first: Esau and Jacob or the nations they eventually became? The text in Romans 9 doesn't say that God loved Israel and hated Edom. :rolleyes:

Patently false. God gives us assurance from within us and in his Word. God keeps us and true believers know it.

Wow! Unsanctified minds can roam anywhere they want -- I suppose pretty much like man's "free" will can will anything man wants. And, no, no one can "sneak in" because those in Adam want nothing to do with God. How many antediluvians ended up seeking God with all of Noah's preaching? Let's...

Yes, it is an indivisible whole. But logically speaking, the New Covenant (a/k/a NT) fulfills all the other covenants, and this is why the OT scriptures must be understood through the lens of the New Covenant which is God's latest revelation to mankind.

But those two "nations" (Jacob & Esau) were individuals that God chose BEFORE they became nations. And God's rejection of Esau in eternity (before HE did anything good or bad) sealed the fate of the nation, as Edom was as much an ungodly nation as its father was. Also, Peter exhorted his...