Because you cannot atone for your sin. You need Gods grace and God has given you enough light to make the choice. Likely you sinned before you knew of Jesus. Likely you have sinned since you know the Lord. You still cannot choose not to sin only to endeavor to sin less.
Only according to Calvinists. For non-Calvinists it is a distortion of the Gospel.
Which means you believe that it is OK to tamper with God's Word and reinterpret it to reflect your theology. Now the cat's out of the bag.
Yes, you can include John 3:16. For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son so THE ELECT who believe in Him shall not perish but have ever lasting life"
What about the rest of the church? You keep trying to make it a Calvin vs Armenian issue. No wonder you can not find what others are saying, you have a predetermined what everyone believes before they even tell you, Thats a huge mistake man.
Yes, you can include John 3:16. For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son so THE ELECT who believe in Him shall not perish but have ever lasting life"
so whosoever means elect. In what greek dictionary can we find this? shoot, in what english disctionary can we find it in?
So what about THE ELECT who don't believe in Him? And what about those that are not THE ELECT who DO believe in Him?Yes, you can include John 3:16. For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son so THE ELECT who believe in Him shall not perish but have ever lasting life"
Then it would say "the elect" or "whomever God has chosen" or something like that, Not whosoever, meaning anyone who does no matter who they are.
I disagree, induviduals are predestined, as well as the church is predestined. It is all based on foreknowledge, that is the key.
You do not change the meaning of words to suit your doctrinal position. That has been the error of th eroman church and many churches for a few thousand years now.
ie, It means whoever believes, that is in the world (God loved the world, that whoever in the world) , Nothing more, nothing less. Elect is not in context and can not be used to change the meaning of the word.
That may be true, But we can;t assume that is what the passage says, because if that is what Jesus wanted us to think, he would have told us that. Remember, Jesus is trying to explain being born again to nicodemus, So he was bringing his word to nicodemus level.
no one has the ability to not sin, so this point is pretty mute (even believers technically do not have this ability) and even if you could, you still have all your past sin and adams sin to take care of. Which you can not do yourself. so you would still need christ.
