Can We Really Exercise Free Will?
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Funny, but do you believe regeneration and eternal life are synonymous?I cannot believe you even attempting to assert this.
Yes make a case for it.
On your mark, Get set, Go...
Regeneration is to be made alive. Eternal life is to know God and Christ.
John 5 v 24-25 ~ Truly, truly, I tell you, whoever hears My word and believes Him who sent Me has eternal life and will not come under judgment. Indeed, he has crossed over from death to life. Truly, truly, I tell you, the hour is coming and has now come when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear will live.
Then they will tell us everyone hears when everyone does not hear. They like to make it up as they go
along to prop up their unBiblical self-exalting doctrine which contaminates the whole of their thinking.
Oh, wouldn't it be lovely if they just believed what the Bible said? Apparently that is expecting too much.
along to prop up their unBiblical self-exalting doctrine which contaminates the whole of their thinking.
Oh, wouldn't it be lovely if they just believed what the Bible said? Apparently that is expecting too much.
Here's a newsflash fer ya: "Volitional faith" doesn't save anyone! The concept isn't even in scripture!
Faith must be rooted in a person's HEART so that all four of man's faculties are actively engaged (Rom 10:9-10). Better take a deep dive into your spiritual life to take inventory of your mind, heart and soul.
John 17 verses 2-3 ~ You granted Him authority over all people, so that He may give eternal life to all those You have given Him. Now this is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, Whom You have sent.
Well according to AI your are even outside of Calvinism now.... woah really drifting here.
No, Calvinists do not separate eternal life from regeneration; rather, they believe regeneration, or the new birth, is the cause and precursor to faith and is the point at which eternal life truly begins for the elect. Regeneration is understood as a direct work of God, a quickening of the spiritually dead person to spiritual life, making it possible for them to believe in Christ
/Google Gemini/
God is outside the intuitive powers of the natural man. John 6:63...His words are Spirit and life.
Waiting for a verse that articulates free will. Oh, I will not be holding my breath.
In all this time not one has been provided, but none have been because none exist!
The Bible is null and void of teaching that saving faith is a special gift of God to a privileged and particular few.
The Gospel is the power of God unto salvation (to whosoever), and as the sinner hears the Word of Truth, he or she is born again, not of corruptible seed but incorruptible, through the word of God (I Pet. 1:23).
©Ron F. Hale, January 5, 2014
The Gospel is the power of God unto salvation (to whosoever), and as the sinner hears the Word of Truth, he or she is born again, not of corruptible seed but incorruptible, through the word of God (I Pet. 1:23).
©Ron F. Hale, January 5, 2014
MAN makes the difference! All we gotta do is conjure up some "volitional faith" per Studier.
Why does your ilk label? I told you I wasn't a Calvinist. Since you confirm this, please tell your pals. Also, it would be easier to simply say you are wrong than try to say I'm rambling when I directly answered your question.
The Greeks needed the Holy Spirit to understand scripture just like people today.
Where in the bible are "altar" calls sanctioned? Or is this merely a man-made tradition?
According to what Jesus said, knowing God is accomplished in one way only. A way you mock and scoff, and worse.
Matthew 11 verse 27 ~ All things have been entrusted to Me by My Father. No one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and those to whom the Son chooses to reveal Him.