You have built in the assumption that the person has not agreed, along with conflating of course.
Can We Really Exercise Free Will?
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You have built in the assumption that the person has not agreed, along with conflating of course.
The person wasn't part of the equation. That's how grace works. Still didn't answer the question: what choice did you make when God provided sunshine today?
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Ah, dear Cameron, the rub is that you must choose to believe that the sun is shining.
The fact that is it and God made it so is not enough for these Pelagian heretics.
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Not to partake of it just as some do with His Son who was also provided for the benefit of all.
You received benefit you didn't strive for or choose. Plants grew today. You ate. All due to the grace of God. He is the fount of every blessing, and every good and perfect gift has come down from the Father.
FWIW, it seems clearly that you originally said man's will would be restored.
That's (first sentence) a bold and absolute statement. Can you back it up?
You see no volition of men involved in actively receiving vs. rejecting God's grace for example?
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And show me from scripture where it states that someone should choose God as a means of salvation.
You don't understand grace. It is not conditional.
And show me from scripture where it states that someone should choose God as a means of salvation.
The gift is still PERSONAL salvation, not the sunshine.
Either one accepts/yields or one does not, no one is forced.
Agree with the last sentence.
Need to qualify your intention with the next to last.
Third must be modified to say I ate when I chose to eat and actively ate.
Second, I reasonably assume is true.
Disagree with the first. I in fact did chose and did not reject what God graciously provided and the benefits therefrom. As for 'strive" I guess we'd have to discuss our Lord's lesson of the wide and narrow gates and then the instructions and even command re: striving for things in Christ in Spirit.