Because love is love. What the Samaritan did wasn't filthy rags. It was love for his neighbor.
Can We Really Exercise Free Will?
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Because love is love. What the Samaritan did wasn't filthy rags. It was love for his neighbor.
No you are being dishonest and falsly accusing people
we believe the primary and effacious cause of our salvation is christ.
He holds out the gift. We have a choice. recieve it. or reject it.
the only people who earn what they get is those who continue in unbelief.
But her. I guess you think your child earned that gift. because he or she took it (do you have kids) thats in effect what your saying..
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they have seen God (somethign you and I have never done) and shoe to remain with God. or leave with satan
its not that they can not repent. its that they already know God and reject him..
They still think they have hope. and will fight to the end.
and the SM recieved his help. he did not tell the one sent to save him away
How can you possibly believe that since "his supernatural power" isn't efficacious?
Because people still do not believe
He came to Jerusalem. and cried because he willed for them to be gathered together. but they were unwilling.
God does not remove free will.. He would not be a loving God if he did this
They have zero hope. And there's no hope expressed in this text:
Matt 8:29
When He had come to the other side, to the country of the Gergesenes, there met Him two demon-possessed men, coming out of the tombs, exceedingly fierce, so that no one could pass that way. 29 And suddenly they cried out, saying, "What have we to do with You, Jesus, You Son of God? Have You come here to torment us before the time?"
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It sounds like the demons also knew they had NOTHING in God, just like the devil himself has nothing in Christ! And they certainly understood what their end would be!
Did you know that Adam also had empirical evidence for God?
Right. So, this means man's will must be the efficacious cause behind God's salvation opportunity. And this makes God weak and impotent, which is rather odd since no one can thwart God's will -- except of course, the folks in Jerusalem -- and all FWers.
And Jesus never said it was his will or his Father's that everyone in Jerusalem believe in Him.
the Lord Jesus Christ tells us what is the point of the parable:
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Luke 10:
36 Which now of these three, thinkest thou, was neighbour unto him that fell among the thieves?
37 And he said, He that shewed mercy on him. Then said Jesus unto him, Go, and do thou likewise.
The Lord Jesus Christ did not tell the lawyer he needed to be like "the victim of sin"
the one who is "arrogant, prideful" is the one who shifts the focus from what the Lord Jesus Christ taught to something other than what He taught in an effort to argue about what is not the focus.Rufus said:
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But all of Adam's progeny are not merely drowning. They're already DEAD! You need to come up with a better analogy.
And, yes, Christ died for all people w/o distinction -- but not for all w/o exception. Besides, why would Christ die for people he knew in eternity would never believe in Him? Isn't God's "foreknowledge" all about Prescience? Did God misinterpret his cosmic crystal ball?
But this doesn't change the fact that victim of sin was in a helpless state. YOU, on the other hand, think you're as strong and healthy and robust as a bull. To deny this fact is to deny that you're a sinner!
Thus the GS fulfilled the "Golden Rule", so why would you think he was unregenerate?
Yes but the middle two did rejoice in the word and even grew in the word. For a time. Whether that represents 5 minutes or 5 years How is that even possible if they were never of the elect? If it is not even possible for the elect to even rejoice or grow in it? For it is all confusion. Plus any growth at all must come from God correct?
if you'd focus on what the Lord Jesus Christ taught in the parable, you could let go of your fascination with what is not the focus ... just let it go ... God can help you with that ... ask Him to help you.
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my bible says God gives the increase ...
1 Corinthians 3:6-7 I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase. So then neither is he that planteth any thing, neither he that watereth; but God that giveth the increase.
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can you rephrase the question? ... are you asking for Scriptural support for the fact that the dominion conferred to Adam and Eve was delivered to the devil?
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