Can We Really Exercise Free Will?
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No. What I wrote was correct. Are you saying that the healing of the blind is limited to the fulfillment of prophecy?
Galatians 5 v 1; Romans 10 v 10a; Romans 6 v 17-18; Colossians 2 v 20 It was for freedom that Christ set us free. Therefore, stand firm and do not be subject again to a yoke of slavery. With the heart man believes, resulting in righteousness. Though you used to be slaves to sin, you have been set free from sin and become slaves to righteousness. You have died with Christ to the spiritual forces of the world.
1 Corinthians 3 v 6-7 I planted the seed and Apollos watered it, but God made it grow. So neither he who plants nor he who waters is anything, but only God Who makes things grow.
is the main disagreement between you and Cameron on the bases that regeneration comes first for you but not cam ? I'm doing my best to understand both sides of the coin here,
Could you also go into more detail please about the works of the law written on hearts such as when it was written on hearts, would that be as child to for all people,
I have no comment on the works of the jaw.
To answer about the works of the law on the hearts of men I would need to study Romans 2 a little more.
A few offhand comments:
...no flesh is justified by works of the law...Galatians 2:16
...whatever it means, it is insufficient for salvation
So …..can I ask what do you do with all the verses like the ones I just quoted ? Just act like they aren’t there or ? I can’t seem to bring myself to do that .
“There is never a verse about loss of salvation or eternal life.”
yeah there’s just this repeatedly
“God “will repay each person according to what they have done.” To those who by persistence in doing good seek glory, honor and immortality, he will give eternal life.
But for those who are self-seeking and who reject the truth and follow evil, there will be wrath and anger.”
Romans 2:6-8 NIV
There’s nothing about “ losing someone’s salvation “ because it’s not a possession we have to lose. But I sort of was wondering if you also would just ignore the stuff like that or address any of it . Why does the bi ke teach that repeatedly in the gospel and epistles ? I wonder if it’s not true or accurate ?
Galatians 2 v 16 A man is not justified by works of the law, but by faith in Jesus Christ. So we, too, have believed in Christ Jesus, that we may be justified by faith in Christ and not by works of the law, because by works of the law no one will be justified.
It was a joke. You wrote jaw instead of law.
I've done some research. It's an involved answer so it will take a bit to write.
Stay tuned.
Also, I don't believe it has anything to do with hearing.
Romans 2 speaks about pricking the conscience, which is speaking of an inward experience.
Galatians 2 v 16 A man is not justified by works of the law, but by faith in Jesus Christ. So we, too, have believed in Christ Jesus, that we may be justified by faith in Christ and not by works of the law, because by works of the law no one will be justified.
So would it be fair be to say it could prick the conscience for every sin committed. But only some listened and some or probably a lot never.
so true lol, but then some more than others, it's a good covenant I feelBut all flesh needs the work of the jaw...
Those particular passages I have always found contradictory which I know does not mean they really are... 12 All who sin apart from the law will also perish apart from the law, and all who sin under the law will be judged by the law. 13 For it is not those who hear the law who are righteous in God’s sight, but it is those who obey the law who will be declared righteous. 14 (Indeed, when Gentiles, who do not have the law, do by nature things required by the law, they are a law for themselves, even though they do not have the law. 15 They show that the requirements of the law are written on their hearts, their consciences also bearing witness, and their thoughts sometimes accusing them and at other times even defending them.) 16 This will take place on the day when God judges people’s secrets through Jesus Christ, as my gospel declares. First it says they don't have the law then it says the requirements of the law are written on their hearts. Though it is only said to be sometimes their thoughts accuse them through their conscience...
A wholly synthetic determinist cultic myth cited 100's of times around here and never once proven.
And it needs to be said, if this determinist dogma were not so oft repeated, it would cease to exist, as no sane person would care to remember it.
would it visible to say the works of the law also pricks the conscience of our sin nature, and maybe a works of the law where all born with.
In Romans 2, Paul is concerned to convince Jews that what he is teaching concerning man in general in chapter 1 applies to them as well. He does this using 3 arguments dealing with them being Jewish, them having the law, and them having the rite of circumcision. These 3 were all sources of pride for the Jews. An example of the pride in their Jewishness is found with the Pharisees when they claimed Abraham as their father. They believed their lineage and heritage merited them favor with God. The same can be said of them in relation to the law and circumcision. In Romans 2, Paul is keen to show that none of these things hold or merit them them any favor with God.
In the particular section that God is dealing with the law, we find the verses speaking to the works of the law being written upon the heart. To make his point that the law itself offered no consideration to them with God, he uses the example of Gentiles who are without the law but keep the works of the law. In other words, the Jews could find Gentiles who didn't murder, commit adultery, or steal. Could they also claim to have favor with God because of this? And the answer is no. Likewise, doing the works of the law would not merit them favor. Hence, the things Paul spoke about concerning mankind in chapter 1 also included them.
That's the short answer as to the argument Paul is making concerning the works of the law.