I have asked several times, but have never heard anyone explaining to anyone how they circumcised their hearts and ears.
Please elucidate us with your superior knowledge. Tell us all how you obeyed the command to do this.
Can We Really Exercise Free Will?
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Please elucidate us with your superior knowledge. Tell us all how you obeyed the command to do this.
Evidently the word of God is not able to overcome the heart in those who don't believe. It is only able to overcome the hearts of those who believe. It is only the power of God to salvation to those who believe.
But all this ignores what God is actually doing in salvation. He is coming to His people with the intention of saving them. And He does by giving a new heart and spirit and indwelling them with His Spirit. This is exactly the new covenant promise so eloquently articulated in Ezekiel 36:26-27.
Hey...that's easy for a FWer to explain since he can raise himself from his own spiritual tomb. And since he can do that, it's easy peasy for the Studiers of this world to rip open their own chest, tear out their old heart and replace it with a new one. And they do all the above AFTER they come to faith that was effectuated by their "freewill".
so true, Genez ... and so sad that the person to whom you were speaking responded with "TL;DR" ... however, some have read and taken it to heart ...
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Ezekiel 36 verses 25-26 I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean. I will cleanse you from all your impurities and all your idols. I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; I will remove your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh.
Translate: I don't really know if those who murdered Christ were wise or foolish people. I don't know if they murdered Christ because they rejected His gospel or "advanced Christian doctrine".
Nice theory though about Paul's "advanced Christian doctrine".
And since you're so big on context, how come you haven't noticed that the Gr. term rendered "foolishness" appears 7 times in the NT: 6 of those just happen to be in 1Cor and the other is in 2Cor.? I wonder if the "message of the Cross" was foolishness to those who are perishing (1Cor 1:18) because they rejected the plain ol' foundational Gospel of Forgiveness or "advanced Christian doctrine"? And were such people wise or fools in your eyes?
Ah, yes, the raising themselves volitionally to new life, which they NEVER explain, just insist they did by choosing to believe what they hear as foolishness while incapable of receiving the spiritual things of God which they are as yet opposed to, though they love to pretend the gospel is not heard as foolishness in that state by butchering other verses, and also dishonestly pretend they do not equate being spiritually dead with being physically dead, but we know the power of Christ only works through those who hear and those who hear are those who are called, even though they will also tell us everyone hears when obviously everyone does not, and Jesus even told us why that is. In their theology the flesh brings forth fruit unto life even though Scripture proclaims the opposite, but it is all part and parcel of their Pelagian heresy, since to them man is not the creature God's Word proclaims him to be.
Ezekiel 36 verses 25-26 I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean. I will cleanse you from all your impurities and all your idols. I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; I will remove your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh.
Yeah, yeah.. But the really big FWT HEADLINE NEWS is that all that stuff you quote above follow on the heels of the real miracle: Bad Trees producing good fruit; self-resurrection from the dead and evil hearts producing the godly fruit of repentance and faith. And all of this pales in comparison to what God does after the fact.
And then there are those who don't have either! So, where do you think you fit in?
Is there a verse that says that God gives repentance to all Gentiles w/o exception?
Oh, well, the corrupt tree not being able to bring forth good fruit is just one of the very very many things that Jesus said that the FWer rejects. They have a very selective way of applying the revealed truths of Scripture, since they must contradict and outright deny so much of it in preference to their self-exalting idol. It is built into their Pelagian heresy. They must have that bad tree bringing forth good fruit or their whole phony system falls apart, which it really ought to like the castles in the air it is.Yeah, yeah.. But the really big FWT HEADLINE NEWS is that all that stuff you quote above follow on the heels of the real miracle: Bad Trees producing good fruit; self-resurrection from the dead and evil hearts producing the godly fruit of repentance and faith. And all of this pales in comparison to what God does after the fact.
Matthew 7 v 17-18, Luke 6 v 4a and from John 15 v 4-5 ~ Every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit. A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, and a bad tree cannot bear good fruit. For each tree is known by its own fruit. Just as no branch can bear fruit by itself unless it remains in the vine, neither can you bear fruit unless you remain in Me. I am the vine and you are the branches. Apart from Me you can do nothing.
but the danger is some may be getting on fire for God out of anger, which could lead to many people being treated unjustly by Charlie's policies, where by you get more tragedies.
The thing is when you get a really high figure claiming they love God and I'm not talking about Charlie, I'm talking other people who claim they love God,. people in power who persuade people to vote on Christian values, and they say there going to make a change but they don't, Christians don't then vote no more no matter who tries to change there mind.
I never heard of Charlie either but having watched some of his documentaries he stood for many Christian values, he would go everywhere talking to kids who where not even Christian, getting in heated debates with them, but he showed a good level of tolerance, was never to forceful in his approach.
And now he's been shot. Its why the churches don't get involved in these affairs.
You'd think that "irresistible" grace would have prevented that rejection, after all it is suppose to guarantee sinners see sense, how much more should it have made a perfect creature (before his fall) see the error of his ways?
No, only you would think such nonsense! God clearly decreed the Fall. He predicted the Fall and to facilitate it, He cast his arch enemy down to earth instead of to the lake of fire after he sinned. The Fall was always the eternal plan!
Of course it was. It doesn't say that He chose us in Adam before the foundation of the world.
She has made very plain through multiple posts that she is void of the latter and the former is useless without that.
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.
And only Christ's sheep hear him. The goats: Not so much! Jesus didn't die for the goats of this world whom He never knew.
She outright denied Peter received revelation of this sort when Jesus affirmed that he had.She has made very plain through multiple posts that she is void of the latter and the former is useless without that.
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.