I don't believe in using a different language to deny Gods word.
God no doubt divided babbling peoples languages because no doubt he had a vision that one day people like you would start to bastardise the English language to
Can We Really Exercise Free Will?
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God no doubt divided babbling peoples languages because no doubt he had a vision that one day people like you would start to bastardise the English language to
Reformed teaching did not dictate my belief. Rather, what I came to believe led me to reformed teaching.
Scripture teaches that God is in control of all things right down to the most minuscule detail. And, since that is true, He determines those who belong to Him, [His elect]. There will be absolutely no sneaking in the back door! And in doing so, He will draw [His elect] and leave all others to their own destruction.
Man loves to boast in his own ability, but it is God who provides our ability. Therefore, your so called FW will get you nowhere.
The FW group says God only goes so far, and then leaves the decision to us. But, fallen man continues to say “That apple sure looks good”.
Scripture teaches that God is in control of all things right down to the most minuscule detail. And, since that is true, He determines those who belong to Him, [His elect]. There will be absolutely no sneaking in the back door! And in doing so, He will draw [His elect] and leave all others to their own destruction.
Man loves to boast in his own ability, but it is God who provides our ability. Therefore, your so called FW will get you nowhere.
The FW group says God only goes so far, and then leaves the decision to us. But, fallen man continues to say “That apple sure looks good”.
It's not only the matter of a different language little buddy.
More like a vastly different thought process modality. Encompassing far more than mere individual words can express.....
Regenerated man is no longer fallen. He has been given the ability to do by the holy spirit.
Only in your mind. Like I said, answer a panel of questions before getting back to me.
Man loves to boast as these free willers and Pelagian heretics do, telling us the flesh can do what Scripture
says it cannot. Scripture explicitly says we are saved by the will of God, not by the will of the flesh, nor the
will of man, but they say otherwise. Scripture says we are saved not as a result of anything we have done
but they say otherwise. It is sometimes difficult to keep up with all the ways and means they
deny and contradict what Scripture says, because there are just so many of them!
We already know she does not believe God is necessary in the process of coming to believe.
Another Calvinist straw man.
Scripture is clear that men are created more than just flesh.
Are you contradicting yourself now? You normally deny man's innate inability.
John Calvin laid the groundwork. The heart of this theological system comes directly from John Calvin himself. While Calvin drew deeply from Augustine’s emphasis on the sovereignty and grace of God, he shaped a distinct and influential teaching on salvation. In Calvin’s writings, we already find the major doctrines later associated with Calvinism: the deep moral inability of fallen man, God’s unconditional choice to save, a redemption designed for the elect, the effective drawing of God that brings sinners to faith, and the perseverance of those truly born again. These core ideas were present from the beginning, even though Calvin never arranged them into the later TULIP format or listed them as five points.
After Calvin’s death, Theodore Beza continued to carry forward and better articulate the same doctrines with greater clarity and detailed reasoning, strengthening the theological structure already laid down by Calvin. In his works, the themes that would one day be summarized as TULIP appear with strong definition. Yet Beza likewise did not create the TULIP acronym or publish a tidy five-point summary.
The familiar five-point expression did not arise until the Synod of Dort in 1618–1619, when Reformed leaders needed a concise response to the five points raised by the Arminian Remonstrants. Dort did not invent new theology. It simply organized existing Reformed teaching into a clear and memorable response that later came to be known as TULIP.
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I think that it is you who are wrong when you try to dictate using Hebrew/Greek to study as a necessity for understanding.Houston we have a problem....
That is like trying to tell everyone that God is not in control of the way in which the various versions of His word are being presented.
New versions of scripture are not the thoughts of a single person, but are gone over and over by many men in the hopes of making His word accurate and more easily understood.
If and when a bad version comes out, then it will quickly be labeled as such by the Christian community in general.
My beliefs are based on Scripture, as I have shown again and again. Of course, dishonest people deny this.
A lot of these dishonest free willers and Pelagian heretics are operating under a derangement
syndrome, and use that as an excuse to throw their lies, logical fallacies, and blasphemies around.
2 Thessalonians 2:10 KJV
"And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish;
because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved."
I think the verse speaks for itself.
However, if you need me to walk you through what it already says in plain English, I am happy to help.
2 Thessalonians 2:10 KJV tells us that the reason those who perish face destruction is because they refuse to receive the love of the truth, even though they might be saved if they accepted it. The responsibility for their perishing is on their refusal to receive the love of the truth so that they could be saved, not because God did not choose to regenerate them against their free will.
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Proverbs 19 verse 21 Jeremiah 10 verse 23b ~ Many plans are in a man’s heart, but the purpose of the LORD will prevail. No one who walks directs his own steps.
I will walk you through it. They received not (plain English there) because God did not give it.
God can only be known by those Jesus chooses to reveal Him. That is explicitly articulated in Scripture.
1 Corinthians 4 verse 7b; John 3 verse 27; Romans 9 verses 15-16 ~ What do you have that you did not receive? And if you did also receive it, why do you boast as not having received it? John replied, "A man can receive only that which is given him from heaven." "I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion." So then, it does not depend on man's desire or effort, but on God's mercy.
Unregenerate man has total inability to restore himself to God, but he has the ability to respond to God's teaching and be led to the one who can regenerate him