Can We Really Exercise Free Will?

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HeIsHere said:
Not in this verse, it does not and you cannot just tie verses together because of a similar word... the other verse is after faith not before.

This verse is about believing before regeneration, you know the correct soteriology, accepted by all legitimate non Calvinist Biblical scholars!!!!

that ***if G1437*** you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.

ἐὰν ἀγαπᾶτέ με, τὰς ἐντολάς μου τηρήσετε. (John 14:15) "If you love me (and you might), you will keep my commandments."
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Try to stay up. The verses I gave referring to the heart are Ezekiel 36:26-27. Both the giving of the new heart and the giving of the Spirit that causes one to walk in His statutes and keep His judgments.
 
Cameron143 said:
Try to stay up. The verses I gave referring to the heart are Ezekiel 36:26-27. Both the giving of the new heart and the giving of the Spirit that causes one to walk in His statutes and keep His judgments.
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You have been proven dead wrong in your disastrously illiterate assessment of Ezekiel 36.
And yet you remain intransigent? Wow. Sounds like a bad day coming at the Bema seat. If in fact you make it there.....:)
 
cv5 said:
The Calvinists have a big fat Sharpie black marker scribbling in their minds whereby those passages cease to exist.....:)
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That command worked out so well for Israel that God had to do for them in the unconditional New Covenant what they could not do for themselves.
 
cv5 said:
You have been proven dead wrong in your disastrously illiterate assessment of Ezekiel 36.
And yet you remain intransigent? Wow. Sounds like a bad day coming at the Bema seat. If in fact you make it there.....:)
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can't be wrong when your dead m

Looks like you need God to wake you up from the dead again 🙂
 
cv5 said:
Wrong again little buddy. REPENTANCE from the HEART must come FIRST, which is in fact the qualifying requirement for entry in the New Covenant. THEN and only then do God's promised blessings flow.

You are utterly clueless in terms of accurate Bible knowledge in every possible dimension and metric, and certainly in the running for the most Biblically illiterate person on this board. You would think it impossible to be 100% wrong 100% of the time, nevertheless, you have achieved the impossible in this regard.

And BTW, your entire grasp of eschatology is likewise an appalling disaster. It cannot possibly be more erroneous, and is so at every point.
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Repentance is commanded. And individual doesn't obey until he has received a new heart and the Spirit. Until one's nature is changed, they will continue as they were.
 
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HeIsHere said:
Sounds like God requiring something of them.
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Surely He was requiring something.

Cast away from you all the transgressions that you have committed, and make
yourselves a new heart and a new spirit! Why will you die, O house of Israel?


Just before saying that?

He declared to them the following...


“Therefore, you Israelites, I will judge each of you according to your own ways, ​
declares the Sovereign Lord. Repent! Turn away from all your offenses then sin ​
will not be your downfall.' Ezekiel 18:30​
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God was requiring of them something that required them to make up their own minds. (volition)
 
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Cameron143 said:
Repentance is commanded. And individual doesn't obey until he has received a new heart and the Spirit. Until one's nature is changed, they will continue as they were.
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so true m

Only they see it as a change of mind m

God says his Godly sorrow leads to repentance which leads to salvation a new heart 🙂
 
Genez said:
Surely He was requiring something.

Cast away from you all the transgressions that you have committed, and make
yourselves a new heart and a new spirit! Why will you die, O house of Israel?


Just before saying that?

He declared to them the following...


“Therefore, you Israelites, I will judge each of you according to your own ways, ​
declares the Sovereign Lord. Repent! Turn away from all your offenses then sin ​
will not be your downfall.' Ezekiel 18:30​
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God was requiring of them something that required them to make up their own minds. (volition)
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his Godly sorrow entered there hearts first

Call it living hope or enabling grace or irresistible grace the choice is yours m
 
cv5 said:
You have been proven dead wrong in your disastrously illiterate assessment of Ezekiel 36.
And yet you remain intransigent? Wow. Sounds like a bad day coming at the Bema seat. If in fact you make it there.....:)
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When I get to the bema seat and gaze upon the Judge, I'll be looking into my Savior's face.

Are you suggesting that I'm not saved?
 
Rufus said:
That command worked out so well for Israel that God had to do for them in the unconditional New Covenant what they could not do for themselves.
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Nope! Because when Jesus was on earth, He was revealing and setting up His New Covenant to go in effect on Pentecost after His death (Heb. 9), which began in Jerusalem after His resurrection (Lk. 24) which has conditions of how be saved to which man must respond to (Acts 2)!

Try again!!
 
Cameron143 said:
When I get to the bema seat and gaze upon the Judge, I'll be looking into my Savior's face.

Are you suggesting that I'm not saved?
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No need to ask them that question m

He's already declared your not saved many many times

Besides this , it's against his sovereign will to determine such an act as he's been told.

And have many here

You can't decide who will be saved before the lord saves them m

It's in his sovereign will only he knows that
 
Believer08 said:
Nope! Because when Jesus was on earth, He was revealing and setting up His New Covenant to go in effect on Pentecost after His death (Heb. 9), which began in Jerusalem after His resurrection (Lk. 24) which has conditions of how be saved to which man must respond to (Acts 2)!

Try again!!
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Yup. Well spoken. And so simple even a child can understand. But evidently not a Calvinist....🥲
 
Believer08 said:
Nope! Because when Jesus was on earth, He was revealing and setting up His New Covenant to go in effect on Pentecost after His death (Heb. 9), which began in Jerusalem after His resurrection (Lk. 24) which has conditions of how be saved to which man must respond to (Acts 2)!

Try again!!
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they only responded because his active word his active faith cut to the hearts m and became there faith
 
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