Can We Really Exercise Free Will?
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you would rather respond to lies about Calvin than to know the truth about Calvin, seeing as none of you have accepted the offer over given over five times to know the truth about Calvin.
No just as all works based beliefs do, you lean on your own understanding, but what's worse is you would rather respond to people speaking ill of the dead.
Mat 7:6 - Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again and rend you.
Funny. Listen to some Calvinist preachers before making inane claims. Most of what you say comes from presumption and assumption. While some memes are funny, that doesn't make them accurate. So perhaps stop doing meme theology.
That was Calvin and Hobbes, btw, practicing for a Sunday school skit.
probably means you shouldn't do this to God's children which you do everyday, and it most likey means people who are knowingly and world prefer to worship satanMat 7:6 - Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again and rend you.
The Lord Jesus Christ died for all.....We get this wrong, and we end up with a precariously stacked pile of.
Paul called it skubala.
What is Gods "purpose?".......The Lord Jesus Christ.
If Jesus atoned for the sins of all mankind in the distributive sense, where in the bible is the redemptive covenant that God made with the entire world?
This is the evangelistic message being shared in Jericho? Actually it's probably closer than the mystery verses you will make up.Mat 7:6 - Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again and rend you.
These FWers are
They have that in common with other free willers, also.
Although in their minds, they are defending the character of God.
It is their habit to speak ill of God also, and blaspheme Him rather than admit they are wrong.
They have that in common with other free willers, also.
Although in their minds, they are defending the character of God.
and again you dismiss a genuine request.
You'll be hiding behind the word of God next
I am sure you do,
and then do you tell them the big caveat that stands in the way of their redemptionthat they must wait and see if they will be divinely poofed >>>>>>> by divine, particular, unique, gnosis intervention so that then they can believe?
Do you also preach the gospel is hid, the person cannot hear, is double blind, dead as in immobilized, held captive by Satan?
Do you let them know the atonement is only for some and maybe it is for them, maybe it is not?
Do you?
The caveat that salvation is for those who believe? You do not know who that will be either.I am sure you do,
You deny that the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing.
You have even claimed the gospel is not a spiritual matter.
And that it is not hid.
You prefer your falsehoods.
Like everybody hears.
Even though Jesus said otherwise.
Do you know what the gospel is? Maybe that's the problem. The gospel is the life, death, burial, and resurrection of Christ. Once that is shared, the work of the Spirit is to give the increase. I'm not trying to convince anyone of anything. Either God does the work of salvation or He does not. Either faith came by hearing or it does not.I am sure you do,
that they must wait and see if they will be divinely poofed >>>>>>> by divine, particular, unique, gnosis intervention so that then they can believe?
Do you also preach the gospel is hid, the person cannot hear, is double blind, dead as in immobilized, held captive by Satan?
Do you let them know the atonement is only for some and maybe it is for them, maybe it is not?
Do you?
No of course you won't, because you cannot say any more, otherwise is would be a big fact lie and a false invitation.
That is what Scriptures says. I wonder why you say the opposite.
Oh, it is so you can cling to your fantasy of free will.
In your fantasy, God is not even required to draw a person.
You contradict and deny what the Bible explicitly articulates in quite a few places.
I'm not giving an invitation; I'm sharing truth. If the Spirit is working in the individual, he will be saved. If not, he won't. Our job is to plant and water. We don't produce the increase. You believe you need to convince the individual. I believe it is the Spirit who must do this.
Incidentally, this is why there are so many professing people in churches who never got saved. People are encouraged to kneel at an altar and say a prayer and presto...you are a Christian. No godly sorrow, no heartfelt repentance, no conversion.
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.