Can We Really Exercise Free Will?
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right ... truth is revealed ... believe it ... or suppress the truth in unrighteousness ... both scenarios result from truth being revealed to an individual ...
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if both are "natural" (not born again) ... will both "reject it as foolishness and continue as he is" ?
Romans 10:9 That if thou shalt confess [Greek = homologeō] with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.Cameron143 said:
The Greek word for "confess" in Rom 10:9 is homologeō which means "to say the same thing" or "to agree". If/when the gospel is preached to an unbeliever and he or she "confesses", the unbeliever is agreeing with the gospel which is told to him or her.
1 Corinthians 12:3 Wherefore I give you to understand, that no man speaking by [Greek = en = in, not by] the Spirit of God calleth Jesus accursed: and that no man can say [Greek = eipon] that Jesus is the Lord, but by the Holy Ghost.
The Greek word for "say" in 1 Cor 12:3 is eipon which means to say or declare a truth.
Concerning Romans 10:9 ... it appears to me that when the gospel is preached and the hearer "homologeō" (agrees/confesses) that Jesus Christ is Lord and believes in his or her heart that God raised Christ from the dead, he or she is saved ... i.e. brought to salvation.
In 1 cor 12:3, the person is already born again because he or she is speaking in the Spirit of God. A person who is speaking in the Spirit of God will never call Jesus accursed and if a person calls Jesus accursed, he or she is clearly not "in the Spirit of God" but is speaking on behalf of an evil spirit.
According to John 16:14, the Holy Spirit will always glorify the Lord Jesus Christ.
John 16:13-14
13 Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will shew you things to come.
14 He shall glorify me: for he shall receive of mine, and shall shew it unto you.
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Calvinist speak with forked tongue.....
https://christianchat.com/threads/ponder-the-parallel.220768/post-5596961
Spiritually dead people are not doing spiritual things. They can only do natural things. They can mimic spiritual activity outwardly, but not inwardly.
False. God must needs address the world with the gospel message of the Passover Lamb, this being the epitome of the work of Spirit of Truth.
[Eph 1:13 KJV]
In whom ye also [trusted], after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise,
The phrase "spiritually dead" does not appear in the original texts of the Bible (Hebrew, Aramaic, or Greek). It is a modern interpretive paraphrase used in some English translations to explain the concept of spiritual death or separation from God due to sin.
And FYI, Satan does plenty of things with his supposedly dead spirit, making decisions according to his will day in day out. And will do much when he possesses a supposedly dead depraved body in the near future as well.
This inevitable future that you stridently deny BTW. Little wonder you are drifting aimlessly on a sea of error and false dogma.
What does Satan do that pleases God with his dead spirit?
Faith pleases God so...you have spiritually dead people pleasing God and acting in faith apart from God. This means that the natural man who always operates in the flesh subjected himself to the law of God and pleased God in the flesh.
The existing design was blowing up gearboxes and nobody seemed to know why.
I examined the analysis provided by the bona fide stress engineer and it was.....trivial and woefully incomplete.
Appallingly, everyone failed to recognize that drivetrain energy flows in TWO directions, and that there is a back-driven, impact-limited, impulse-dominated transient dynamic load being transmitted through an overly compliant drivetrain.
The existing design is tragically compromised in several critical ways.
Thank God my name is not in any way attached to that mess.......
You're clearly implying that sinners must be worthy of God's grace because God would never send his Son on a rescue mission to rescue the powerless. Even though Jesus said no human being is inherently good, you clearly reject that teaching, for you imply that no one is inherently 100% full of wickedness. Every human being in your world is redeemable and worthy to be redeemed.
Since Adam is CV5's superhero, don't be too surprised if Adam's spiritual daddy is even a bigger hero in CV's eyes.
False. It is God's will that the elder son Lucifer be SAVED.
2Sa 18:33
And the king was much moved, and went up to the chamber over the gate, and wept: and as he went, thus he said, O my son Absalom, my son, my son Absalom! would God I had died for thee, O Absalom, my son, my son!
Jhn 13:26
Jesus answered, He it is, to whom I shall give a sop, when I have dipped it. And when he had dipped the sop, he gave it to Judas Iscariot, the son of Simon.
Such a question clearly implies that you don't believe God performs miracles. In your world salvation must be a 100% pure natural act.
Correct.
Random people are just acted upon by God, completely placid and without any realization, essentially the brain dead, God hating person is activated and then made able to believe.
Their entire mantra is>>>>>>>> unless a person is completely placid they are saving themselves.
It is hard to believe any one can believe this nonsense.
Only in your delusional, carnal mind and imagination.
God's love that He shed abroad in his elect's heart that moves them to repent and believe the gospel.
Exactly! Especially, since FWers believe that God's love is unconditional in nature. If God loves every single sinner w/o exception, then that love alone would cover their sins. If God loves every single sinner w/o exception, he rejects no one; for he hates no one, he loathes no one, he despises no one, and no one is a an abomination to him.
Wrong: Not from what I have seen....
Maybe, that has been your problem of not understanding what is being said.