Can We Really Exercise Free Will?

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2 Corinthians 7:10

10 Godly sorrow brings repentance that leads to salvation and leaves no regret, but worldly sorrow brings death.
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2 Corinthians 7 v 10 ~ Godly sorrow brings repentance that leads to salvation without regret, but worldly sorrow brings death.
 
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2 Corinthians 4 verses 5-7 ~ We do not proclaim ourselves, but Jesus Christ as Lord, and ourselves as your servants for Jesus’ sake. For God, who said, “Let light shine out of darkness,” made His light shine in our hearts to give us the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. Now we have this treasure in jars of clay to show that this surpassingly great power is from God and not from us.
almost 31000 thousand posts and every direction the free willers have turned his word has had an answer, showing thats God will is above mans will, but yet here we are still trying to reason that mans will is nothing without him.

If you divide 31000 into for and against, that's 15500 answers they've had that has had an answer for them, that a lot of answers that surely anyone could see the truth of the matter 😂
 
My Bible does say that man is without excuse. What Bible are you reading that you have such scorn for God's truth?

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John 3 verses 19-20 and from Psalm 10 verse 4 This is the verdict: Light has come into the world, but people loved darkness instead of Light because their deeds were evil. Everyone who does evil hates the Light, and does not come into the Light for fear that his deeds will be exposed. The wicked reviles the Lord
I love birds could you do one of the Israeli bird the hoopoe 🙂
 
God makes them an heir because they received the gift, more twisting, keep trying, the benefits which succeed the gift are not the same as the gift, the gift is salvation.

All the CO-heirs of Christ were heirs with HIM in eternity. The Body of Christ does not lag behind the Head.
 
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god created people to hate him, that makes sense.

Oh right, that is how he glorifies himself.

You see what you have done? When you say such stupid, blasphemous things, you reveal your very low view of sin's disastrous effects upon man's heart and nature. You essentially deny that there were any really destructive effects of sin upon the hearts, minds and souls of man. Your very low view of sin artificially and unjustifiably exalts man.
 
You see what you have done? When you say such stupid, blasphemous things, you reveal your very low view of sin's disastrous effects upon man's heart and nature. You essentially deny that there were any really destructive effects of sin upon the hearts, minds and souls of man. Your very low view of sin artificially and unjustifiably exalts man.
It's a large part of what makes her a heretic.
 
All are sinners, but the reason God pours His love into their hearts is because they repent/seek/want/allow Him to do so (Rev. 3:20).
Those who never repent may be deemed totally depraved or hard-hearted (Matt. 13:14-15).
Revelation 3:20 is written to the church, ie...believers.
 
I love birds could you do one of the Israeli bird the hoopoe 🙂
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Philippians 3 verses 20-21 ~ Our citizenship is in heaven, and we eagerly await a Savior from there, the Lord Jesus Christ, Who, by the power that enables Him to subject all things to Himself, will transform our lowly bodies to be like His glorious body.
 
I love birds could you do one of the Israeli bird the hoopoe 🙂
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Matthew 18 v 19-20 I tell you truly that if two of you on the earth agree about anything you ask for, it will be done for you by My Father in heaven. For where two or three gather together in My name, there am I with them.
 
I love birds could you do one of the Israeli bird the hoopoe 🙂
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John 15 17-19 ~ This is My command to you: Love one another. If the world hates you, understand that it hated Me first. If you were of the world, it would love you as its own. Instead, the world hates you, because you are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world.
 
I love birds could you do one of the Israeli bird the hoopoe 🙂
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2 Peter ch 1v 1 To those who through the righteousness of our God and Savior Jesus Christ have received a faith as precious as ours: Jude ch 1 v 3 contend earnestly for the faith entrusted once for all to the saints. Acts 13 v 48 all who were appointed for eternal life believed. Acts 16 v 14 The Lord opened her heart to respond to Paul’s message. John 6 v 44 “No one can come to Me unless the Father who sent Me draws him." John 6 v 37a Everyone the Father gives Me will come to Me. Philippians 1 v 6 being confident of this, that He Who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion. Philippians 1 v 29 For it has been granted to you on behalf of Christ not only to believe in Him, but also to suffer for Him. Romans 12 v 3b think of yourself with sober judgment, according to the measure of faith God has given you. 2 Timothy ch 2 v 25b hope that God may grant them repentance leading to a knowledge of the truth. Isaiah 65 v1 “I revealed Myself to those who did not ask for Me; I was found by those who did not seek Me." God foreknew, chose, predestined, and saved us.
 
Once Christ died on the cross and we entered the church age. "All people" which you claim are the Gentiles, are the whole world or all people.

NOT in the CONTEXT of 1Timothy it isn't. Also, how can the Gentiles = each and every person in the world w/o exception when there are also millions of Jews in the world? Even Jesus in his High Priestly prayer in Jn 17 and in his Good Shepherd Discourse (Jn 10) recognized and acknowledged TWO flocks of sheep -- Jews and Gentiles!
 
NOT in the CONTEXT of 1Timothy it isn't. Also, how can the Gentiles = each and every person in the world w/o
exception when there are also millions of Jews in the world? Even Jesus in his High Priestly prayer in Jn 17 and
in his Good Shepherd Discourse (Jn 10) recognized and acknowledged TWO flocks of sheep -- Jews and Gentiles!
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John 10 verses 14-16 ~ I am the good shepherd. I know My sheep and My sheep know Me, just as the Father knows Me and I know the Father. And I lay down My life for the sheep. I have other sheep that are not of this fold. I must bring them in as well, and they will listen to My voice. Then there will be one flock and one shepherd.
 
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It's a large part of what makes her a heretic.

Reformed folks have long said that the Gospel itself is paradoxical: It is both Bad News and Good News. The bad news has to do with Sin and the disastrous, addictive, destructive effects it has on mankind. Many, many professing Christians love the Good News portion but are loathe to accept the Bad News about themselves and Sin. HIH is a poster gal for sweeping the Bad News under the rug. This is why she has such a high opinion of herself and her fellow man.
 
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I am not praying for the world, but for those You have given me, for they are Yours. John 17 v 9 I will give them a heart to know Me, that I am the LORD. They will be My people, and I will be their God, for they will return to Me with all their heart. Jeremiah 24 v 7
 
No, you can't. God first makes the spiritually dead spiritually alive and along with that gives them spiritual sight, spiritual hearing, and a renewed mind, and writes His spiritual laws into their hearts.



Completely disagree. Were you correct, it would make man his own savior - you would replace Christ as Savior with man. When/if you come to realize what the role of the Savior is, come back and we can discuss further then. It's amazing that being a Christian,
you don't recognize Christ as THE Savior.

You really do not get it but it's nice chatting with you.

When the sun rises because you believe it will, then I will congratulate you on raising the sun. If your believing had nothing to do with the sun rising then maybe you might start to understand how we are not our own saviour because we believe. :)

Have a really, really nice day.