just How Do the DoG Provide "sinner an excuse?"

God said: "all men everywhere"
Who are you to "qualify" or change God's Word!?
Only God can do that, and He didn't.
You want to change God's Word here to make it fit into your shoe-box system of theology, denying much of what the Bible says. It doesn't work! Stick to what the Bible says, and not what you think it says.

You are doing no better than the RCC who reads into the Philippian Jailer's household and claims that there must be infants in the "household" and thus justifies infant baptism. It isn't there.

 

1. God does "know" all who will accept Jesus. He is omniscient.
2. Man can never overdo the omniscience of God.
3. God's desire is that all men be saved.

[God] Who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth. (1 Timothy 2:4)

The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance. (2 Peter 3:9)
--His will is clearly stated in these two passages. His will is that all men be saved. That all men will not be saved is a result of their sinful nature and the hardness of their own heart against God. That is not God's fault.

Neither does it negate the command given in Acts 17:30 that he "commands all men everywhere to repent." His command there stands just as sure as the commands in the Ten Commandments. He commands all men everywhere, "Thou shalt not commit murder." It is written in their hearts. He commands all men everywhere to repent.

The death, burial and resurrection of Christ was sufficient to pay the penalty for all the sins of all mankind. Therefore all men everywhere are commanded to repent. Only those who choose to repent will that sacrifice be efficacious. Most men will not take advantage of the great gift that is freely offered to them, and that is unfortunate.

 

Why can't he? That is his stated desire.

That would be a slap in the face of Jesus for all who reject him--to give them eternal life. Eternal life is a free gift--to those who will receive it.

Who says he does? We are all wicked. Whosoever will may come. It is your decision whether to Christ or not.

God poured out His love on the cross. And yet there are those that refuse such wonderful grace. God has given them a will to choose to receive or reject. He doesn't force anyone. Those that reject Christ will remain lost forever.

All men are born into this world sinners. All men everywhere are commanded to repent. God has given the choice to man whether to reject him or receive him. The reason that man is lost is because he rejects the One who died for him. That is not the case will ALL men. Many receive him.

God grants salvation on the basis of repentance and faith. Salvation is the gift of God. Eternal life is the gift of God. Faith is not. Repentance is simply the other side of faith. The two go together. It is salvation that is granted on the basis of repentance and faith. God does not repent for you. Have you ever seen God repenting on the behalf of man? No. It is God that commands all men everywhere to repent. Scripture does not contradict itself. God commands individuals to repent. He does not repent for them as the Calvinists assert. You pit Scripture against Scripture all the while taking some out of context. The command to repent is still there. It implies the ability for all men to repent without the interference of God, for it is God that commands man to repent.

 

Yes, I have read Calvin (as a reference), when needed.
Grudem is simply a hodge podge of other systematic theologies. It is not worth the money spent. I have much better systematic theologies than his.

I don't need the philosophies of others. I know what the Bible teaches. If you are confused on what the Bible teaches, I suggest you get into the Word and study it.

You have not provided one verse that indicates that God gives faith to the unregenerate. Not one, in all these months that we have discussing this topic in more than five different threads. You cannot assert a statement without evidence. Your opinion is worth nothing.
As far as repentance is concerned, the Bible commands all men everywhere to repent. God does not repent on their behalf. God grants salvation on the basis of repentance. He doesn't give repentance. You need to read the Scripture carefully to understand what the Bible is teaching. God doesn't contradict himself.

Jesus said: "unless you have faith as a little child."
Was he lying?
Faith is inherent in a person. Children have faith in their parents. Christ was talking about the simplicity of faith. We must come to Christ with child-like faith and believe the simple message of the Gospel in order to be saved. God does not give spiritual gifts or the fruit of the Spirit to unregenerate people. Where on earth do you get these unscriptural ideas??

 

Asked and answered.

 

Could you please quote me one. I haven't seen any.
Yet there are plenty that prove just the opposite. Christ doesn't command one to do those things that are impossible for him to do:

And the times of this ignorance God winked at; but now commandeth all men every where to repent: (Acts 17:30)
--He doesn't give the unsaved man faith to repent.

He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him. (John 3:36)
--He commands the unsaved either to believe or not to believe. He doesn't give them the faith to do so. It is up to him to make the choice.

He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. (John 3:18)
--The choice to believe is up to the individual. God doesn't force anyone. God doesn't give faith to the unsaved/unregenerate.

And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house. (Acts 16:31)
--Where is it written that God gave faith to Philippian jailer that he could believe. That is not what it says.

Faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of God. God doesn't it give it to a person. It is an ability that every person has. I trust that from birth you have the ability to hear. And when you come to an age of understanding you have the ability to understand--understand the gospel which is the power of God unto salvation, not some mystical esoteric inexplicable Calvinistic influence that you can't define.

 

You need to get out of that Reformed library and read the Bible. There are literally dozens of verses where the scriptures show man has his own faith. See Mat 9:22, 29, Mat 15:28, Mark 5:34, Luk 8:25 for starters, there are many more.

In Mark 6:6 Jesus marvelled at his countrymen's unbelief, in Luk 7:9 he marvelled at the centurion's great faith. Neither of these verses make sense if God gives people faith.

You would rather believe a man-made doctrine than scripture.

You never show scripture to support your view, while non-Cals have shown you dozens of verses that refute your view over the months.

 

This verse deserves extra scrutiny.

Luke 7:9 When Jesus heard these things, He marveled at him, and turned around and said to the crowd that followed Him, “I say to you, I have not found such great faith, not even in Israel!”

If God gives us faith why did Jesus marvel at the faith that WAS FOUND in the Centurion?

 

Yes, it does not make sense that Jesus would marvel at his fellow countrymen's unbelief if faith is a gift. Would Jesus not know these person's were not given faith? The verse implies that he expected them to have faith, many miracles had been performed before their eyes.

Likewise, it does not make sense that he marvelled at the centurion's great faith if faith is a gift. Did he not know or forget the centurion was given great faith?

So, these verses, plus the many verses where Jesus said "your faith" or "thy faith" show faith belongs to the person expressing it.

That said, no person could believe without God's grace. If we did not have God's word that reveals Jesus to us, no man could possibly believe in Jesus (Rom 10:14, 17). So, if we have faith, the credit goes to God who enabled us to believe.