Featured Faith? Where does it come from?

No 1 example at least for me.

And they that were with me saw indeed the light, and were afraid; but they heard not the voice of him that spake to me. Acts 22:9
And the men which journeyed with him stood speechless, hearing a voice, but seeing no man. Acts 9:7

Do you think any of them were, "saved," at this time? By saved I think I will say given the gift of the Holy Spirit within 3 days as was Saul.

Myself, I do not believe they were. I do not believe they were being called at that time. Per your scenario above would the following apply? Simeon hath declared how God at the first did visit the Gentiles, to take out of them a people for his name. Acts 15:14 in this manner Jer. 3:14 Turn, O backsliding children, saith the LORD; for I am married unto you: and I will take you one of a city, and two of a family, and I will bring you to Zion:

 

Did Paul believe and imply that we have no choice but to sin? Did any of the Biblical writers believe and imply that we have no choice but to sin? Are all of the instructions and admonitions in the Bible against sin nothing but vain verbiage? When Jesus told the woman caught in adultery, “Go your way, and from now on do not sin again,” was He asking of her the impossible? No! Ultimately, the choice belongs to us because God created us with a free will and gave to us sufficient faith to obey Him.

 

Does a person then choose of "his" own free will to believe with "his" faith on the Lord Jesus Christ?
Or is he "forced" to believe because because it is really God that is doing the believing for him?
Jesus said "according to YOUR faith, so be it."

 

I am aware that some people have mistakenly extrapolated from the third chapter of Genesis the concept that man “fell” and lost his free will, and have wrongly interpreted some passages in the Bible based upon that mistaken extrapolation.

Please feel free to post more examples if YOU can find them!

 

Not at all. Salvation is all of God. It is his free gift to man to be accepted by faith. It seems to me that there are those here that despise the concept of faith so much so that they are willing to deny it. Abraham was justified by faith! Whose faith? It was his faith in God. The Bible is perfectly clear in that.

Look at Scripture, though it is doubtful that even scripture will convince one's mind already made up not to change.
Heb 11:4 By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts: and by it he being dead yet speaketh.
--Abel's faith; Abel's gifts.

Heb 11:5 By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death; and was not found, because God had translated him: for before his translation he had this testimony, that he pleased God.
--Enoch's faith; Enoch pleased God.

Heb 11:8 By faith Abraham, when he was called to go out into a place which he should after receive for an inheritance, obeyed; and he went out, not knowing whither he went.
--Abraham's faith

Heb 11:11 Through faith also Sara herself received strength to conceive seed, and was delivered of a child when she was past age, because she judged him faithful who had promised.
--Sara's faith.

Heb 11:24 By faith Moses, when he was come to years, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter;
Heb 11:25 Choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season;
--Moses' faith.
Note, when he was come to years he chose. He refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter.
He chose to identify himself with the Hebrews. He chose to suffer affliction with the people of God.
By faith, Moses freely made these choices.
When God called him to lead Israel out of Egypt, he argued with God. Five times he said no to God. He gave excuses. He was not "forced". God did not place "faith" in him to believe he could do it, as you would have us to believe. God reasoned with him. Pleaded with him. Encouraged him. Ultimately it was the choice of Moses. And he only did so because Aaron went with him.

The heroes of the faith. Whose faith. It was their faith in God. God did not believe for them. That is Calvinism, not Biblicism.

 

I do not make the false dichotomy between freedom to choose whether to sin and freedom to choose eternal life or death. Moreover, I do not deny the role of God’s grace or the faith that He instills in the hearts of men that chose Him.

 

I didn't come to Christ on my own. Neither did God give me the faith to believe.
Two young men shared with me the gospel in such a way that I was able to understand what the gospel was. I had never heard that message in the Catholic Church. Now having heard the gospel, the Word of God, that is where faith came from.
Faith comes from hearing and hearing from the Word of God. Was I now confident that this message was true, applicable to me, and would indeed give to me, a sinner before God, eternal life and forgive my sin?
I don't discount the working of the Holy Spirit as per John 16:8-11.
I trusted Christ that night. As the Bible says, "Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved," so did I. Why is it so presumptuous on the part of Calvinists to force me to say that if I am saved my faith had to come from God? Is that not arrogance based on a former theology. I don't believe that. I trusted him. He saved me. The work is not mine but his, on the cross of Calvary. I received through faith what he did by grace on the Cross. Salvation is a gift, the gift of God to be received by faith.

 

And in this debate that opinion is highly disputed as it has been throughout the ages.

Both of these are non sequitors, as they are both tremendous miracles that attest to the deity of Christ.
Christ was not attesting or demonstrating Calvin's precepts, rather his own deity.

 

Was wondering the same, and no, he's posted since this post of your's.

 

Apparently was banned back in March 2006. Since the re-design of the website I assume there has been an amnesty and all previous members have the ability to post. The "banned" status has not been changed by the site's new owner. Just a theory.

 

Even if you could or do choose eternal life it is questionable if you know what "eternal life" is since you believe "eternal life" can be lost, therefore not being "eternal" in its nature. You hold to a number of very questionable and confused doctrines:

http://www.baptistboard.com/threads...nal-salvation-security.1861/page-4#post-37716