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I was just saying that it boils don to these 2 camps in the bottom line ense, and wecan agree our viewis more biblical, but they are still aved andbethren in Christ!

They just havea hard timeseeing that Free Will does not eally exist since the Fall, and that God is still sovereign in all things, especially salvation!

 

I'm freewill and I still believe Salvation is all of God. I just do not believe that we are forced in to Salvation. God may convince me that I need Him which He did. Although being convinced we need Him and being dragged off and saved against our wills are two very different things. Being willing to be saved is in scripture. being saved against our will is not. Being regenerated before faith is impossible and this is not in scripture either. Faith always come to man before Salvation, other wise men could be saved with out faith which is also impossible.
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I'm a pastor at a free will Baptist Church and I'm still in awe that the God of All Creation saved my wretched soul. To God be all the Glory through Jesus Christ our Lord! He did 100% of the Work Soli Deo Gloria!

 

The responses given here are the sort I hoping to hear in other threads. So if we got free-will we have the full ability and choice to not sin, right?

The apostles thought it was impossible to be saved.

Matthew 19

23And Jesus said to His disciples, “Truly I say to you, it is hard for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. 24“Again I say to you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.” 25When the disciples heard this, they were very astonished and said, “Then who can be saved?” 26And looking at them Jesus said to them, “With people this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.”


Now if someone claims they are already saved well then God is with them already ahead of the curve of "who can be saved?" done deal. they are saved. But then to turn around and say well to stop sinning is impossible. How? If being saved was already a impossibility and God is with you, why is it so far fetched that he can train you to no longer sin?

 

so was his Hugonaut forbears

 

Have you stopped sinning?

 

The Lord enables/changes our wills in order to have us able to accept Jesus, as all of us due to our sin natures would refuse salvation unless/untilGod changed our minds on it!

 

We still have a type of free will that allows usto make choices/decisions, its just that we cannot on our own freely decide " to come to Christ"

 

Because while still in this flesh, have a sin naturethat will NOTallow us to obtain sinless perfection state!

 

We can discuss/disagree on some things of the faith, but we are still one in Christ!

 

You pastor at a Free Will Baptist Church and you also believe in Eternal Security?
I thought that was a new one.

 

I read the bible for myself

 

Hey, I get it, and that's cool with me.

I just thought that was a rare combination indeed!

I was raised in, and I preach in, Southern Baptist pulpits and I don't believe in Eternal Security (as such)......

I also read the Bible for myself....
and I don't see it...but I think it's a minor point anyway...

Original Sin...that's a stickler for me, and I clearly think it's un-biblical.

But, hey, good for you brother! As long as they know it...more power to ya.

 

Think even the founder of so calle classic Armianism himself was not totally sure could lose salvation, but was positive had a chance to do that!

 

So if you don't believe in original sin, what do you adhere to?

 

I have read much about Benjamin Randall and i really haven't seen where he flat out says he believes he can reverse being born again.

 

Apparently not...but, everyone has their own spin on Arminius anyways.

Then again, Arminius is hardly the Messiah of non-Calvinists so, it doesn't matter that much.

Arminius was a smart guy....but, he was too steeped in Reformation Augustinianism for my liking.

He had to explain away Eternal Security and Limited Atonement from the standpoint of Non-passe-non-pecarre...

Therefore, his Theology went off-point.
He defended freedom of will from that assumption............

He should have realized that that particular philosophy was pagan Manicheanism and denied it whole-sale and his Theology would have been more on point.

Deny Original Sin.............

Understand that "Sin" is a willful act of disobedience and rebellion against God.
And stop believing that sin is some weird invisible, undetectable genetic disease you inherit genetically from your daddy....

And practically all of Christian Theology falls into place so simply and directly it's ridiculous...It's the most freeing and explanatorily valuable thing you can do (alongside understanding the power of God's Middle-Knowledge).