Featured Is Acts 17:30 only the elect or the entire human race?

How about - Like Lazarus He brought me to life with His word.

HankD

 

Yes, like Paul the law had put me to death. At the time I was in the USAF and after reading the OT law (Leviticus) my guilt came down on me and I DIED, when I got to the Book of John, I heard His voice and I came alive in a moment of time and I knew it and I will never forget it even in eternity.

Romans 7:9 For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.

Look,(in my case) I know I had nothing to do with it. I was put to death by the Law and trying to run away from God, nevertheless I was compelled to keep on in the scriptures until The Spirit brought me to Jesus Christ who forgave my sins and gave me life eternal and the promise of the resurrection.

John 10
27 My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me:
28 And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand.
29 My Father, which gave them me, is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father's hand.
30 I and my Father are one.

I don't have to try to figure out what came first, last, before, after, whatever, I am alive in Him and He did it.

I said "in my case" because we are all different and He meets us where we are.

Ya, ya I know I'm a semi-pelican (or something).

HankD

 

Would someone tell me why "dead" means "dead" when you are talking about "dead in sin" but it doesn't mean "dead" when you are talking about "dead to sin"

 

Ya, I don't remember the details.

HankD

 

Great observation! Some doctrines are built on selective .hermeneutics. All means everyone here, only the elect there and so forth. As used, to be spiritually dead means to be separated spiritually from God, and unable by our own works to cross the gap. But 1 Corinthians 3:1 teaches men of flesh can understand spiritual milk, even though they are dead in sin. Paul had to speak to the spiritually immature as to "men of flesh."

Consider Matthew 23:13 where unregenerate men are entering the kingdom of ;heaven. Obviously they have some (limited) spiritual ability.

And just as obviously, Acts 17:30 refers to all mankind, those who are and will be saved, and those who are not and never will be saved.

 

Those who have just the sin nature CANNOT grasp and apply the spiritual truths of the Bible, its like a Japanese person trying to understand English!

 

LOL, 1 Corinthians 3:1 demonstrates your fake doctrine is unbiblical. Matthew 23:13 demonstrates you fake doctrine is unbiblical.

 

I meant one who only knows there own native tongue! And paul stated that the things of the scripture hidden from unsaved , and the natural man cannot receive the things of God, as they are spiritually discerned, correct?

 

In my lifetime I have talked with an abundance of people.

Many, many were willing to admit that they were on their way to hell (lake of fire actually).
How did they know that if they were spiritually dead?

Yes, some heard and came to the light others remained in the darkness at THEIR OWN WILL - IMO.

HankD

 

Unless the Spirit enables you yo know the truth and be set free, the death of jesus for your sins makes no sense!

 

They aren't devils.

HankD

 

Ever wonder how raising Jesus from the dead offers proof to "all" men if "all" men of flesh are unable to understand spiritual milk.
Acts 17:31

 

Even if our wills were free there would still be a need for grace. It wouldn't matter how free our wills are, we can't eliminate the debt we have.