Featured God is Completely Sovereign or in Control of EVERYTHING that happens.

Hello George,
I answered this in posts #14, #16 and, especially, #35. If you have any comments about these posts, I'll be glad to discuss them with you as I have time.

 

Ok, will check them out again if I haven't.

 

LOL, George, you are a very, very opinionated man. You have openly looked down on me in other threads. It's too bad you abandoned reformed understanding of scripture. As I read scripture, I moved from a man-centered, self-in-control theology to a God is entirely Sovereign over all things theology. I would never want to go back to the cud of that theology which lowered God and lifted man up.

 

The spiritually dead are not spiritually unwell; they are spiritually dead. Have you got that?
I answered your misuse of Galatians 3:24. You have not brought up your crackpot interpretation of Matthew 23:13 on this thread (not to me, anyway). I thought you might have given up on it.

 

Hopefully one day I can be as humble and spiritual as you.

 

The discussion is of Ephesians 2:1; people who are 'dead in sins and transgressions.' It is the Bible that calls them dead; what do you call them?

 

Are you sure you gave me the correct post numbers in that thread?

 

Death is not the lack of life, it’s the LOSS of life. A rock is not alive, but it’s not dead, either. A corpse is dead, because it used to be alive. A person can’t be born dead, unless, they were at one time alive. Are you saying our spirits were dead at conception? Then they must have been alive before conception, but that’s not Christian doctrine.

 

Yes. They are in answer to Van and therefore are answering his points. #35 is the main one; I included the others to give you some context.

 

Ok you meant in this thread. I was referring to the thread that was linked:
Prove it wrong: There is not one verse about predestination to salvation

 

Humans have no capacity to be saved without the free gift of God’s son. They are dead in the sense that they will die without the possibility to be saved from death. Jesus fixes that problem.

Now men can hear the word, and believe, because faith comes by hearing the word, not by a magical infusion of grace apart from Christ’s sacrifice.
Romans 10:13-15 (KJV) 13 For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. 14 How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? and how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard? and how shall they hear without a preacher? 15 And how shall they preach, except they be sent? as it is written, How beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace, and bring glad tidings of good things!

See! It’s not magical.

 

That thread is now closed. I don't think I contributed to it, having withdrawn from the board for a while.

 

The love of God. The love that created the heavens and the earth. God's Sovereignty is not as dire as you make it. But all are against God. So no one, not even the elect comform to God’s love by nature and being born.

 

Flying to the moon is not even God's will, why be silly?

 

I've noticed that one of the sources of our disagreements with Calvinists is that they take the contextual truths of some verses and apply them in a way that is 1) blanket and 2) absolute.

 

They are dead in sin. I call them normal people. Since I do not know much about you, I would say you are still dead in sin as well. Nothing has changed since your birth.

Yes we can know we are in Christ and yes we have a new outlook on life. But you are still the you as you were born. Death has no sting, but you are still you. Other than some doctrine, which is a mind thought, not you; do you have a mark or certificate from God that identifies a different you, from the you as a new born baby?

Only by fruit can one be known. But even fruit can be deceiving. Wolves can have the same fruit.

However, spiritual death started with Adam, but nothing died. The term dead in sin is the physical condition. The term dead in Christ is about a spiritual condition that is dead to the flesh, but these are figures of speech. It is not wrong to use them. When it comes to a dead spirit, that is a literal thing, and should not be conflated with spiritual death. The death of the spirit is reserved for the lake of fire and the second death. A reprobate mind does not kill a spirit. It means the spirit is now a demon.

 

I see you have no ability to change your will. Since I never said you could will yourself elected, how can you claim you can will to do anything?

Did I once equate free will to sin? Free will is the ability to choose without outside force. Sin is the result of any choice. By your logic, God just removes all wrong choices and you can only do God’s will. That is not in the Bible.

God did that to Pharoh and Nebuchadnezzer, yes, but you apply that to everyone? How does that work out? We are just programmed and have no will at all? The Bible states we do have wills. Nor does God take away all the wrong choices for the elect. We still have to confess the wrong results of the choices we made. Because it is very easy to make choices.