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This is true. We do have faith from hearing the word. In fact this is the only way we can receive it. That is faith in Christ. Although man can have faith in any thing he wishes to believe. We have faith in Christ because we choose too. We accept it rather than it being shoved down our throats.
Nature did not create man God did this includes everything about man.
MB

 

Believing in Christ for Salvation

We are saved only when we believe even though we have sinned
Since Grace comes through faith it is only reasonable that Faith must be present for grace to be able to come through it. We should also do good works. Good works include giving of ones self in love most assuredly giving to the poor and down trodden. Notice it say we should do good works although if we do not we are still saved. It is not a commandment to do good works. It is a suggestion.

Acts 2:37 is about conviction which is what being pricked in the heart is about. This happens when we are being convinced of Christ. Conviction is most important. Act 16:14 Lydia's heart was opened to the reception of Paul and his message. Note this is not regeneration because she already worshiped God but rather receiving Paul in to her home.
Act 16:15 And when she was baptized, and her household, she besought us, saying, If ye have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, come into my house, and abide there. And she constrained us.

If you will notice in verse 9 it says clearly that if any man enters through the door he will be saved
Joh 10:9 I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture.: It explains how we become sheep by entering through Christ the door

Act_16:31 And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house.
We are born from above by Believing in Jesus Christ. There is no other way such as being regenerated before faith. This simply will not work. We are only born again by believing in Jesus first.
MB

 

The stepping stones of Justification
begin with the sinner being Convicted
by The Word of God, for being 'ungodly',
Totally Depraved, with No Ability
to 'have a fantasy', count a bead,
or believe in Santa Claus to Save their soul.

 

Unless someone was returned to The Garden of Eden, the Experience of Salvation has always included something to be Saved from.

While the text contains the word, "ungodly", the false professions of deceived Arminian Easy Believers never does.

That is all there is to the Fake, Phoney, False, and non-existent 'debate', between pretendingly innocent deluded 'consenters to historical realities', alone, and the ungodly found in Scripture.

 

It is a little sad to hear the truth of scripture so badly mangled by those intent on destroying strawman of their own making since it renders real conversation ... impossible.

 

So when the Gospel is proclaimed to a group, why are some saved and others not saved? Are those who “believe” BETTER because they made the personal choice to believe (due to a better inner nature)? If not, then what is the difference?

You have been abundantly clear about rejecting the Reformed answer, but trying to understand your alternative seems like trying to nail jello to the wall.

 

You're still describing a faith that a man possesses by nature, and not a faith that is imparted to the sheep. So, no. We're not talking about the same thing at all.

But would you call the life of a child born something "shoved down its throat?" That you call the Second Birth something like that shows you have very little understanding of what is going on when someone is saved.

No one said it did. God did not create men with faith. Adam and Eve did not walk by faith in their innocence, and whether or not it was imparted to them at the preaching of the coming of the Seed of the Woman is anyone's guess. You were not created with faith, and you are not born with it. But even if Adam and Eve were created with faith, or the natural capacity therefore, what God created is corrupted now. Why do you allude to the creation of the mind as if that somehow sanctifies or hallows it. It's corrupt and evil and weak. It's at enmity with God.

 

Of course you did. It permeates your OP. Every time you use the term "our faith" you're alluding to something you think you possess by nature.

 

Van: No one said anyone has faith by nature.

Aaron: Yes you did. In the OP

Van: Well ... er... umm....stop rewriting Scripture, you false, obscene Calvinist! It says it's 'your faith.' It couldn't come from God in a supernatural way...except by ... er ... ummm.... creation! ... which would mean...uhhhh...by nature! You SCRIPTURE DENIER YOU!!!

Aaron: Oh, so you DID say people have faith by nature.

No matter how you slice it, Van-ity, you're coming up election by merit.

Concerning faith: we know not all men possess it, so what is its source?

 

Gotchya by the boys, Van. Just admit it.

 

Arminians assume "Jesus Took Care of sin" for everyone and, in effect, placed everyone back under Probation in The Garden of Eden, with sin being no issue.

They then say they want to play with how they will be brilliant enough to step up and declare their Justification and The Magnificence of their "Belief", to OUTDO ADAM and his stupid choice to eat of the Tree of The Knowledge of Good and Evil.

This Eternally Fatal Position of being a dead in trespasses and sins, wretched sinner, by Nature, habit, and choice, leaves them dead in trespasses and sins, deceived, weighed in the balance and left wanting.

 

What justifies us is the death and resurrection of Lord Jesus period!

 

This is the question.

(I know it "comes from hearing the Word", but not all that hear the word gain FAITH and are saved ... so WHAT IS ITS SOURCE?)