Soteriology 101

I believe in the P of TULIP. does this make me a 1 Pointer

 

It's a start.

 

And the end

 

Thank you for addressing me and Galatians 3:18-29. It seems you acknowledge that Jesus is our faith, given to us that we might believe.

I am not attempting to change the subject or obfuscate. Note that in Galatians 3 Paul also says "through faith" as he says in Ephesians 2.

Since Christ is identified as faith in this passage, we can then understand what "through faith" is referring to.

Galatians 3:17-29
This is what I mean: the law, which came 430 years afterward, does not annul a covenant previously ratified by God, so as to make the promise void. For if the inheritance comes by the law, it no longer comes by promise; but God gave it to Abraham by a promise. Why then the law? It was added because of transgressions, until the offspring should come to whom the promise had been made, and it was put in place through angels by an intermediary. Now an intermediary implies more than one, but God is one. Is the law then contrary to the promises of God? Certainly not! For if a law had been given that could give life, then righteousness would indeed be by the law. But the Scripture imprisoned everything under sin, so that the promise by faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe. Now before faith came, we were held captive under the law, imprisoned until the coming faith would be revealed. So then, the law was our guardian until Christ came, in order that we might be justified by faith. But now that faith has come, we are no longer under a guardian, for in Christ Jesus you are all sons of God, through faith. For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ. There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is no male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus. And if you are Christ’s, then you are Abraham’s offspring, heirs according to promise.

 

We are no more than a bunch of mindless machines, like puppets, and God pulls the strings! The fact that time and again the Bible TELLS sinners to have faith, and to repent and believe, and that those who do will get saved, and those who don't, will be damned, shows that your belief that God gives us the faith to believe, is utter rubbish!

 

Says no one who actually understands God's supremacy and sovereignty.

Here we see your assertion based not on the facts of the Bible, but on your interpretation of what the Bible is saying.
You cannot see that you teach salvation by legal process not by grace alone.

I present Galatians 3:17-29, Ephesians 2:8-9, and Hebrews 12:2 as evidence.

 

you continue to fight against what the Bible Teaches, and therefore your reasoning is flawed!

 

show just ONE Scripture that says that salvation is by grace ALONE, apart from repenting of sins? This is a challenge to ALL who hold this warped, unbiblical teaching!

 

Ephesians 2:4-5
But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved—

There you go.

 

Salvation is by the grace of God. But this statement does not discount the need to repent. We do not expect to see the complete Gospel Message in every place

 

Luke 15:7 I tell you, in the same way, there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over 99 righteous people who don’t need repentance.

 

Van, I have asked you, and you avoided, why does nobody translate it that way? Do you know more than they do?

 

So if someone only heard "If you confess Jesus as Lord and believe God raised him from the dead you will be saved" and never heard anything else. Accepted that Believed that, died two seconds later, they are not saved?

 

the answer is found in Mark 1:15, what does Jesus Himself say?

 

Says repent and believe the Gospel. Notice it does not say anything about salvation does it? No.