Featured Is Saving Faith A Gift?

Ever and anon the cry of the noncalvinist is, Why doth he yet find fault?

 

LOL. Paul's arguments bite, don't they?

 

Yes, nobody can place faith in God without God giving grace to them to allow them to do so. Thus any decision on a person's part pertaining faith is only possible via God's gift of grace to make such a decision.

Classical Arminians and Calvinists agree on Total Depravity. Man is incapable on his own of doing anything "good".

As per Jacob Arminius who is certainly not Reformed:
Arminius states "In this [fallen] state, the free will of man towards the true good is not only wounded, infirm, bent, and weakened; but it is also imprisoned, destroyed, and lost. And its powers are not only debilitated and useless unless they be assisted by grace, but it has no powers whatever except such as are excited by Divine grace.
Arminianism - Wikipedia

 

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[Is Saving Faith A Gift?]

Yes it is

 

SBG said;
[QUOTE]There are some, especially from the “Reformed/Calvinist”, who say that Saving Faith is a Gift from God, which is given only to the “Elect”, so that they can believe, and be saved.[/QUOTE]

Yes they say that as they believe the bible

Yes, They enjoy the blessing of God's individual election unto salvation and godly service, as many of these calvinists also read verse10

 

SBG, now attempts to blame God for mans sin and rebellion

Another blame God post. Who says God has to save anyone?

You fail to trust that A Holy God is going to do what is right.
When He declares His purpose you hate what He declares.

 

SBG, continues on in opposition to himself, here;

All men are responsible to believe, if they do not they stand condemned as you posted;
18 He that believeth on him is not condemned:
but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.

19 And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.

20 For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved.

Do you hate the light SBG.? Calvinists believe all of it.

[QUOTE]as they were not given this Saving Faith, so that they could be saved?[/QUOTE]

You blame God again, scripture says man is to blame;
and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.
I and other Calvinists just read these verses and understand them.

You love to blame God

When God saves any sinner, it is MERCY, He does not have to.

And yet it is, seen and believed by a great multitude that no man can number

 

And it is. But what exactly does this mean? If it just means to list out the facts of the gospel message and then say "Do you agree to these as being true?." If that is belief then you can certainly do that on your own. If you go further and say "Do you agree that these statements apply to you personally?" I still think you can do that on your own. But honestly, do you think the human heart is capable of relying on the finished work of Christ and renouncing any good we can bring to this and totally rely on Jesus to be our only claim to be right with God? I don't think we have it in us to do that. We cannot on our own realize how messed up we are and how we appear before God. We cannot by natural reason not think that there has got to be something we could do to improve our situation before God. We do not have the ability to even realize the danger we are in. So yes, it's a gift.

 

You show you lack understanding of basic bible knowledge that would allow you to grasp what the bible says.
God did not sin.man did.Start there.

 

Aaron is spot on.The only rubbish are your posts.

 

God has commanded all men everywhere to repent.They do not want to.Acts17:30

 

A blind man cannot see a rainbow.
You like the blind man fail to perceive these truths.Today is another opportunity to thank God for His loving mercy in electing a multitude.