1) Scripture teaches many will seek the narrow door (Christ) but will not find it. Thus the lost are able, in their spiritually dead sinful state to seek God. Luke 13:24
2) Everyone who believes [as discerned by God] that Jesus is the Christ, has been and remains born anew by God. The sequence is:
3) In John 3:3 the word translated see is used in the sense that we "see" our doctor. Thus it refers to access not awareness. Thus consistent with the sequence, first we become aware, they we respond.
4) Acts 16:4 says God opened Lydia's heart meaning the gospel was presented in a way she could understand and accept without any supernatural involvement. This also is consistent with the sequence, first the lost become away, then they respond. So our faith is not the starting point or the ending point,
5) God choosing to credit a lost person's faith as righteousness is a gracious gift, turning a sows ear into a silk purse. Obvious the faith of a lost person is worthless, and without merit, as it is a filthy rag before they receive God's gracious gift. God's provision of "credited faith" is in God's hands, not ours. This is consistent with Romans 9:16, which teaches salvation depends not on the lost, but upon God. Biblically the "gift of faith" refers to the gift of crediting our faith, rather than the compulsion of irresistible grace.
6) Ephesians 1:4 teaches God chose His Redeemer before the foundation of the world, and therefore in making that choice, He chose us in Him corporately as those His Redeemer might redeem. No individuals existed or were chosen before creation, and all individuals subsequently chosen had existed as not a chosen people who had not yet received mercy, 1 Peter 2:9-10.
7) Acts 13:48 teaches that the Gentiles who agreed with the arrangement specified in the gospel for eternal life, believed. The Greek word, translated as appointed refers to an arrangement agreed upon by mutual consent, rather than a unilateral dictate.
8) When scripture says belief or repentance has been "granted" it means allowed rather than disallowed by their hearts being hardened.
Thus fallen humans are mostly, but not all, able to hear and to heed the gospel with varied responses.
9) No verse or passage says a lost person must be supernaturally altered in order to hear and to head God's revelation.
a) John 6:37 refers to God transferring a chosen individual spiritually into Christ, as after the transfer Christ will not cast him out. This verse has nothing to do with "coming to faith in Christ."
b) Romans 8:29-30 says those whom He foreknew as the target group of His redemption plan He also planed to have them be spiritually born anew, thus conformed to the image of His Son, a sibling so to speak, and He implemented His plan, by calling them on at a time into the kingdom of His Son, when He credited their faith. Following the transfer, they underwent the washing of regeneration, removing their sin burden, what God held against them, which resulted in their justification, and then He gloried them, uniting them with Christ, making them eternally alive.
10) Romans 4:16 says receiving the promises given to the seed of Abraham is by or based on "credited" faith which is according to grace rather than the works of the Law.
In Summary, Provisionism is fully consistent with all scripture, and those who claim otherwise use errant interpretations of vague scriptures to support their false claims. Thus Provisionism is Biblical.
2) Everyone who believes [as discerned by God] that Jesus is the Christ, has been and remains born anew by God. The sequence is:
a) God reveals His gospel
b) Those not yet hardened, hear and understand and respond
c) Some embrace the gospel fully, some partially and some reject it
d) Those whose faith God credits as righteousness, He causes to be born anew.
Thus everyone believing as discerned by God has been born anew as a child of God.b) Those not yet hardened, hear and understand and respond
c) Some embrace the gospel fully, some partially and some reject it
d) Those whose faith God credits as righteousness, He causes to be born anew.
3) In John 3:3 the word translated see is used in the sense that we "see" our doctor. Thus it refers to access not awareness. Thus consistent with the sequence, first we become aware, they we respond.
4) Acts 16:4 says God opened Lydia's heart meaning the gospel was presented in a way she could understand and accept without any supernatural involvement. This also is consistent with the sequence, first the lost become away, then they respond. So our faith is not the starting point or the ending point,
5) God choosing to credit a lost person's faith as righteousness is a gracious gift, turning a sows ear into a silk purse. Obvious the faith of a lost person is worthless, and without merit, as it is a filthy rag before they receive God's gracious gift. God's provision of "credited faith" is in God's hands, not ours. This is consistent with Romans 9:16, which teaches salvation depends not on the lost, but upon God. Biblically the "gift of faith" refers to the gift of crediting our faith, rather than the compulsion of irresistible grace.
6) Ephesians 1:4 teaches God chose His Redeemer before the foundation of the world, and therefore in making that choice, He chose us in Him corporately as those His Redeemer might redeem. No individuals existed or were chosen before creation, and all individuals subsequently chosen had existed as not a chosen people who had not yet received mercy, 1 Peter 2:9-10.
7) Acts 13:48 teaches that the Gentiles who agreed with the arrangement specified in the gospel for eternal life, believed. The Greek word, translated as appointed refers to an arrangement agreed upon by mutual consent, rather than a unilateral dictate.
8) When scripture says belief or repentance has been "granted" it means allowed rather than disallowed by their hearts being hardened.
Thus fallen humans are mostly, but not all, able to hear and to heed the gospel with varied responses.
9) No verse or passage says a lost person must be supernaturally altered in order to hear and to head God's revelation.
a) John 6:37 refers to God transferring a chosen individual spiritually into Christ, as after the transfer Christ will not cast him out. This verse has nothing to do with "coming to faith in Christ."
b) Romans 8:29-30 says those whom He foreknew as the target group of His redemption plan He also planed to have them be spiritually born anew, thus conformed to the image of His Son, a sibling so to speak, and He implemented His plan, by calling them on at a time into the kingdom of His Son, when He credited their faith. Following the transfer, they underwent the washing of regeneration, removing their sin burden, what God held against them, which resulted in their justification, and then He gloried them, uniting them with Christ, making them eternally alive.
10) Romans 4:16 says receiving the promises given to the seed of Abraham is by or based on "credited" faith which is according to grace rather than the works of the Law.
In Summary, Provisionism is fully consistent with all scripture, and those who claim otherwise use errant interpretations of vague scriptures to support their false claims. Thus Provisionism is Biblical.
