By using your logic here, God has free will to sin, and just merely chooses not to.
The Bible specifically says "God cannot sin." God cannot do that which is against his nature to do.
I wish you guys would get off this 'robot' kick. Neither sides believes this, but you guys keep stating it.
It is the logical outcome of the predeterminism of Calvinism.
Man has no free will, no will to choose. Every path is chosen for him; predestinated before the foundation of the world, even as this post is. God knew it; God foreordained it. My will had nothing to do with it. Everything, good or bad comes from God. He predestines some to Hell and some to Heaven. Why pray? God already knows who the elect are and who the reprobate are. Everything is predetermined before hand. We are but puppets in the hand of the Great Puppeteer. If you read either Calvin or Augustine, that is how he would picture mankind.
And sinners have no free will. The will is bound the nature. The truth...Jesus Christ...is the only freedom people have...
They will someday stand before the Great White Throne of God, and give account for themselves. Their names will not be written in the Book of Life, and that for one reason only:
They chose not to trust Christ.
It was their choice; their will. God did not force them into any decision.
The decision made was not made before the foundation of the world. It was theirs. God did not "bind" their will. They had the freedom to choose. All men do. It is in our image--the image that God made us in.
Regeneration happens first, then I can agree with this.
Regeneration and salvation happen simultaneously. It is all one package.
Eternal life is a gift. You stated a gift can be received or rejected. Your inconsistencies are showing everywhere....
Many people refuse gifts for one reason or another. There is no inconsistency here.
Gifts are rejected because of pride. Some people think they are too good to receive a man's offer to help. They will do it on their own.
Some people refuse a monetary gift because they have enough already, so they think.
Some people refuse a gift simply because they don't like the giver.
There are many reasons why a person may refuse a gift.
What inconsistency is there?
The gift must be received or it is useless.
In order for the gift to be received it must be received in humility. It is an offer of salvation. To receive a gift of salvation one must first admit that he needs it, or is in need of a Savior, that is that he is a sinner. That is a hard thing to do for many people. Pride gets in the way.
John 10, 17, Romans 8, Ezekiel 34 Revelation 17, 20 all refute this notion. If Christ paid everybody's sin debt in full, then there's no wrath to be meted out to them. That's cruelity for God to cast them headlong into the lake of fire, even after Christ paid their debt for them. That's a weak work done by Christ. You have a very sad theology...
Christ paid for their debt, and they cast the gift away. What an insult to Christ. Is it no wonder that they are cast into the Lake of Fire, and deservedly so! This is justice, not reprobation. God is not cruel, but just.
It is cruel for the Calvinistic God to create man solely for the purpose of throwing him into the Lake of Fire for all eternity and for no other reason but.
I shot a gaping hole in your theology...that's the mistake of calvinism. It is the prime example of salvation...
No, it is a mistake in Calvinism. A dead person (corpse) can neither answer to God, nor can he answer to the devil. If he is dead then he is dead. He can't to anything. The comparison to physical death is the wrong comparison.
Faith is a gift of God...I'll show you some verses for you to ignore....
Faith, in the Bible, is never treated as a gift to the unregenerate.
It is defined as a spiritual gift in 1Cor.12 and as a fruit of the Spirit in Gal.5.
God does not give spiritual gifts and the fruit of the Spirit go unsaved individuals. When faith is given to individuals they are always regenerated individuals, never the unsaved.
Give me your scripture. You won't find God giving faith to the unsaved.