Recent content by Charlie24

You know what we mean by "free will" you just want to argue as you always do. Twisting and turning what's said is your game!

If you don't know what "free will" means by now, I'm sure I can't explain it for you.

It looks like you're the one with the exaggeration. We are all fallen just as Adam and we all have free will just as Adam. Nothing has changed.

God doesn't want robots that He elected to love Him, He wants man to love Him by their own free will/choice. That's the reason man began with God given free will in the Garden and nothing has changed.

Christ said he would send the Comforter/Holy Spirit, and He would convict of sin and of righteousness. He does it through the hearing of the Gospel. The hearing of the Gospel through the power of the Holy Spirit is our awakening to the truth. Eph. 1:13 "In whom ye also trusted, after that...

I take no credit for my salvation. How could I, there was nothing I could do but say, yes Lord I believe.

I believe in total depravity, and it's the hearing of the Gospel that man realizes who he is and his need for a Savior.

Is it possible you're making the choice to believe on your own having heard the Gospel message? Let me ask it in another way. Is it possible that you have heard the Gospel with the conviction of the Holy Spirit and believed that truth and God gave you righteousness? Not Him making the choice...

I'm thinking the Calvinists think they are the elect by believing it was predestined for them to believe and so they do believe, not realizing they made a free will choice to believe. I've never had a problem with the faith of the Calvinist's, I have a problem with how they think they came to...

It's a total misunderstanding of predestination. Just look at the answers in the OP that outright deny the Word of God, changing it to meet a theory devised by man. The believing individual is predestined to God's plan before the foundation of the world to be conformed into the image of...

I would agree on how we are saved, but disagree that all here see it that way.

Yes, it's very easy to assume this or that in Scripture. I call it reading between the lines, and I have some experience with it, lol. It's probably best kept to oneself that to bring it out here on the boards.

I'm sure the Lord will have no problems correcting our faults of reading between the lines. I think we all have some surprises coming.

I don't think He did, not because He couldn't, but because He made Himself of no reputation and took upon Himself the form of a servant. I don't think He knew what was around the next corner unless the Holy Spirit told Him. I see Him totally lead by the Holy Spirit, waiving His rights of Deity.

He promised you eternal life, do you think He's bound to that? Not to mention many other things. He does it all by His plan before the foundation of the world according to His good pleasure.