Recent content by David Lamb

We are not told either when the devil was created or when he fell. We are not told, as far as I know, but unless there is only one sinner sinning at any time, he must be, at least to the extent that he can tempt people all around the world. If we don't know when he was created, or when he...

Here in the UK it would be an unusually-large church!

Calvinists believe that faith is a gift from God, (not at all sure why you say that I "continue to deny the gift of faith). Faith is not something which has its source in the sinner themselves. For example, the Westminster Confession of Faith says: "I. The grace of faith, whereby the elect...

As you say, your actual words were: " The claim that the faith of a lost person merits salvation is the spawn of Satan, and promulgated by Calvinists." How does that differ from my "Sorry but I was responding to your post, where you stated that Calvinists believe that faith merits salvation?"...

Sorry but I was responding to your post, where you stated that Calvinists believe that faith merits salvation. I responded to say that Calvinists do not believe that. How is that changing the subject?

Calvinists (at least, those I have come across) do not believe that any sinner merits salvation. That is why we need a sinless Saviour. It is His merits that save us, not our own. As Paul wrote to the Christians at Ephesus: “For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works...

Yes, and praise God, it is a sure and certain hope, unlike when we say, "I hope it won't rain tomorrow."

Only if they believe in Jesus Christ.

God doesn't offer any hope to those who continue to refuse to believe on the Lord Jesus Christ.

Of ourselves, yes we are. When we do, it is not because we are better, more sensible, or have a higher IQ then those who don't, but because God has enabled us to do so. As to your "no hope" scenario, there definitely is hope: “1 ¶ Therefore, having been justified by faith, we have peace...

When God created Adam and Eve, their wills were indeed free. Since their fall into sin, they and their descendants became slaves of sin. It takes an act of the sovereign God to free them. The fact that Adam and Eve could choose to obey God or not to obey Him took nothing from God's sovereignty.

Thanks! I can assure you they are not all like that.

If you believe on the Lord Jesus Christ as your Saviour, then that shows you to be elect. Paul wrote to the Christians at Ephesus: 3 Blessed be]the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ, 4 just as He chose...

But God is almighty. He is called King of kings: “which He will manifest in His own time, He who is the blessed and only Potentate, the King of kings and Lord of lords,” (1Ti 6:15 NKJV) He does everything that He wishes: “9 Remember the former things of old, For I am God, and there is no...

Yes. Faith and belief are two English translations of the same Greek word pistis.