Recent content by Tenchi

No, these are not false claims but what is plainly stated in the verses I cited. What does the verse say? John 6:44-47 44 "No one can come to Me unless the Father who sent Me draws him; and I will raise him up on the last day. Any clarification/qualification of this verse in what...

Then why write anything at all?

I've never said that it is going too far to say God knows our thoughts, you did. I simply showed from Scripture that this isn't so. Please read my posts more carefully. None of this actually well-addresses the points I made in my last post to you. Mostly, you seem to be purposefully talking...

As well, the Spirit of Christ is working in every believer to "conform them to the image of Christ" (Ro. 8:29; 2 Cor. 4:7-11; Ga. 5:22-23), ministering to them Christ's life as they walk in daily submission to his control, giving them both the ability and the desire to do God's will (Phil. 2:13).

No, I don't think you'd disagree with what Scripture says about the Holy Spirit. But, like many Baptists I've encountered over the years, you seem to be trying to subtly diminish the Holy Spirit, regardless; as I said, making him a sort of "second-stringer" on "Team God," though he is co-equal...

But the Holy Spirit is called both the Spirit of Christ (Ro. 8:9; Phil. 1:19, 1 Pe. 1:11), and the Spirit of (the living) God (Ro. 8:9; 15:19, 1 Cor. 6:11; 2 Cor. 3:3) and is, in orthodox Christianity, co-equal with God the Father and God, the Son. As God, then, is the Holy Spirit not worthy of...

No, you wrote that it "goes beyond what is disclosed in Scripture" to say that God knows our thoughts. I supplied verses that indicate this isn't so. Under the New Covenant, what you've written about being made righteous in Jesus Christ is true. But Abraham did not live under this covenant. He...

??? I have no idea how you've come to ask this question in response to what I wrote.

It's going beyond Scripture to say God is able to "read" our thoughts? Psalm 139:1-4 1 O LORD, You have searched me and known me. 2 You know when I sit down and when I rise up; You understand my thought from afar. 3 You scrutinize my path and my lying down, And are intimately acquainted with...

I think you might try to read more carefully the passages I suggested to you. Instead of conforming the passages to your sequence, let them tell you what the case is concerning how one is saved. If you do, you'll see that much of what you divvy up here into steps is a single event accomplished...

Is the latter not the effect of the former? This is what God's word indicates. See John 3:3-8, Titus 3:5, Romans 8:9-13, etc.

Right.

Is it the sincerity of my faith, its fullness and depth, that persuades God to save me? If so, how is this not a kind of works-salvation? Remember the story of the doubting father with the possessed boy? He comes to Jesus for exorcism of the demon in his boy and says to Jesus, "I believe, help...

But without compulsion, God waiting on us to humble ourselves under the Truth of the Gospel, and in faith trust in Christ as Savior and Lord, by doing so putting ourselves in position to be saved by the Savior. Matthew 18:2-4 2 And Jesus called a little child unto him, and set him in the...

Well, I don't know that God "looks into the future" and informs Himself of what is to come. That isn't omniscience, that is God doing research and learning. Is God, God - is He an omniscient God, in particular - if He only knows the future once He's looked into and seen what will occur? That...