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I see a lot of verbiage, but apparently of the double talk variety. The issue is not the "light" brought by God to humanity, the issue is whether or not lost humanity is able to receive it and respond such that God saves them without being enabled by supernatural alteration. I say the lost are...

Greetings Van. I'm back from my wedding anniversary weekend. Made some good memories. I hope your weekend was a blessed one. To be more precise, at least in what I think the Bible teaches, I do think that God has made the first move through His Cosmic Triumph of the Powers of Darkness and...

I see punishment as something that is a result of God's willingness to show His wrath, and to make His power known to men. To me, they are not one and the same. I also see that His wrath is expressed as a result of what offends Him. Since He is holy and since everything that He does is...

The cross was a torture device used for capital punishment in ancient times. After the Lord Jesus, who was free from sin, sacrificed Himself as a sin offering and was crucified for mankind, the cross came to symbolize the Lord Jesus’s redemptive grace. When we receive His salvation and come...

All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: 2 Timothy 3:16 If you think something is not being addressed, Then posts scriptures that reproves, corrects any omissions you claim that I am doing. The...

ibid; "For the elect's sake those days shall be shortened" (Matthew 24.), and ibid, "If it were possible, they should deceive the very elect," where, it is plain, Christ teaches two things: "Come, ye blessed of My Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world"...

Yes, that explanation can be found, but I believe it is bogus. I think it is obvious righteousness does not come from believing. Demons believe yet are not righteous. Soils 2 and 3 of Matthew 13 believed but were not made righteous. Let's examine Romans 10:10: For with (or by) the heart one...

Paul said "with the heart man believes unto righteousness." I think it obvious that righteousness comes from believing. Then Paul also said that "Abraham believed God and He counted it to him for righteousness." If we put this together from Paul we can see that God grants righteousness...

That's part of it. Then there's the rest, Charlie: " Why do ye not understand my speech? [even] because ye cannot hear my word. 44 Ye are of [your] father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no...

Absolutely not, Dave G! All of us came to Christ through the hearing of the Gospel, no exceptions! They could not hear the words of Christ because they loved the things of the world, the things of Satan, the reason Christ told them Satan was their father, and that they would do the things of...

"Hearing" means "understanding", Charlie. Have you not read what the Lord Jesus has said regarding this subject? " And if ye will receive [it], this is Elias, which was for to come. 15 He that hath ears to hear, let him hear." ( Matthew 11:14 ). " Who hath ears to hear, let him hear." (...

Amen. "Born." "From Above." Yep, apparently that is what you believe, but Paul never did and still doesn't in Heaven now. Don't know where you come off thinking your statements are always the Mind of God. Nobody said anything like that. Your denial of the Bible teaching of Total Depravity...

Now I'll give my understanding of it line by line so you can see how I'm reading it: 6) God sent John the Baptist to preach to Israel. He was the last of the Old Testament prophets, which we are told in other places ( including the next verse ) that he was sent to prepare the way for Jesus...

Dave, Regardless of where the New Testament begins ( which you've identified in post #2 and I agree with ), each and every "natural" statement pertaining to God's children is unilaterally true no matter which time period they come from. For example, beginning in Matthew 5, I clearly see a list...

How many "degrees of free will" are you aware of? What is your knowledge of such degrees based on? (Luk 22:42 KJV) Saying, Father, if thou be willing, remove this cup from me: nevertheless not my will, but thine, be done. Jesus is my example of dealing with my will. He subjected His will to...

Do you believe the saved and the unsaved have freewill?

First, I don't pretend to be an Arminian. See here for a brief summary of why I would rather go with Provisionism than Arminianism. "Total inability" consequential to the fall is surely not made out. Even Able, son of Adam put that fallacy to bed. Humanity didn't all become Cainites subsequent...

Hey Brother. God gave the Law through Moses. God said it applied specifically to the Hebrews at that time (not to their forefathers) and to their descendants. The Law was a covenant between God and Israel. The Jews could not fulfill the requirements of the Law, therefore the Law served as...

@Ben1445 Greetings JonC. Forgive me again for coming into your conversation with another. I have heard, and think I understand most of your complaints about the Penal Substitution Theory (some of them I agree with). In general, we agree that the Penal Sub theory ignores the Cosmic Triumph of...

These are those of whom GOD is the Father:->John 1:12-13 13 Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of GOD. -> the Creator. ->Isaiah 64:8 and John 1:11. 14 And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld His glory, the glory as of...