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If the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, how can they be illuminated at all?

Do you think God cares more about His glory than about people's souls? Not accepting someone is the same as rejecting them. These things are synonymous.

In the Bible, eternal life is called not only the gift but also free gift. If it is costly, as taught by Lordship Salvation, then the Bible is not the Word of God. If it is free, then it costs nothing. If it costs nothing, good works are not necessary to obtain it. If belief happens before...

I'm not sure if hungering and thirsting after righteousness is required for obtaining salvation. Hopefully, a free grace believer can help my understanding.

If man has no capacity to receive the gift of eternal life, then any offer of that gift is not genuine.

God did not accept them, not drawing them, according to your view. Therefore, according to your view, He rejected them.

Because being filled with righteousness implies that you are not sinning. So if someone uses this passage as one on how to get saved, in the Lordship view sense, they are agreeing with sinless perfection.

Are you saying that God pretends to draw people?

When are they filled?

Are not the lost condemned for not believing, who are supposedly not able to believe because God, supposedly, rejected them?

If there is a sin for which one cannot be forgiven, then Christ did not die for their sins, because if He did, that sin would be included. Moreover, people are not condemned for any sin that they do, but because they have never believed on Christ. Also, if faith is obedience, why is it...

I think it means that no sin is unforgiven for the audience of Hebrews, and for believers, since they are justified "from all things", "from which", "they could not be justified by the Law of Moses". I think it means that they are justified from all things not contained in the Law of Moses.

Partially filled or completely filled?

I know that Jesus Christ the person is the Savior of sinful people, the reason I was concerned with the issue at hand.

For a while now, I believed that faith that we have eternal life because we believe in Christ was sufficient to save us, but now I've gone back to the view that certain doctrines are essential for belief to salvation, such as the fact that Jesus is Jehovah, his death for our sins, and his being...

According to Hebrews, there is forgiveness for breaking the Law of Moses. Why, in this passage, is there given no reference to the whole Law of God?

If salvation is not by faith alone, then the Bible proclaims a works based system just like any other religion, and does not stand out for consideration as being the Word of God. Even Christ's death on the cross would mean nothing, as we would have to attain salvation by our own works, which...

Whereas not many months ago, I bought a book on New Testament Greek, intending to learn the whole language for study of the New Testament, at the time I had received it, I could not even persevere long enough to learn the entire alphabet; but I believed learning the Greek alphabet to be the most...

Numerous verses in the Bible bear witness to the courtesy of the gift of eternal life, received apart from trust in works by faith in Jesus Christ, and by means of works unable to be lost.

KenH merely quoted a commentary, not demonstrating from scripture the truthfulness of his point, nor from any dictionary the harmony of the text and his doctrine.