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That's the difference in hearing with the ear and hearing with the heart. Those "atheists and heretics" have heard with the ears but have already made the decision they don't want Christ. They cannot hear from the heart just as the Pharisee's could not hear, they have already made that choice.

That's the Calvinist Handbook you're falling back on, BF. They could not hear because they were of their father Satan. They had already chosen what they would believe in their own lusts, and Christ was not what they wanted.

You've been shown what it means, but you yourself cannot hear. You have chosen to ignore everything we have shown you.

This is why they or anyone for that matter cannot hear Him, BF. They chose not t believe Him, the loved their way, the Devil's way, not God's way. John 8:43-45 "Why do ye not understand my speech? even because ye cannot hear my word. Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your...

Hearing has a two-fold meaning, BF. We can hear through the ears and through the heart. The Scripture says that the heart of man is desperately wicked, who can know it? The Holy Spirit can know it and He goes through the ears of man to his heart. He reveals to man his true heart and man...

David's life was written in the Bible, along with many others. The good, the bad, and the ugly. For thousands of years generation after generation has read the life of these people. Would you like to have been one of these people?

It's in the message that comes from the Word of God. Remember that "faith comes from hearing the Word of God," right? Another example. When Paul and Silas were locked fast in the stocks in a Philippian jail, they were praying and singing hymns praising the Lord. The jailer no doubt had heard...

In Acts 2 Peter preached a message to the people that Jesus Christ is both Lord and Christ (the Messiah). Peter charged them, "God has made that same Jesus whom you have crucified both Lord and Christ." When they heard this "they were pricked to the heart" and asked "what shall we do?" How...

There are Calvinists right here on BB that will tell you the Atonement made salvation possible! They will say it was sufficient for all of mankind, but only the Elect are chosen for it by predestination. Of course that's where I would disagree. The traditional Calvinists disagree with you, BF.

The Spirit confirms the truth of Scripture when it's heard. If your heart is open to His truth and not your own. Even Calvin would tell you there could be no salvation without the Atonement, seeing we all were separated from God by sin. If you can't see that through the Atonement Christ...

Rom. 5:10 "For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life." Man was the enemy of God before the Atonement of Christ. Through the Atonement Christ has taken the place of man in his sin, we are now...

BF, God gives the faith to believe, but He can't unless man when he hears the Gospel admits he is a sinner in his heart and needs a Savior. The Calvinists believe we are saving ourselves and we have something to boast about, when in reality we are responding to the conviction of the Holy...

I'm concerned with post #107.

I don't know where you stand with Calvin, BF, but he believed a person came to faith at some point in their life by hearing and believing the Gospel. The same way I came to faith. That is not what you are expressing. You are expressing a God-given faith before even hearing the Gospel. That's...

I'm worried for you, BF. It seems you are depending, your faith being in God automatically giving you salvation by the election of salvation, whereas I came to faith by believing the Gospel to salvation. Do you see the difference? Your misunderstanding is that the Atonement automatically saved...

It's Hyper-Calvinism, taking Calvin's theory to the extremes.

It's only by faith in what Christ has done for us, believing in His death, burial and resurrection to save us from our sins, that we are made free from the condemnation of the Law of Sin and death. Believing you are one of the elect is not going to cut it with God, your faith must be in His...

Rom. 8:2 "For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death."

Whereby one mans sin entered the world, all have sinned. The Law of Sin and Death condemned all of us to eternal separation from God. Only through the Atonement was it possible for man to be saved. I hope your faith is in that Atonement for mankind and not in your election.

BF, everyone of us has a choice to believe Christ and leave behind the ways of this world (losing his life for Christ), or put off Christ and continue in this world as we see fit (losing out on eternal life). We all will make that choice, there is no way to avoid it.