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Yes, I agree, God does not do the responding for the sinner, but He enables the sinner to believe. Again, I agree. We don't know who will be saved and who will not. We are to preach the gospel to all. It does end with something the natural man cannot do: "nor can he know them, because they...

Well, I cannot argue with an American on American politics. :)

Thanks. I always thought that the USA was democratic, in that it holds to government of the people by the people. I came across this at https://www.uscis.gov/sites/default/files/document/lesson-plans/Government_and_You_handouts.pdf "The United States is a representative democracy. This means...

No that is not what I am saying. What I mean is that unsaved sinners, in their sinful nature, have no desire to turn to God, to believe on the only Saviour from sin. These are spiritual truths which we are told the natural (unsaved) man cannot receive: “But the natural man does not receive...

I assumed that the "Georgia" in your "Well-known member from Georgia was the American state. I think most people think of the USA as a democracy. Perhaps you are from the Georgia formerly part of the USSR. As for getting elected into public office, that is surely up to the electorate.

Does it not include those for whom the public vote? Are you saying that in a democracy, Christians should seek to overthrow the elected Government, and dominate it themselves?

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Sorry, but how does Romans 3:1-12 prove that man has free will? The verses say: “There is none who understands; There is none who seeks after God. They have all turned aside; They have together become unprofitable; There is none who does good, no, not one.”” (Ro 3:11-12 NKJV)

The form of government makes no difference. If Christians in the New Testament, most of whom lived in part of the mighty Roman empire, were to pray for their leaders, and not make efforts to dominate and control them/their government, why should it be different for people who elect their...

Replying to my own post, because I'm too late to edit it. Of course it should have started: "Well, according to Genesis, the Flood killed all human beings apart from Noah, his wife, their three sons, and their wives." I haven't got a strange bible where Genesis teaches mass food poisoning!

Apparently it stands for "New Apostolic Reformation." There is more about it here: What is the New Apostolic Reformation (NAR)?

But being salt and light isn't anything to do with dominating and controlling governments. Jesus told the disciples that they were light and should be salt, but we do not read of them making efforts to dominate and control the government of their time and place.

Well, according to Genesis, the Food killed all human beings apart from Noah, his wife, their three sons, and their wives. That being so, we are all descendants of Noah, whether we are Jews or Gentiles.

I know Christians are taught in the bible to pray for their leaders, but I cannot think of a Scripture passage that teaches us that Christians have to dominate and control their governments. Have you got any bible passages in mind for the idea that Christs are to dominate and control earthly...

Yet when God had finished creating, He described everything He had made, including man, as "very good." So I don't understand how you can say that Adam and God were not at first in the relationship they had in the Garden. I may well have misunderstood something in your post. If so, I apologise.

How can it be fixed, short of changing modern English to have two different pronouns for second person singular and second person plural? Possibly by printing the plural as "YOU" and the singular as "you," rather in the way that some translations have "LORD" and Lord".

Yes, man does. But in the context of how one pronounces divine names, then unless one is pronouncing a name in such a way that it is not understood by our human hearers, I fail to see how man looking at the outward appearance applies to the subject under discussion. Sorry.

For all I know, there might be people who use Calvinism to judge the bible. Those Calvinists that I know seek to judge what they believe by what the bible says. You only have to look at the Calvinistic confessions of faith, such as the Westminster Confession, and the 1689 London Baptist...

I agree. God looks at the heart.

No, he sometimes writes things about unsaved people in the letter, but the letter is addressed to Christian believers.