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God made a way for all men to escape their sin. Salvation is an individual experience for all of us. In the end it's not sin that condemns a person, it's the fact that his name is not written in the Book of Life that he is sentenced to the Lake of Fire. His sins were never forgiven by Grace...

The divide between salvation and damnation is the Cross of Christ. All sins can be forgiven accept the blasphemy of the Holy Spirit. The questions is, "what did they do with Christ?" The entire world will be judged on that question.

I've always read from cover to cover, when I get to end cover I start all over again. I'm always finding something in my regular reading that I want a better understanding, so I have many short studies I undergo pulling out commentaries of various theologians to gather the better...

Ok, BF, your heart is closed to what we are trying to point out. The rest is in the hands of God. But I can't help but like you, you've always been thoughtful and considerate through the years. I wish you the best my friend, but I have to let go of all this. May the Lord bless you and kept...

Yes, and her heart was open to God, as the Scripture says of her, "14, which worshipped God." Her heart was with God and He opened her heart to Christ that she might be saved. Her worshipping God was not enough, she needed Christ and she on the spot believed.

@atpollard Paul said, "it is with the heart that man believes unto righteousness..." Man can hear the Gospel all the day long, but if his heart is set in his own lusts he cannot hear from the heart to be saved. The hearing of the Gospel is of none effect to him.

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...