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I invite you to cite the passage in Romans 3 or Ephesians 2 that says "No one is able to believe. Thus, God must make one alive before they can believe." Maybe your Bible is different than mine, since mine says no such thing.

Romans 3 says no such thing, nor does Ephesians 2. Whosoever is not limited by any adjective in John 3. Scripture says no such thing. It's the other way around. Excellent passage. Those who respond to the shepherd's voice are Christ's sheep and they follow Him, and they will never perish...

You're making my point for me, talking about status after salvation instead of the "method of salvation." Nice job, thanks.

Please clarify. Your argument seems to consist entirely of personal attack. Is that all you've got?

(a) Acts 1:19 is pretty compelling, and it's the Bible. (b) To repeat yet again, why assign significance to this when Scripture doesn't? Where's the applicational value?

If you can't tell the difference between what pertains "in Christ" and what pertains prior to salvation, I'm sure there's little I can say to help you.

Again, if Scripture does not assign weight to this possibility I'm not convinced that we should.

Read verse 27. Past tense.

May I suggest that if this were important Scripture would give us a clear answer.

Tuilagi? My name means something, try not to butcher it. Attention to detail is the key to understanding, especially when it comes to scriptural truth. Galatians 3:28 is not talking about the "method" of salvation, it is talking about what pertains after salvation.

Why do you have to emend Scripture to make your point? Because you are reading your theology into this verse instead of letting the Word of God speak for itself. This verse says precisely nothing about being "enabled to believe." Everyone is able to believe, John 3:16.

Propitiation is not appropriated by faith, but the other aspects of Christ's work (such as redemption) are. I invite you to show otherwise from Scripture. Everyone is enabled to believe, but very many choose not to do so. I refer you to Romans 1:19-21.

It seems you think that Abraham could be the "friend of God" (2 Chronicles 20:7; Isaiah 41:8; James 2:23) and David could be a "man after God's own heart" (1 Sam 13:14; Acts 13:22) and that of men born of woman there was none greater than John the Baptist (Matthew 11:11, Luke 7:28) without any...

No. Propitiation by itself is not enough, which is why God can credit Christ's propitiation to the whole world (1 John 2:2) and yet the whole world is not saved.

It is totally sufficient as payment for sin; but it is absolutely insufficient by itself for salvation, since there is far more that separates fallen mankind from God than the sin penalty alone. This is why it is important to understand the manifold work of Christ as expressed in atonement...

Confusion is understandable, and indeed inevitable, if you jump forward to post-Pentecost scriptures and then try to read them back into the OT and Gospels. Israel is not the church, the church is not Israel; Israel is not "in Christ," and the church is not under the law. We have a new covenant...

So you believe in salvation by "continual endeavor"? Changing the translation hardly solves the problem with your view. Endeavor is not faith, and Jesus nowhere offers Himself as an object for salvation faith in this context.

The issue is, did Jesus say many seek salvation in Luke 13:24, the verse you cite as a refutation of "bogus doctrine." The answer is NO, Jesus did NOT say many seek salvation in Luke 13:24. Whatever the merits of your position on the ability of unregenerate people to come to saving faith, this...

Jesus can't be talking about seeking salvation in Luke 13:24 because salvation does not require a constant struggle. I have clearly and repeatedly made this point, and you have clearly and repeatedly failed to address it.

I don't know what game you think is being played. I do know you can't seem to answer my simple question about Jesus' use of the present imperative in Luke 13:24. I'm pretty sure you can't explain it because your interpretation inevitably forces the conclusion of salvation by works. Your...