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"desires that all sinners repent", but "wills only the elect"? And Scripture for this? This does not sound like the God of the Bible, "Who will that all men are saved...and that none perish...", meaning of course in their plain description, the salvation of the "entire human race". John Calvin...

Ah, but you should have quoted from the start of the chapter, "At Caesarea there was a man named Cornelius, a centurion of what was known as the Italian Cohort, a devout man who feared God with all his household, gave alms generously to the people, and prayed continually to God". He was clearly...

Look, what I said is that in none of the Scriptures that you have provided, show any evidence that "works" are required in order a person to be saved. Can you specify exactly what "works" a sinner is required to do, so that this may "merit" their salvation? And provide some Bible texts to back...

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"Good works" are required of the saved after they are saved, and not something that they can "merit" towards their being saved.

The Bible references you give at #24, refer to after and not before conversion.

this is what Calvinists in England have told me!

Yes, the Bible says that all sinners must DO something before they can get saved. Read very carefully "Now when they heard this they were cut to the heart, and said to Peter and the rest of the apostles, “Brothers, what shall we DO?...And Peter said to them, “Repent and be baptized every one of...

1 John 5:21, "Little children, keep yourselves from idols." We ONLY need Jesus Christ! John 14:6!

I think that my question has not been read or answered correctly, as I was clearly talking about "for salvation". Just why can't people be straightforward? :(

My question to redneck was: "Do you believe that "good works" are a requirement FOR the salvation of sinners? Simple yes or no", to which he answered "ABSOLUTELY YES!... for temporal deliverance in this realm. Stop doing good and start doing evil and see what happens to you.". Do you also say...

saying exactly what?

ABSOLUTELY NO!!! "And if by grace, then it cannot be based on works; if it were, grace would no longer be grace." (Romans 11:6)

Not really, see Jonah 3:10, where we read the Lord saw the "works" of the people of Nineveh, because they REPENTED from their sins. Not a "work" of "merit", but one of "contrition"!

why should this puzzle you? The sinner is convicted by the Holy Spirit, they seek God in prayer as to what to to, and God sends them some to tell them exactly what they need to do for their salvation.

Do you believe that "good works" are a requirement FOR the salvation of sinners? Simple yes or no

What of Romans 3:20? "For by works of the law no human being will be justified in His sight, since through the law comes knowledge of sin."

We must remember that all that was said and done in Chapter 10 is not recorded. We can be sure, however, that as the Jews had to "repent from their sins and believe in the Lord Jesus Christ" for their salvation, that the Gentiles would be required the same.

11:17 reads, "God gave them the like gift as he did unto us, who believed on the Lord Jesus Christ". Verse 18, "Then hath God also to the Gentiles granted repentance unto life.". "like", "also", shows that the Gentile conversions were LIKE their own. As the Jews "believed and repented", so did...

I speak of works FOR salvation and not those required AFTER