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Blanket accusations about perceptions of others serve no purpose but to inflame and derail. If you have a specific instance, with a quote and a reasoned argument, bring it. Then I'll have something with which to engage, but this is a nebulous unfounded accusation. A "Straw-man" is logical...

I was just about to quote this exact same verse. Notice Jesus CLEARLY states, "you believe because you have seen me." Why does he believe? Because of an inward work of irresistible regeneration or because he saw Him? Jesus answered that question. So, now you are speculating that God caused...

I'm sitting right here P4T, you can ask me. :) The OP makes no such claim. Let's recap: 1. I simply restated Aaron's view concerning "belief not being a choice" and then followed it with a very simple question regarding Thomas apparent choice to "not believe until he saw." 2. You requested...

Can I take that as a statement of agreement with the question I posed...that Thomas (and some of the others) chose not to believe UNTIL they saw? How is that possible considering that belief is a "state of being" and not a choice? How can they say, "I will not believe it until I see it," if...

Old vs New; spirit vs flesh are not the false dichotomies, Aaron. Please listen. A false dichotomy is insisting that one answer or the other must be true and the question you are asking implies that the natural man is acting WITHOUT the involvement of the Spirit in any way, which IS NOT OUR...

You took the words out of my mouth. :applause:

Like it was explained to you; You set up false dichotomies and dismiss our actual points of contention as "peripheral issues." After someone hears the gospel they are affected. They may not yet be made alive or made new, but they have been given what is needed to respond in faith, so they are...

These are a few of the quotes, from Aaron, to which I was referring. P4T, in reply to one of these quotes you replied saying, "Nail on head." But, now am I understanding that you all disagree with Aaron and you do believe that it is possible for someone to choose to believe or not believe...

Yeah, that is his backup, remember: "I tell you, if they were to keep silent, the stones would cry out!" So, I guess we could say that "Calvinism" is God's backup plan if the Arminian plan fails due to free will. :laugh:

As stated, nothing but the topic of the OP is to be discussed in this thread.

Sure. Maybe we could start with answering the question of the OP and go from there? :)

Tell me about it. In the other thread someone started attacking me for believing the premise that man initiates salvation, something I have vehemently taught against over and over again. The really strange thing was that wasn't even the subject of the thread or something I had even said...

We all know the story of "Doubting Thomas." So, here is my question: Some claim that it is NOT possible for someone to choose to believe or not believe in Christ, but didn't Thomas choose to NOT BELIEVE until he saw Christ with his own eyes? NOTE: If you have a comment about how you feel...

Who said God's will and man's will are on equal terms? Why don't you all just stick with responding to what I actually say rather than making up new concepts and attacking them?

But the worse case scenario is that it's only because God causally determined me to be wrong. :)

He didn't blind you or have you get swallowed by a fish? Weird. :laugh:

In some sense that might be the case, but not in every sense. I think John Piper expresses a tendency that is pretty common among some Reformed folks...

DHK, where is the work of the Holy Spirit!!! Don't you know you have to give credit to the Holy Spirit?!?!! And don't tell me it was the gospel. The Holy Spirit only breathed that into existence, inspired authors to preach and write it, carried it through the Bride of Christ, preserved it...

You mean the parts where I quote what you said and soundly rebut your words...yeah I'd leave that alone too if I were you. Next time you have an accusation be willing to support it. I agree. It stopped being so when you turned the subject onto me and my motives rather than the subject at hand...

Or can they? Maybe the Hindu nirvana fairy has to give them the faith to believe that? ;)