Featured doctrines of grace ?

No, just that before you bash it, please learn what we realy mean by the terms!

 

NO calvinist would see the unsaved/falln as devodi of physical life, just spiritual life, bu tall Christians agree on that!

 

My understanding is that when God saves one of His own, He enables us to be able to now come to Christ, as the Spirit "disarms" the sin nature enoug to grant us that ability!

 

I take it step furter, as He also enables me to have the will needed and the mind/heart needed to receive with joy the good news!

 

Which means unbelievers have yet to be revealed the truth. It also means their rejection is valid seeing the truth has not been revealed to them. Is it their fault that they reject it? And is it really rejection?

 

I'm trying to follow through your statement below. Not sure if its me or you are contradicting yourself.

Here;

If one cannot but believe what is revealed as being true, then the ones who don't believe have yet to receive revelation, else they'd have long believed,right?

And if they have yet to receive revelation, they can't be condemned for rejecting it


So a sinner on judgement day charged with rejecting revelation can in his defense claim he did not receive none. He has an 'excuse'. Am I making sense, or am I misrepresenting your statement?

 

Thank you for clarification.

Permit me to probe further. There is either rejection or acceptance of general revelation. Rejecting it damns.

What about accepting it? Is the Totally Depraved soul capable of accepting it? And if he does,would it save, or is it sufficient to deliver him from condemnation, or must it be complemented by particular revelation (Gospel)?

I ask because very few pre-calvary knew about the Gospel,and post-calvary, many, in fact majority still perish minus particular revelation of the gospel meaning all they possess is the general revelation.

Sorry if I'm digressing, please let me know.

Ok.
Before the Gospel, man is already condemned, general revelation notwithstanding.

I take it in the above excerpt of your post you mean(t) that recipients of particular revelation (gospel) as opposed to general revelation, cannot but believe it,right?

 

Recall you mentioned transformation that makes our drawing certain, and before which we were enemies of God opposed to Him. What exactly is transformed, and is it the sinner's will/wish for this transformation?

I'm sorry but the analogy is flawed. You spoke of God inducing transformation not revelation(new information).

Even on this belief, we still go back to why the power of God unto salvation is not effectual in some.

All of us are objects of wrath,enemies of God then suddenly (or gradually) some want nothing but God while the rest remain enemies. What happened?

They did not hear and believe words...they received power of God. So the rest didn't. Their hitherto rebellious will now turn to God. Their wills are subdued,overridden, all options but one are removed, they can't but follow Christ

 

Nature shows to all of us that there is a God, who is powerful and a Creator, but it still takes the special revlation of God in Christ via the Holy Spirit in order to hae a sinner become now a saint!

 

Sinners will not accept Jesus apart from the work of the Holy Spiit to grant them ears to hear/eyes to see Christ!
All who are lost have chosen to reject the offer of God freely...

 

I do not totally agree with this because I believe people can suppress the truth

Both Spiritual and natural truth. I do believe humbling oneself to Truth is exactly why Christ says "believe" as the response to the Gospel. You must surrender your will to the Truth being spoken and agree with it. There is no room for pride when someone believes that we are sinners in desperate need of a Savior, and we can do nothing to save ourselves.

 

That is thework of the Holy Spiri, to show to us we are sinners, needng Jesus, and He enables us to receive Him thru faith.

 

Right, and Truth can be Suppressed, as opposed to embraced

 

Total Depravity means as bad as could be. That's why they use the word "TOTAL"?

Maybe you just believe in Partial Depravity?


If God "let go" we would all be dead in seconds. I could put some vids of James White telling us this.

We can hear from others;
"Our rebellion against God is total." -Piper
"In his total rebellion everything man does is sin."-Piper
"Man's inability to submit to God and do good is total."- piper

"We declare on scriptural authority that the human will is so desperately set on mischief, so depraved, so inclined to everything that is evil, and so disinclined to everything that is good, that without the powerful, supernatural, irresistible influence of the Holy Spirit, no human will will ever be constrained toward Christ.” -- Spurgeon

"The Bible teaches the total depravity of the human race. Total depravity means radical corruption. We must be careful to note the difference between total depravity and "utter" depravity. To be utterly depraved is to be as wicked as one could possibly be. Hitler was extremely depraved, but he could have been worse than he was. I am sinner. Yet I could sin more often and more severely than I actually do. I am not utterly depraved, but I am totally depraved. For total depravity means that I and everyone else are
depraved or corrupt in the totality of our being. There is no part of us that is left untouched by sin. Our minds, our wills, and our bodies are affected by evil. We speak sinful words, do sinful deeds, have impure thoughts. Our very bodies suffer from the ravages of sin." -Sproul



You might be trying to say what Sproul is saying.

But really post God's current grace.


Find someone totally separated from God and its guaranteed "utterly" evil let alone totally.

And then there is preconceived ideas what evil course vs "intelligent" evil course.

For example the Devil isn't suicidal and apathetic. He still "cares" to have a beef with God.

Even a sadist is well too "entertained" by existence.

A lot of evil if not all is just immaturity.