You put your marbles in man...I'll take Scripture.
I suppose that makes you feel very pious and good about yourself. However, it actually displays a tremendous amount of haphazard arrogance.
Obviously Scripture is the only authority. No one has argued that on Baptist board any more fiercely than myself in the past 6 months.
But where your arrogance keeps you in the dark is this:
You see that well nigh every great hero of the Christian faith in the past 500 years has been Calvinistic. Rather than humbly saying, "You know, I better approach this thing cautiously since it is great presumption on my part to go against so many who are so much more brilliant than myself and have had the hand of God rest on them and their ministries in such a mightier way than I could even dream of," you just kick the greats to the curb as if they are not greater men than yourself.
That is arrogance.
Especially when you haphazardly call men like JONATHAN EDWARDS a man without the bounds of Christian orthodoxy.
That is utter MADNESS!!
You don't have to agree with the vast majority of the greats- but for you to haphazardly dismiss them the way you do proves a great deal about why you are still in the dark on this matter.
I just showed you we pass from death to life WITH CHRIST. NOT PRIOR...WITH. THAT is Scripture.
You didn't show anything. I told you what that is about. If you don't like it- that's your business.
It has everything to do with the text! You added to Scripture. It says we are made alive TOGETHER WITH Christ. Passing from spiritual death to spiritual life is what regeneration is. This nonsense a resurrection is needed to be made alive is silly and renders Christ powerless over death.
Yes, and I showed you that the resurrection is what makes regeneration possible so everyone who is regenerated is regenerated by, with, of, through (and every other preposition) Christ. That does not have a thing to do with faith needing to exist for Christ to raise someone from the dead.
The very thought that otherwise is the case is utter folly.