- IF coming to God good? If so, since there is none that does good, doesn't that mean that there is none that come to God?
Since there is no good that means that all who come are in need of Jesus ans they are far from righteous. Even the demons know who Jesus is. Just because someone is not righteous not mean that keeps them from coming to Christ at the urging of the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit does the convicting of sin, righteousness and judgment and the person has the choice to respond.
Jn 16:7-11, "But I tell you the truth, it is to your advantage that I go away; for if I do not go away, the Helper will not come to you; but if I go, I will send Him to you. "And He, when He comes, will convict the world concerning sin and righteousness and judgment; concerning sin, because they do not believe in Me; and concerning righteousness, because I go to the Father and you no longer see Me; and concerning judgment, because the ruler of this world has been judged."
- Do you actually believe that Jesus was saying the father is spiritually mature?
- Isn't that the meaning of teleios? It is an adjective which means complete, the Hebrew idea of perfection--maturity, blameless, unblemished, blameless, being fully developed in a moral sense.
Gene 6:9 These are the records of the generations of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, blameless in his time; Noah walked with God.
Exod 12:5 `Your lamb shall be an unblemished male a year old; you may take it from the sheep or from the goats.
Deut 18:13 "You shall be blameless before the Lord your God.
Matt 5:48 "Therefore you are to be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect.
Matt 19:21 Jesus said to him, "If you wish to be complete, go and sell your possessions and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow Me."
Roma 12:2 And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what the will of God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect.
1Cor 2:6 Yet we do speak wisdom among those who are mature; a wisdom, however, not of this age nor of the rulers of this age, who are passing away;
1Cor 13:10 but when the perfect comes, the partial will be done away.
1Cor 14:20 Brethren, do not be children in your thinking; yet in evil be infants, but in your thinking be mature.
Ephe 4:13 until we all attain to the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a mature man, to the measure of the stature which belongs to the fullness of Christ.
Phil 3:15 Let us therefore, as many as are perfect, have this attitude; and if in anything you have a different attitude, God will reveal that also to you;
Colo 1:28 We proclaim Him, admonishing every man and teaching every man with all wisdom, so that we may present every man complete in Christ.
Colo 4:12 Epaphras, who is one of your number, a bondslave of Jesus Christ, sends you his greetings, always laboring earnestly for you in his prayers, that you may stand perfect and fully assured in all the will of God.
Hebr 5:14 But solid food is for the mature, who because of practice have their senses trained to discern good and evil.
Hebr 9:11 But when Christ appeared as a high priest of the good things to come, He entered through the greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this creation;
Jame 1:4 And let endurance have its perfect result, so that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.
Jame 1:17 Every good thing given and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shifting shadow.
Jame 1:25 But one who looks intently at the perfect law, the law of liberty, and abides by it, not having become a forgetful hearer but an effectual doer, this man will be blessed in what he does.
Jame 3:2 For we all stumble in many ways. If anyone does not stumble in what he says, he is a perfect man, able to bridle the whole body as well.
- Is being blind a choice?
If you answer, please use Scripture rather than simply offering your own opinion.
Not physically blindness but spiritual blindness is. If one would say not, then babies are spiritually blind and doomed to hell.
If one is without excuse in Romans one then that would seem to leave a choice, otherwise if there is no choice then there would be no issue and no need for any commands and exhortations in scripture.
If one lives a homosexual lifestyle and then leaves that lifestyle that it is going from sinfulness to living a life of godliness and that would be two opposing choices. That is unless you believe homosexuality is not a choice and you are born into it and doomed to its consequences.
