and why again does it take regeneration to believe the implications of what you posted?
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Preventing God's Will
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It's NOT a legitimate question. Why does one person believe this vs. Another believe that. That I will never be able to answer in totality. One Believed and the Other didn't.
God saved me, I didn't save myself. Quit playing with semantics.God does not need salvation. You did.
Philippians 1:19 For I know that this shall turn to my salvation through your prayer, and the supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ,
Philippians 2:12 Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.
Romans 13:11 And that, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed.
Exactly! First God's regenerating Grace, then we believe, repent, and obey.
Yes, I do, and am heartened to see that now you do too!
I did not say nor imply otherwise.
I am not. It was YOU who responded to my statement:
"So your salvation is based on YOUR faith and YOUR yielding" by saying "First, it's not my salvation, It's God's."
I pointed out where the Scriptures say it is our salvation.
So, it would seem the only one playing semantics is you.
Exactly! Your theology is too deficient to be able to answer the question.
Why did "one believe and the other didn't?"
It's a mystery.
Because the unsaved person doesn’t accept the things of God’s Spirit, because they are foolish to him, and he can’t understand them, because they are spiritually discerned.
Not to me. Only to an Arminian. I can answer the question.
I did not say nor imply otherwise.
I am not. It was YOU who responded to my statement:
"So your salvation is based on YOUR faith and YOUR yielding" by saying "First, it's not my salvation, It's God's."
I pointed out where the Scriptures say it is our salvation.
So, it would seem the only one playing semantics is you.
You may answer it, that doesn't make you CorrectNot to me. Only to an Arminian. I can answer the question.
Definitely a mystery of the heart...that only GOD would see.
So unsaved people can't believe, reason, yield their will...OK man.
You must deny a lot of Scripture to develop your theological framework. [Edited: Insult]
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Uh, you are aware, are you not, that what I posted, and what you disagreed with, is a direct quote from 1st Corinthians chapter 2?
As I answer it with a verse of scripture, it makes God correct.
Not to me. Only to an Arminian. I can answer the question.
I'm not an Arminian. The answer to the question is "because God did not open that person's eyes to the saving power of the gospel."
"It's a mystery" is the go-to cop out answer that Calvinists give when they can't answer a question. I just thought I'd throw it out there for TCassidy.
Ah I gotcha. I just assumed we were talking about a person's thought process...which is something I can not discern. Judging motives in next to impossible.
God is correct regardless of what you say. You proof texting Scripture does not make YOU OR your theology Correct, however.As I answer it with a verse of scripture, it makes God correct.
Which is why I avoid proof-texting.
Totally aware. The burden of proof is on you to explain that that Scripture is speaking about conversion, which it is not.
I didn't say you were.
Exactly! But WHY does God open some eyes and not others?