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Should People Ask Jesus Christ Into Their Lives???

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Silverhair

Silverhair

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atpollard said:
  • proving that God uses MEANS (which no Particular Baptist denies).
  • a monergistic work of God ... the EXACT SAME message was heard by others who were not pierced. In the case of Lydia, scripture EXPLICITLY stated that GOD OPENED HER HEART to receive the word. It could not be worded any clearer than it is.

  • You are omitting the "first cause" of their belief ... God DREW ... God OPENED THEIR HEART.
  • John 3:3 ... without God's "first cause" men remain blind ... they cannot "see" the gospel to believe. [2 Corinthians 4:3-4]
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Have not said God does not draw or convict. Where you have lost it is when you say {calvinists} that He only draws certain people to the exclusion of all others.
 
Silverhair

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Reformed1689 said:
LOL the only way to read Romans 9 any other way is with some MAJOR gymnastics in the exegetical area resulting in false and wrong interpretation. I wasn't not always a Calvinist sir.
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You are right in that calvinists have to use some MAJOR gymnastics in the exegetical area resulting in false and wrong interpretation.
 
Reformed1689

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Silverhair said:
Have not said God does not draw or convict. Where you have lost it is when you say {calvinists} that He only draws certain people to the exclusion of all others.
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Except that is what Scripture states, in fact, that is what Jesus stated. (John 6:37, 44, 65, 10:29)
 
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