Soteriology 101

No matter, if your interpretation is not "no one ever seeks God" then why object to no one seeks God while sinning? And note the reference to other passages, undefined. This is all they have, absurdity followed by falsehood.

Our faith is based on God's revelatory grace, but God crediting our faith as righteousness is a pure gift of grace. (Romans 4:23-24)

Rom 4:23-24
Now not for his [Abraham's] sake only was it written [God's revelation] that it was credited to him, but for our sake also, to whom it will be credited, to us who believe in Him who raised Jesus our Lord from the dead,

Think about this folks, how did we benefit by having our faith credited as righteousness if we are unable to seek God and trust Christ? Every time you see "through faith" in scripture, think "therefore Calvinism is wrong."

 

I do not put in no one ever seeks God because THAT IS NOT WHAT IT SAYS.

 

The added words interpret the open ended ambiguous phrase, just as Calvinism interprets the phrase by adding the qualification ever or at any time. For you to continue to pretend your interpretation is the only one possible demonstrates the use of absurdity in defense of falsehood, but I suspect you already knew that...

 

Neither Isaiah nor Paul state none seek God at any time. But it is clear none seek God at all times, thus we are all under sin.

In order to sustain the fiction that no one ever seeks God, several verses must be rewritten.

Psalm 24:6
Such is the generation of those who seek him,
who seek the face of the God of Jacob. Selah

Isaiah 65:1
“I permitted Myself to be sought by those who did not ask for Me;
I permitted Myself to be found by those who did not seek Me.
I said, ‘Here am I, here am I,’
To a nation which did not call on My name.

 

Nice touch, in sin! Of course all in Adam were made sinners and therefore are in a sinful state, separated from God. But we are by grace saved through or by reason of faith. Calvinism claims we were not saved through faith but saved then given faith. So Calvinists must redefine as liberals every place scripture indicated we were saved through or by reason of faith. Go figure

 

Faith alone refers to faithful faith, the faith from which faithfulness flows, or using James illustration, live faith not dead faith. Thus actual faith, of the kind God might choose to credit as righteousness, includes a commitment to stop going our own way and to strive to follow Christ upon the paths of righteousness. (1 Peter 2:21)

1 Peter 2:21
For you have been called for this purpose [suffer for doing right] because Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example, so that you would follow in His steps,

We were called (placed into Christ spiritually) for the purpose of faithful service. Thus both repentance and belief in God and His Christ are components of the faith God credits as righteousness. Easy Believism is false doctrine. If our faith lacks the commitment to strive to follow Christ, then God might not credit it as righteousness, because our dead faith would not meet the purpose of God's chosen people.

 

Note the denial of truth, no one seeks God is said to have a face value of no one ever seeks God, when verse after verse says people seek God some of the time.

 

Utter falsehood, Calvinism claims Total Spiritual Inability results in no unregenerate ever seeking God. Calvinists defend Calvinism by denying its bogus views...

 

Utter nonsense, through or by reason of faith does mean by reason of faith. Liberals redefine the very meaning of words...