Originally posted by standingfirminChrist:
you are talking apples and oranges.
dead in the natural is inability to move or do a thing.
but dead in sin is different.
if one dead in sin cannot hear or feel the drawing of God, Adam and Eve would not have answered God after their fall.
Paul would not have answered God on the road to Damascus. Paul was not regenerated before his faith in Christ. As a matter of fact, when he was knocked off his high horse, he still did not know Christ. Else he would not have cried out, 'Who art thou, lord?'
The Philippian jailor would not have asked the question, 'Sirs, what must I do to be saved'
It is only through the washing of water by the Word that one can be regenerated. One does not get saved and then hear the Word. One hears the Word and gets saved.
Please allow me to ask you a few questions in this message.
But first, you must understand that you are taking what I wrote out of context, and then implying that I said that hearing the Word has nothing to do with being saved.
That my kind brother, is insulting.
The comparisons used in my previous message were to illustrate differences and similarities - you, yourself, even said in your reply;
"if one dead in sin cannot hear or feel the drawing of God, Adam and Eve would not have answered God after their fall."
Well, was Adam dead? ...is Adam in Hell today?
Still, I implore you to ponder the following once more:
No man will, or can, do anything of the Spirit without first moved by the Spirit. The only way for that to happen is to be given life - as no man is capable of doing anything good on his own.
This is the law spoken by our Lord, not myself.
