LOL my quote is Scripture.You do not recognise it because you are blind to the truth. see Eph 1.3 onwards
WHICH BIBLE ARE YOU DEVOTED TO? OBVIOUSLY NOT THE CHRISTIAN BIBLE
It is impossible to be regenerated and not believe. It is impossible to believe and not be regenerated. THINK about it.
God works faith in the one who is regerated
A man is regenerated to Christ at the same time as he truly believes in Christ. Both go together. Regeneration is God's side, responsive faith is our side.
Falling from grace is a doctrinal matter not a salvation issue. The man who had 'fallen from grace' had temporarily given up grace alone and was trusting in other things. He had been deceived as some on this web are deceived. But he was not lost.
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Actually IT DOES. It says WHOM THE FATHER GIVES to me will come to me. THE GIVING IS BEFORE THE COMING.
iT says NO ONE IS ABLE TO PLUCK THEM FROM THE FATHER'S HAND. tHAT IS why THEY WILL never PERISH
But he says that baptism saves them by 'the appeal of a good conscience towards God'. It is their heart belief towards God that saves them of which baptism is the sign
But who was he justified before? Not God. He had already been justified before God by faith.
It was BEFORE MEN that he was justified by works. Justification by works is always before men.
Do we? Funnily enough I haven't. I was dead in sin and shapen in iniquity.
Thank God I am not dependent on my freewill. I could say goodbye to salvation,