I simply replied to your reply doubting the truth that men can not choose God unless God first chooses them because they are spiritually dead and by their nature hate God, which is the doctrine of original sin but it seems you have made up your own version of this doctrine and think that dead men can actually do something besides be dead.
Many men indeed seek the benefits that God gives but not God Himself.
Rom 3:11 THERE IS NONE WHO UNDERSTANDS; THERE IS NONE WHO SEEKS AFTER GOD.
Those who proclaim that men can do anything to save themselves pervert the notion of grace and with it the Gospel itself.
Many men indeed seek the benefits that God gives but not God Himself.
Rom 3:11 THERE IS NONE WHO UNDERSTANDS; THERE IS NONE WHO SEEKS AFTER GOD.
Those who proclaim that men can do anything to save themselves pervert the notion of grace and with it the Gospel itself.
Once the soul is made free to believe or reject?
Then that soul will know that his choice was His own, and not something God imposed upon him.
Only crazy gods make people to reject them, so to condemn them by making them unable to choose for what's right...
What you are doing is not thinking clearly, but wanting to feel a sense of resolve, because the problem makes you feel not smart enough to figure it out.
Jumping to erroneous 'dogmatic' conclusions is where you be.
Calvinism was an attempt to resolve a deep paradox.
It found a way to make up one's mind in a manner to eliminate the destabilizing effects of ambiguity that some find too painful to tolerate