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brightfame52

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And yet the bible is literally filled with unregenerated people believing God . So it must mean your interpretation is wrong . If it said unregenerated people cannot believe the Gospel unless they are regenerated first you would have a point . Your adding the extra bit into ' cannot please God ,therefore must mean they can't believe God also .
Thats not true ! This is True Rom 8:8

8 So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God. Believing/Faith pleases God, so they who are in the flesh cannot believe/have Faith in God.
 
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No thats right. One has to be regenerated by the Spirit before they can produce Faith, because they which are in the flesh cannot please God Rom 8:8
If that’s what you think

I can’t believe god will raise a person in sin before sin is redeemed
no one can please god until they are saved. Rom 8 does not support you
 

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If God pronounce men Just, they lived by Faith Hab 2:4

Behold, his soul which is lifted up is not upright in him: but the just shall live by his faith.

Man naturally cant please God by living by Faith
HIS faith .HIS !!
 

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Nowhere is it stated that Acts 2 is the start of regeneration, new birth. Men lived by Faith in the OT, Faith is the Fruit of the Spirit Gal 5:22, not of the flesh, hence they which are in the flesh [ the unregenerate] cannot please God.
HIS !!! Faith in the OT . HIS !!
 

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Thats not true ! This is True Rom 8:8

8 So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God. Believing/Faith pleases God, so they who are in the flesh cannot believe/have Faith in God.
lol look how your adding to the text ? ' Cannot believe ' . Stop adding to the text .
 

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Thats not true ! This is True Rom 8:8

8 So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God. Believing/Faith pleases God, so they who are in the flesh cannot believe/have Faith in God.
After a person is saved. Then they please God. In the flesh , God is not pleased by a person in the flesh . When they believe ( faith comes by hearing) then God is pleased . 1 cor 1.21
21For after that in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God, it PLEASED God by the foolishness of preaching to save THEM THAT BELIEVE . It does not say ' he causes belief in those he saves '.
 

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Thats not true ! This is True Rom 8:8

8 So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God. Believing/Faith pleases God, so they who are in the flesh cannot believe/have Faith in God.
This is classic calvinist thinking. Your literally taught this method and think its perfectly acceptable to infer all the time . Do you think God is pleased when a believer behaves carnally ( fleshy ) ?
 

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Thats not true ! This is True Rom 8:8

8 So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God. Believing/Faith pleases God, so they who are in the flesh cannot believe/have Faith in God.
Abraham was never regenerated. Did he obey God? If you believe he was regenerated ( born again) which verse ?
 

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Thats not true ! This is True Rom 8:8

8 So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God. Believing/Faith pleases God, so they who are in the flesh cannot believe/have Faith in God.
when it comes to pleasing God, a man has to exercise faith in what God told him to do (Heb. 11:6). In this dispensation, God told men to believe on Jesus Christ for salvation (John 6:29). So simple .
 

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This is classic calvinist thinking. Your literally taught this method and think its perfectly acceptable to infer all the time . Do you think God is pleased when a believer behaves carnally ( fleshy ) ?
Its biblical thinking !
 

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After a person is saved. Then they please God. In the flesh , God is not pleased by a person in the flesh . When they believe ( faith comes by hearing) then God is pleased . 1 cor 1.21
21For after that in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God, it PLEASED God by the foolishness of preaching to save THEM THAT BELIEVE . It does not say ' he causes belief in those he saves '.
A person in the flesh is a lost unregenerate, they cant please God, in fact they are totally spiritually dead to God.
 

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when it comes to pleasing God, a man has to exercise faith in what God told him to do (Heb. 11:6). In this dispensation, God told men to believe on Jesus Christ for salvation (John 6:29). So simple .
The unregenerate in the flesh cannot please God or exercise Faith Rom 8:8
 
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Yes he was regenerated, where do you read he wasnt ?
He is a dual gospel person. He rejects that all people of all times have been justified by faith.
 

throughfaith

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A person in the flesh is a lost unregenerate, they cant please God, in fact they are totally spiritually dead to God.
I'm taking about ' regeneration precedes faith ' This is your faulty assumption. Where is the verse ? Where is the verse that says repentence is withheld?
 

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I'm taking about ' regeneration precedes faith ' This is your faulty assumption. Where is the verse ? Where is the verse that says repentence is withheld?
Yes regeneration is before Faith, Faith pleases God which the unregenerate cant do since they are in the flesh. If you cant accept that, no other scriptures can clear it up for you.
 

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Yes regeneration is before Faith, Faith pleases God which the unregenerate cant do since they are in the flesh. If you cant accept that, no other scriptures can clear it up for you.
I only want to believe what the bible actually says . This is the gulf between bible believers and Calvinists.