Okay. Man is still lost when he is born into this world and in that condition the gospel is hidden to them.
Calvinism is Gospel !
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There is no bible verse that states mankind is born unable to respond positively to the Good News message of Christ Jesus.
You have no such verse.
In context even your circumstantial evidence is not evidence at all .. it is just a narrative.
Calvinism is not the gospel. You might as well post children's rhymes as your understanding of the above scripture is
not the truth.
There is no salvation to those who believe Calvinism displaces the need for repentance.
mr bright...you do not, absolutely do not, preach anything to do with the cross and your statement that Calvinism is the gospel is utter foolishness, un-Christian and fits perfectly into the many isms that have been introduced into the world over the years to destroy the testimony of those who are actually Christians, believers in our Lord Jesus Christ.
They cannot see such Biblical truths. They also claim everyone hears when Jesus let us know that is not true.
Even worse, they have repeatedly told us God is unfair to do the
very things He is shown to do from beginning to end of the Bible.
Denying and contradicting Biblical truths is a mainstay of many of these free willers.
John 3 v 17-18 God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through Him. Whoever believes in Him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe has already been condemned, because he has not believed in the name of God’s one and only Son.
The Gospel is hid to them that are lost 2 Cor 4:3 and we are born lost !
Whatever the Gospel is, its hid to them that are lost.
Find where this is affirmed in scripture... from birth?
Being born lost, dead (separated) does not equate to be born unable to respond positively to the Good News of Christ Jesus.
You are making that assumption that it does.
You know as do your supporters there is not such verse and yet you have an entire system built on something does not exist in scripture.
Yes, you're just doing what the Jews did, but in reverse. It's not a Jew problem, it's a Jew and Gentile problem. That was Paul's argument. If the Jews who were blinded in Chapter 3 could still believe, then so could the Gentiles in Chapter 4:2-4.
2 Corinthians 4 verses 3-4 ~ 2 Corinthians 4 verse 4 ~ Even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those who are perishing. The god of this age has blinded the minds of unbelievers so they cannot see the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, Who is the image of God.
The natural man does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God. For they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned. 1 Corinthians ch 2 v 14
Does that verse talking about being born that way?
My goodness an unbeliever is someone who has chosen not to believe that why they are called unbelievers.
Those who are perishing are those who refused the truth. Do you think these people and Pauldid not know people who were refused to believe.
Just admit you are stuck, did you really think modern scholarship would not come along and destroy this house of cards built on continuous eisegesis.
1Therefore, since God in His mercy has given us this ministry,a we do not lose heart. 2Instead, we have renounced secret and shameful ways. We do not practice deceit, nor do we distort the word of God. On the contrary, by open proclamation of the truth, we commend ourselves to every man’s conscience in the sight of God. 3And even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those who are perishing.
4The god of this age has blinded the minds of unbelievers, so they cannot see the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.
Acts 20:21 Testifying both to the Jews, and also to the Greeks, repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ.
The Gospel is hid to those who are lost, the lost in this context are those who refused to believe, who did not receive the teachings of Christ Jesus.
Even those lost, at that point in time, could come to belief at another point in time, I am sure Paul had in mind a particular people who chose not to believe and they were lost when he wrote the letter.
The letter is for encouragement, that is how it should be read.
According to your hero, a saved man was in Christ before the foundation of the world. He could not be, nor ever will be lost.
What your offering is distorted view and assumptions nobody has
Jesus death is the finished work that CAN save.
This finished work of salvation is received upon faith.
Christ saves. I never said Christ doesn't save them from their sins...
Wow
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