I can assure you Jesus did not have the Reformed Doctrine/Westminster Confession in mind when He stated those words.
Calvinism is Gospel !
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I can assure you Jesus did not have the Reformed Doctrine/Westminster Confession in mind when He stated those words.
I want to make further distinction I made earlier about "new" people, who yet have found a bond so quickly and how quaint that is. The more genuinely "new" people that know others as well as these do are more forthcoming about having been around under another username, so I can see the cuckoo feathers that form this bond. And I can understand why I would irritate such a nest of hornets so much, when all they want to do is to be left alone to peacock.
Supposedly, I'm being ignored, I guess. But I find that as hard to believe to be offered in any sincerity. I mean, the announcement of it set the sufficient 'stage' for the audience after all.
That lines up with the character, life, actions, words of Christ Jesus so well. NOT!
Bible: God gives grace to the humble, so humble yourself.
Calvinism: God unilaterally chooses to graciously makes some humble so as to give them saving grace, so hope God picked you.
Calvinism: God unilaterally chooses to graciously makes some humble so as to give them saving grace, so hope God picked you.
So tell me, how do you understand Rom 8:7-8 which explicitly
7 Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.
8 So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God.
If these be true and the natural man cannot please God while in the flesh, how can they exercise saving faith which definitely pleases God, before they are given a new heart and nature which changes them ?
Man by nature is proud, not humble Rom 1:30
Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,
2 Tim 3:2
For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,
In order for a man to be humble he has to be already regenerated. The scripture you quoted, next time show the scripture, is probably either in James 4:6 or 1 Pet 5:5 in which they are born again already !
Just more Scripture that they reject, contradict, and outright deny. Par for the course for these FWers.
That one in particular, with her Darwinian new age views layered into her Pelagian heresy.
Jesus calls the grave diggers
“Dead”. Not sick. Not mostly dead. But dead!
Stop stealing God’s Glory, and boasting on YOUR choice.
You are no better, no more moral, no smarter than those that hear the Gospel and reject Him.
God, is the ONLY reason you were drawn to Him. And GOD, is the One that gifted you the faith to believe!
Please explain Jesus own words Jn 6:44
44 No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him: and I will raise him up at the last day.
Paul wrote of the natural mans response to the Spiritual things of God 1 Cor 2:13-14
13 Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual.
14 ;But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
The Gospel is classified as Spiritual things of God 1 Cor 9:11
If we have sown unto you spiritual things, is it a great thing if we shall reap your carnal things?
Wow!!!
This is horrible.
You think the faith you have is from YOU, and not God.
I’m truthfully fearful for you, stealing God’s Glory.
That was directed towards self righteous Pharisees who thought they were well and healthy,
He is not defining the absolute ontological limit of human depravity there.
- Scripture explicitly states that we are "dead in trespasses and sins" (Ephesians 2:1). A sick man can take medicine; a dead man cannot. If Paul wanted to say we were just "spiritually sick," the Greek language has plenty of words for illness (astheneia, kamno). Instead, the Holy Spirit chose the Greek word νεκρός (nekros), which means a corpse. [1, 2, 3, 4] AI
Congrats, you just acknowledged who your Saviour from sin is, and it wasn't Jesus Christ the Saviour !
Still waiting for the regeneration precedes faith verse.
Oh right it does not exist.
Yes, whosoever. Lovers of darkness choose to believe? They hate the light and refuse to come into it.
Scripture says so. Slaves to sin choose to believe in the God they are hostile towards? Flesh produces
something good? Scripture says nothing good dwells in the flesh. Oops. The flesh profits nothing as
Jesus said. It serves the law of sin and brings forth fruit unto death. FWers claim the opposite to say
it can produce faith bringing forth fruit unto life. The person that can neither receive nor comprehend
the Spiritual things of God, who is actually opposed to the Spiritual things of God and hears the gospel
message as foolishness, does not choose to believe it. He is blinded by the god of this world and under
the power and influence of the devil as is the whole world, out of which believers have been called.
The stony heart of the natural man is not good ground for growing the Seed of God's Word.
Flesh serves the law of sin, for the flesh craves what is contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit what is contrary to the flesh. They are opposed to each other. But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ! Because everyone born of God overcomes the world. In the mixed up un-Biblical theology of the free will crowd, man overcomes the world with his wicked heart and is then born again.
You will have to do better than that. If you actually quote what you are referring to, I can answer your question.
Listen, I do not go around calling people names. That is the territory of magenta. If you would actually check out this thread,
you would see that to be true.
I will, however, say that magenta is a very sad example of the love Christians should show each other. The bitterness and actual hatred she displays, is not fitting to be read. You can quote me on that any time....but quote...don't twist what I said
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