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Unfortunately this is so, but I do believe people are desiring truth and trying to reconcile scripture. Would that more would value others over being right.

If your aim is to be able to impact others with the things you have learned, you might want to look for common ground on which to build. Antagonizing others won't accomplish your goal. Don't become weary in your well doing.

Neither of you seems to have found the very rest the sabbath speaks to.

When God draws near an individual it is with the purpose of salvation. Did Noah find grace before God came to him? Did Abraham come to faith before God came to him? Did Paul come to faith before Jesus made Himself personally known to Him? No one comes to God without God first revealing Christ to...

Right...the kindness led to Him using faith to save you.

I have been. The gospel given without revelation will not convince anyone of its truth unto salvation. Read the passage in Matthew 16. Jesus' church is built upon the revelation of God that Jesus is indeed the Christ.

You should stop inaccurately presenting my views as well.

This also is inaccurate. I don't believe people don't respond of their own volition. I believe they do once God condescends to them and gives them revelation of Christ and what He has done for them in Christ. Read Matthew 16:17. The church is built on this revelation. So please stop...

It's almost like you purposefully misremember our past conversations. You are the one who believes few will be saved. I believe heaven is populated by a number that no man can number. Abraham was promised that his progeny through Christ would number as the stars and the grains of sand. And the...

I understand why Muslims don't ascribe deity to Him. It doesn’t make it any less disrespectful. And I didn't impose this belief on you. I simply proclaimed it. You are on a Christian site and you have been welcomed. No one has kicked you off or treated you poorly. This would not be the case for...

Go sports ball.

I'm saying God has already been long at work by the time those things take place. You earnestly should read more closely and not jump to conclusions. I spend more time in discussions with you speaking to your assumptions of what I share rather than what I actually post.

I would argue that he was saved before Ananias showed up.

Part of the problem here is that no distinction has been made between the indwelling of the Spirit, the gift of the Spirit, and spiritual gifts.

That Holy Spirit guy isn't so bad either.

God's grace is far more than the gospel.

I don't understand what you aren't understanding. I believe God initiates salvation by grace. I believe the responses of men are the result of that grace.

That's backwards. Faith is the result of grace. Grace is not the result of faith.

I'm not saying a person who is saved will not repent. I believe he will. But I believe he does so in response to God's grace and not in order to receive God's grace.

Not at all. All those things mentioned are attendant in salvation. They simply aren't the the cause. God's grace is the cause, and that based on the life and death of Christ.