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You can search among those 43K denominations, and you won't find a single one of them that you perfectly agree with on everything. You're entitled to your God-given uniqueness and freedom of exploration.

If Apollos' water was literal, then Paul would have to have been planting literal seed. Don't get him mixed up with Old McDonald. :-)

The Bible mentions neither. It comes from a manmade label machine.

Picking up a phone and calling a preacher takes work and time. What if you dropped dead before you got baptized; would you be in heaven or hell?

So then it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that sheweth mercy. Romans 9:16 (KJV) The "it" isn't the eternal salvation of an individual; it's the temporary setting aside of Israel for service. Paul could wish himself accursed for the sake of the Israelites until...

Started what again? Obligating Himself again, after finking on His first obligation? You're hypothesizing. The historical reality is that He SAID He would save people; and having said it, He obligated Himself to do exactly what He said. Of course He doesn't owe humanity anything because He...

Yes He is. "Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved". He either obligated Himself with that statement or He's a liar.

I agree with what you're saying.

I never said that.

Free from what? Here are some things the Bible doesn’t say: And deliver THE WILLS WHICH through fear of death were all their EXISTENCE subject to bondage no WILL can come unto me, except it were given unto IT of my Father If the Son therefore shall make YOUR WILL free, YOUR WILL shall be free...

A person has a will, but the person is not a will. Nor is the will a person.

There's no mention of "the will" in those passages.

What are some examples of factors?

I agree that children (babies, toddlers) are innocent because they don't have the law, and ... sin is not imputed when there is no law. Romans 5:13 (KJV)

I don't understand the question.

I'm not clear regarding the thread title and opening post. You describe a person going from normal mental capabilities and then loosing them. Are you asking if they still have a will?

No, I'm saying that the will never changes. The will (as a choosing mechanism) is part of our anthropological make-up from creation. It doesn't change before, during, or after an unregenerate becomes a regenerate. It doesn't change before, during, or after a person dies and goes to heaven or...

Eternal life is a gift that a person receives all at once in this life. It's free, paid in full by Jesus' work on the cross. You receive it by believing on the Lord Jesus Christ as your Savior. You go from not having it to having it in a moment.

The will (as a choosing mechanism) doesn't change, but the choice options that God submits to the will do change. To the unsaved person: the choice options submitted to the will are to accept or to reject Jesus as your Savior. To the saved person: those 2 choice options are no longer submitted...

Either/or is the man-made popular propaganda. As a "theory", it fails the test of Scripture: This is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners; of whom I am chief. 1 Tim 1:15 (KJV) O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me...