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Eph 4:1 I am calling alongside ( Παρακαλῶ , present active indicative) therefore ( οὖν ) you ( ὑμᾶς ), I ( ἐγὼ ) the prisoner ( ὁ δέσμιος ) in what characterises the lord ( ἐν κυρίῳ , anarthrous κυρίῳ ), worthily ( ἀξίως ) to walk ( περιπατῆσαι, aorist active infinitive ) of the calling ( τῆς...

Eph 3:20 Now/So, to the one being able ( Τῷ δὲ δυναμένῳ, present deponent participle ) above all things ( ὑπὲρ πάντα , neuter plural) to do ( ποιῆσαι, aorist active infinitive ) above abundantly ( ὑπὲρ ἐκπερισσοῦ ) of which ( ὧν ) we are asking ( αἰτούμεθα , present middle indicative ) or...

Which number post does s/e first occur? I don't think it's reasonable to expect a person visiting this thread to read all 32 pages of 632 posts to learn your abbreviation system before they comment on a recent post. If your aim is to have new visitors to the thread engage with your posts, I...

You seem to be confusing free will with omnipotence. I can freely desire whatever I want to desire, and no one can stop me wanting what I want. Whether I can achieve what I want, has no bearing whatever on whether my wanting itself is free.

s/e ? Maybe you could drop the abbreviations for the sake of clear communication.

We certainly don't have free will as you define it. But your definition isn't in line with how the Bible uses the words for will: thelO (to will) and thelEma (a will).

Luk 3:38 Which was the son of Enos, which was the son of Seth, which was the son of Adam, which was the son of God. Jhn 1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. Jhn 1:2 The same was in the beginning with God. Jhn 1:3 All things were made by him; and...

Biblically, "to will" is "to want or desire something". No one can stop me "wanting/willing" what "I want/will".

My wife and I have been busy lately relocating from India back to NZ, with no real time to contribute to discussions on CC. We moved into our new home on our new orchard a couple of days ago..

As Jesus said, "According to your faith be it done unto you." If you believe you have no free will, you get what you believe. Others who believe they have free will get what they believe." What would you prefer to have, @LifelongLearner ?

Because I don't agree that the Bible teaches your opinion on depravity, you judge that I just don't understand depravity. :rolleyes: Maybe it is you who do not understand the biblical view of depravity. It seems, according to you, that no unregenerate person can do anything good, so...

This does not appear to be a true representation of Paul's message. In every letter he wrote, he followed the theological revelation of Christ and His work with descriptions of the high standards to which we should behave in response to the foregoing theological revelation of Christ and His...

What is you scriptural basis for believing that an unregenerate person is unable to believe - have faith in - anything God reckons to be true. What is your scriptural basis for believing that God does not consider as good believing something true, if the person believing that truth is an...

I would revise my translation and parphrase a little, reading this again. Isa 48:7 Now ( עַתָּה ) they have been brought into being ( נִבְרְאוּ , niphal perfective), but not ( וְלֹא ) from the beginning ( מֵאָז ), when I first declared them, But before the day ( וְלִפְנֵי־יוֹם ) that they...

It is quite possible that Cornelius had already heard that Jesus of Nazareth had been crucified and had reportedly risen from the dead. He may also have heard that Jews who believed Jesus had risen were testifying to having been forgiven for all their past sins, but he had not yet heard, nor had...

1. I don't think the passage refers directly to either messiahship or salvation. It simply affirms that God chooses for His purposes whom He wills, regardless of what that person may have done in their past. With hindsight, one could infer that one reason God was requiring the nation of...

Well, scripture says that we are sealed with the Holy Spirit until some event. That indicates that we could possibly become unsealed at that event.

Why are these things not true of the unsaved?

Act 10:6 He [Peter] lodgeth with one Simon a tanner, whose house is by the sea side: he shall tell thee what thou oughtest to do. What ought Cornelius to do? And why ought he to do it? So, are you saying that one can be saved without knowing the gospel? What was God's purpose, in your...

But Cornelius was not regenerate, and yet God considered that he had been doing commendable righteousness. Acts 10. So, are you agreeing that the unregenerate, though suffering from omni-faceted imperfection, can believe sufficiently in God to do some righteousness?