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Interestingly enough, last time I checked, Israel was the 153rd largest country in the world by area.

Why do you believe that "the point being made was that the hearing of His voice only occurs spiritually unto the learning/believing of His doctrine?" What in the text conveys that idea? Where are "spiritual ears" mentioned in the Bible? "How shall they believe in Him of whom they have not...

Oh, I see. Foghorn said: "All those who are drawn believe. 26 But ye believe not, because ye are not of my sheep, as I said unto you. 27 My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me: John 10 If you're of God, you hear, if you're drawn, you come. It's that simple. All that the...

What makes you think that coming to Jesus equates to being saved. Is that how we use the expression "coming to". If I come to India, does that mean I put my trust in India?

What use is simply citing texts without explaining what you think they mean. It is obvious from these forums that people often see different things in the same text. So, what do you understand each of those texts to be saying. And how does what they are saying lead you to the conclusion you draw...

What do you think your texts above prove?

He likely denies the meaning calvinism gives to the words, but accepts the words with their biblical sense. I would say the same.

You are using the fallacy of special pleading. You are assuming that when scripture says God opens someone's mind to something He does it differently from the way we do, because God is different.

Everything good God does for us is grace. Prevenient grace is not a thing different from grace. All good God does for a man before conversion is prevenient grace. But is is no different from postvenient grace. The Bible only mentions grace.

I look forward to reading that.

The following is not reading scrioture for what it SAYS. Foghorn said: "let’s consider it for a moment. No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him. And I will raise him up on the last day. God only draws His elect. Judas wasn’t drawn because he was not an elect. Also keep in...

No. But you are propounding tenets unique to calvinism.

I know he didn't interject (sic.) faith. No that is not what i'm worried about. I'm critical of the unique spin calvinists give to language used in the Bible in order tpo force it to say something we don't mean with the same language outside of the Bible.

You are imposing calvinism on the Bible. You are denying what the text says to make it teach what your calvinism needs it to say. Where does the Bible say God draws only the elect? It clearly says, "No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draw Him." Judas was with Jesus for three...

English hear and listen have different meanings, right? They are not exactly the same, are they? King James Bible It is written in the prophets, And they shall be all taught of God. Every man therefore that hath heard, and hath learned of the Father, is coming unto me. Since all the Jews were...

If someone is against the right to life and I communicate to them in a friendly persuasive way why the life of a child in the womb should be protected, so that they change their mind, I have opened their heart to the pro-life position by communicating persuasively. I do not reach into their...

What do you mean by "love and truth are self-imposed limiting characteristics"? If God is love, how is love a self-imposed characteristic? If God is the truth, how is truth a self-imposed characteristic? In what way are these characteristics limiting?

Who has said that God is equal to time or space? Straw man fallacy.

That is a fair and interesting point. Does it say that after Paul prayed for them they were filled with, or they received, the Holy Spirit ? It says "The holy Spirit came upon them and they spoke in tongues and prophesied." So it seems they were filled, and they could have had the Holy Spirit...

That's the problem with Calvinism. Any time the plain sense of some biblical text or concept contradicts calvinism, the calvinist rejects the plain sense for their calvinist system/gnosis.