I don't think that alone is what's going on, no. I think God also creates ex nihilo a different will in the elect.
Yes, although it is the bottom line so to speak, the heart of the matter.
As you must know by now, any doctrine that's been "summed up" has been falsified to the extent that it's been reduced.
Summed up with respect to the bottom line, that's all.
This is purely the difference between the views. To consider it the sole element of salvation, and the sole summary of salvation in Reformed thought: that's silly.
Nobody said that it was the sole element, I was talking about the bottom line... and that bottom line pretty much sums up reformed thought in my opinion, just as he says... 'God tickles the willer of the elect'...
Not the case. They have every control. All are uniformly unwilling.
Okay, that's fine, everyone is unwilling unless God makes them willing.
Inability of will is not incapacity. It's unwillingness.
Again, that's great, and everyone is unwilling until God makes them willing, again, I get it. To me, it's not that complicated, and it can basically be understood by its bottom line, which is that man will not believe until God regenerates him so that he will believe... that's consistent with God tickles the willer of the elect imo.
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