Recent content by Dima 26

I prefer (for generic reading) the KJV only because it's proven to be a respected version with time, and cause one needs to choose something anyways. Otherwise, I don't care really what version others use, I myself cross reference others all the time. I never try to "sound like the KJV"; that's...

Your always trying to make shortcuts: assuming the safest way is to simply make our will a figment, so as to seemingly err on the "Lord's side" on all things. This is not dividing divine matters rightly. So in order for the tenet of "no man may boast" to stand, you posit that obedience and...

Sure I am; it's you I'm concerned isn't paying attention since your never able to address any of mine stated propositions. Surely you'll pretend with me that none of what I write makes any "sense". You can have it your way if that's what makes you feel good, but I will answer you still - at...

Knowledge in its very essence means to "know": to be aware and acquainted with something. If He is the absolute cause of everything - in its immediate and proper sense - so as that nothing comes about from His creatures' will no more, than what does He need to "know"? Your trying to say He needs...

Then what are men's actions as opposed to His actions in context if this discussion? In other words, we have no real duty towards anything pertaining to our salvation? Everything is a gift that excludes our will?

I appreciate you taking the time to respond. There's a lot to dissect here; I'll try to shed light on the more prominent things. But I'll start off with this first: that mine assertation on foreknowledge still stands, namely, that your view of foreknowledge is such that it's superfluous when...

I'll get back to you later, because I'm short on time these next few days.

"For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren. Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified."...

The history of the world is largely a story of apostacy towards the Creator. Man was created "upright"; though he knew not good and evil, this is largely because (I believe) there was no "evil" in His creation to serve as an antithesis. The Lord Himself was to bring man up in every good way in...

You too; and God bless.

Yeah, this is what I call a fatalistic view of God, and to be frank: I reject it as unsound. Now I agree that the just man may (and often does) fall seven times and rises up again (Proverbs 24:15, 16), but the error is to make God the architect of it, and every singular event of life for that...

Does man have a actual duty towards God - which He actually requires from him, or is it only a figment, or hypothetical? What is our actual duty? To what end does God test the hearts of man if He chooses arbitrary?

I agree that all who come to the Son are also drawn of the Father. On a slightly different note, it might be useful to discuss what His drawing entails. In the same discourse where He tells the Jews that no one may come to Him unless drawn of the Father, right after He also says, "It is written...

I appreciate everyone's input. Just want to clarify that I do not believe man may merit His salvation with his works, as it is quite clear from scripture, our own testimony, and death itself that is a witness against all: that none is just before God. However, I was still trying to present this...

In context of the gospel, it is widely believed that sin (from the perspective of an increase of rebellion towards God) was not, and still not, a hindrance to faith - once someone is presented with the gospel itself; although what I'm alluding to primarily concerns the time when Christ Himself...