Recent content by sungaunga

Nobody can be saved, apart from faith in Jesus Christ. Anybody who gets a disease like Alzheimer’s disease or dementia reaches a point in old age where they no longer can process information, has still had a life before that and still had the opportunity to live up to the life they had and to...

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It's time to start examining the traditions you're bringing in to the text. Adding theological import into the term "whosoever" simply demonstrates one's traditions infecting their exegesis of the text. The fact is the word "whosoever" in our English translations is really a formulation of two...

Of course He did. God did not coerce Adam to commit sin and fall, but he certainly ordained (allowed) it. You might not agree, but If you don't believe that, fundamentally, bottomline, you're an atheist. God has foreordained whatsoever comes to pass is not a statement that is unique to...

Scripture teaches God has ordained all things that come to pass. All things. Naturally, that would include the fall of man and the crucifixion of Jesus. Unless you're holding a position that God did not decree the fall and evil is something completely outside His sovereign control... Eph 1:11...

I find it ironic that for someone who thinks Calvinism produces automatons, which I take it you believe is wrong, and it is, you believe God dictated every word. Technically speaking, the writers of Scripture are never referred to as inspired. Paul is referring to their writings and he says that...

Facepalm... Where did i say we had no choice. Folks, this is a prime example of eisegesis. Right here. Oscar, the reality is, your theology functions synergistically and at the end of the day, you are an Arminian, whether you like it or not. Facepalm.. I digress for the weekend. Have a good...

What you're describing is the means God uses to draw His people. Faith comes by hearing and responding positively to the word of God, which is the result of the drawing of God. A man in his natural state can not respond positively to the things of God. Again, John 6:44 states no man can come to...

Absolutely not true. John 6:44 starts with, "No one can come to me." Implication there being No man in his natural state can come to Jesus. Absolutely no one. You can hand him a Bible, stick it under his nose and it doesn’t make any difference. Not only does he not understand it, to him it’s all...

When your traditions are so strong, that you can be staring at the words, and don't see it. This is what lenses of traditions do to Scripture. I provided 1 John 5:1 to which you replied with ad hominem.

1 John 5:1 Whoever believes that Jesus is the Christ is born of God. Regeneration precedes faith. Agreed? Good.

44“No one can come to Me unless the Father who sent Me draws him; and I will raise him up on the last day. 45“It is written in the prophets, ‘AND THEY SHALL ALL BE TAUGHT OF GOD.’ Everyone who has heard and learned from the Father, comes to Me. I think it's take to take off the tradition...

44“No one can come to Me unless the Father who sent Me draws him; and I will raise him up on the last day. 45“It is written in the prophets, ‘AND THEY SHALL ALL BE TAUGHT OF GOD.’ Everyone who has heard and learned from the Father, comes to Me. You keep going to a later passage, and taking it’s...

You're doing it again. You see, this is a common tactic and excuse by synergists to the plain teaching of John 6:44. To jump over to John 12. Unless you're a universalist, John 6:44 makes the "all men without exception" interpretation an impossibility. Jesus also clearly excludes it in 6:37...

44“No one can come to Me unless the Father who sent Me draws him; and I will raise him up on the last day. 45“It is written in the prophets, ‘AND THEY SHALL ALL BE TAUGHT OF GOD.’ Everyone who has heard and learned from the Father, comes to Me. No one can come to me. The "coming" in verse 45...