From your own words you will be judged.
I will stick with the Truth of His words.
This is just twisted words of what Jesus plainly said: "the DEAD WILL HEAR". It says the dead will THEN LIVE. The order is clear. The dead (spiritually) will hear BEFORE they will live.Actually, the dead hearing His voice, is they are dead and He makes them alive who are dead, so He regenerates the dead.
It isn't the living who hear and live. It's the DEAD who hear and then live. Your view has it backwards.Those who hear Him speak, live.
That is NOT what Jesus very plainly said. Again, He said "the DEAD WILL HEAR, and will live".The only way a dead man can hear is a supernatural miracle, an act of God.
This is not relevant to what Jesus said. The DEAD WILL HEAR and THEN WILL LIVE.That they hear, means this a directed word, a targeted word of God to a particular person. Since obviously not all are made alive, of necessity then, not all hear Him speak to them.
This has nothing to do with what Jesus said in John 5:25. He wasn't referring to physically dead people, but spiritually dead people, who NEEDED to live.How did Lazarus hear being dead?
They are not related at all. Lazarus was a physical resurrection. What Jesus was speaking about in John 5:25 is spiritual life, not physical life.Yet Lazarus comes forth alive from the tomb.
Is that any different really, than God raising the dead by speaking to them as Christ says?
If you can believe the one, why not the other?
I don't subscribe to "Calvin speak". Rom 8:17 is a statement about affirmation that we (believers in Christ) are sons of God. It isn't about regeneration.You don’t think that the Holy Spirit testifying to our spirit (which is regeneration in Calvin speak) is the voice of the Son of God?
I have no idea what this verse relates to regarding our discussion. It sure doesn't relate to Rom 8:17."seeking to know what person or time the Spirit of Christ within them was indicating as He predicted the sufferings of Christ and the glories to follow." 1 Peter 1:11
You should try reading about the fruits of the spirit for starters.
And totally non-snazzily, but I see this as a warning of most theology today (including Calvinism but also much of non-Calvinism):
You search the Scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life; and it is they that bear witness about me, yet you refuse to come to me that you may have life. -- John 5:39-41, ESVSo we (note the "we" here) should make sure we don't unintentionally worship the written word when there's a transcendent Word (who expresses himself partly but not exclusively through the written word) who beckons us further. You know, no bibliolatry.
From your own words you will be judged.
So you promote experience over scripture?
And your interpretations being of alignment with what scripture actually says quite clearly is ok apparently.
Such a standard is objectionable since it is subjective while scripture is objective.
This keeps missing completely Jesus' point. He said the DEAD WILL HEAR. He did NOT say "the ones made alive will hear", which is what Calvinists keep claiming. Jesus directly refutes that.Dead men do not hear in the natural God regarding being made alive for salvation purposes, unless God regenerates them. He does this by speaking to them to come alive.
What does the TEXT say that He says to them?Maybe he says to them 'live'.
How does this relate to what Jesus actually said? "The dead will hear."God speaks everything into existence, so why not dead men also?
Another verse that is not related to the discussion of what Jesus said in John 5:25.Matthew 4:4New American Standard Bible (NASB)
4 But He answered and said, “It is written, ‘Man shall not live on bread alone, but on every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God.’”
What is your point regarding what Jesus actually said in John 5:25?God has spoken to spiritually dead men, like Balaam. And they are staying dead.
We are discussing soteriology did you forget?Do you believe the Holy Spirit tells people if they should, e.g., take this job or that job, pray for this person or that person, etc.?
We are discussing soteriology did you forget?
I'm not trying to sneak anything in. I had to dig back to find his quote and didn't know how to capture his quote other than what I did.Hamster probably didn't see it since you didn't use the quote function - convenient….
"the verse" OK, which one. You must know that by now, the original posts are far removed from here. I don't have a photographic memory.The verse doesn't mention the heart - still waiting on that from you.
I thought the phrase "being changed into another man" had some meaning for those claiming to know the Bible. What ELSE do you think it meant? Saul was told by Samuel the PROPHET of GOD what to do and what he would find. So that meeting wasn't an accident or coincidence.Apply the same standards to yourself that you do to us please and find a verse that actually says Saul was given a new heart. Thanks.
"may or may not", huh. OK. Then tell me what Samuel was referring to, if NOT regeneration.Regardless the context of the verse is speaking of a singular event which may or may not include regeneration.
To continue the "logic" that the rock is blamed for falling, Calvinist theology provides those in hell with a logical excuse: they weren't chosen for heaven. While other equally bad sinners WERE chosen for heaven.The idea is that you can't help but sin given that the opposite of sin is faith, which is provided only through irresistible grace. Therefore, since sin is necessary, it's like a rock that necessarily falls. It makes no sense to blame people for what they can't help do, and this includes God.
To continue the "logic" that the rock is blamed for falling, Calvinist theology provides those in hell with a logical excuse: they weren't chosen for heaven. While other equally bad sinners WERE chosen for heaven.
If Calvinist theology were correct, then those in hell DO have an excuse because they weren't chosen.
Now, watch the reformed camp try to worm their way out of this.
It seems to go something like this:
- Believe something that makes theological sense but doesn't make philosophical or logical sense (e.g., a theology that involves reproaching nonbelievers for not believing, which is possible only through an irresistible grace that God alone gives).
- Believe that because (you think) God does it, it's therefore good.
- Illogical stuff is bad, and God only does good stuff.
- Therefore, God isn't illogical because he's good.
Of course you know how it relates.I said this:
"Except this view is refuted by Jesus Himself who said this:
“Truly, truly, I say to you, an hour is coming and now is, when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear will live." John 5:25
Note that it does NOT SAY "the regenerated will hear". It SAYS "the dead will hear".
How can the "dead" hear anything, according to Calvinistic thinking? They can't. They can't even believe, yet Jesus Himself said that the dead with hear and "will live". Oh, THEN regeneration. How about that!!"
I don't subscribe to "Calvin speak". Rom 8:17 is a statement about affirmation that we (believers in Christ) are sons of God. It isn't about regeneration.
I have no idea what this verse relates to regarding our discussion. It sure doesn't relate to Rom 8:17.
Men have no excuse for their sin. They stand guilty now and they will stand guilty in Hell.To continue the "logic" that the rock is blamed for falling, Calvinist theology provides those in hell with a logical excuse: they weren't chosen for heaven. While other equally bad sinners WERE chosen for heaven.
If Calvinist theology were correct, then those in hell DO have an excuse because they weren't chosen.
Now, watch the reformed camp try to worm their way out of this.
If they can't help but commit sin it's because they are sinners.Yes, this is the logical conclusion of Calvinism, but I still say even if double predestination (i.e., predestination) is true, you still have God acting totally illogically by blaming people for things they can't help but do, therefore it isn't of God.
If they can't help but commit sin it's because they are sinners.
They're being blamed for their sins because they are sinners.
How else would God treat them?
If they can't come to the Lord to be saved it's because they are sinners.
Sinning mankind is under the wrath of God now in this life. Anything that God deems appropriate for punishment - they deserve.
If He deems it appropriate to withhold salvation from anyone it is their just punishment that He do so.
If He deems it appropriate for His glory to give salvation to someone else it is only grace that they do not deserve from the righteous God.
Whether or not God predestined something to happen does not negate the fact that that thing could be brought to past through the sinful free choices of His creatures.
Predestination and free choice are completely compatible.