not if he believes in a free will that can choose God apart from God enabling a person. man is dead in sin, a slave to sin, sin is their master, man hates God, is a child of the devil, does not understand the things of the spirit(anything to do with Gods word and Salvation), does not seek God, loves darkness and hates the light,
So, if man is evil, wicked, and hostile to God from birth, as scripture tells us , and as YOU have shown, it needs people to exercise their freewill in order to turn to God. If we did not have freewill we would remain in the same sinful state in which we were born and from which condition Christ came to save us.
Listen to Jesus below as many disciples stopped following Him. These were the ones who on their own " free will " as you put it followed Jesus but the ones Jesus calls, chooses, enables, will remain in Him and follow Him unto death as all His Apostles had done who suffered persecution and death for being His disciples.
If you mean by your post to show that I was in error that Calvinism teaches that man is unable to repent because man is unwilling to repent, because Wiki says it teaches that as a consequence of man's fall that they are unable, you are mistaken. Calvinism shows that man is born a slave to sin, but that their will is continually set against God, until God regenerates them.
Who said --who even hinted at, "all they have to do is change their mind and repent"? Of course they are NOT capable of changing their mind and repenting! Only God can change their mind, making them willing to repent. Only God can make anyone's repentance "real".
The funny thing is all they can do is use ad hominem attacks on the scriptures I post and not once did I mention "calvin" .
No faith other than "Saving Faith" involves the "knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus" and has the power to escape "the pollutions of this world".
You are merely restating the same thesis. You are not showing the logical link between man's lost condition and freewill. The Scriptures do not demonstrate any need for freewill. While they do demonstrate the fact of man's CHOICE, they don't demonstrate choice as the determining factor (i.e. the cause, to any degree) for Salvation. They do show a man's choice as evidence for Salvation, but not a cause for Salvation.
You are making my point for me lol. Their free will decision is why they no longer followed Him for they were never drawn to Christ by the Father, hence they fell away.
What does this have to do with the current subject of debate? I do believe it is related, but it seems to me you are moving the goalposts.
You know this, how? Did not Judas know the Lord and Savior Jesus, and do not those who follow the law reap the benefits of doing so? For example, simply reading and filling one's mind with Scripture will do much to clean one's mind and put it on spiritual things (though it remain unable to understand spiritual things) so that the depths of depravity will not be indulged in to the degree that one might go who spends their time reading or watching depraved filth. Likewise, one who refrains from adultery and sexual immorality is not likely to contract STD's.
And....around and around we go.....
