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I am sorry that you are not able to understand the connection between regeneration and your eyes being opened and your ears hearing.
This cherry picking of verses is not the way to discover the truth of scripture. You need to be able to reconcile your doctrine with ALL of scripture. You quote Romans 3:9-12 and draw conclusions from it, but what about this passage...
I am sorry that you are not willing to defend your doctrine. Or are you unable?
If you want to discuss something, do it, start a thread for it. This is about the doctrine of unconditional election
The question itself implies responsibility. "What must I do to be saved?" If unconditional election were true, the only correct answer would have been "There is nothing you can do to be saved." Instead the answer given actually specifies a condition.
How many dead people do you know who have sat up and made decisions to move on with their life? Depraved people are most definitely dead in their sins and trespasses.
The real answer is we don't know if there is anything we can do to be saved, etc. God knows, but we don't, and so that changes everything from our perspective.
And the only reason I'm talking about it right now, is not really to affect the way you make choices/decisions, but is just because I want you all to know the truth, and also get to know this always all-knowing being that is always the first cause of everything, etc. Right now you don't at all know Him, etc.
No it doesnt, its just a question, concern about his condition. Besides, now was the opportunity for the Apostle to explain the Gospel, at which time truths like election of grace, and who Christ is, what He has done, for whom He done it.
Yes, one must have faith, but God bestows the gift of faith on us when he makes us His own. So, there is still nothing WE have to do for salvation. We DO follow His commands as a reflection of His love for us, because He asked us to, and to grow in Him, but that comes after justification. Not prior to it because the scriptures are clear that we cannot do anything to earn salvation. If we could, Christ’s sacrifice would have been in vain.
Do you not know when Jesus is speaking to people who are steeped in Jewish tradition and believes that the law saves them compared to when He (and the apostles after Him) are speaking about THE NEW COVENANT in His blood that He shed for us?
There is no way that "What must I do to be saved?" can be taken as the same thing "Am I saved?" The first question links salvation with DOING something. The second one doesn't. So the question was not merely a concern about his present condition. It was a question about agency in becoming saved.
It is odd that you say now was the opportunity for explaining election and grace (none of which requires us to DO anything) but rather goes directly to instructing them on DOING something.
There was no requirements or conditions, you have an spiritually awaken sinner, inquiring about salvation. This was an opportunity for the Apostle to teach the word of the Lord. Who Jesus is, what He accomplished and for who.
Paul later wrote to the Philippians, no doubt the jailor was among them, Paul made it clear in the epistle to them, that its given to believe on Christ name Phil 1:29
God cannot require perfection from all of us, or none of us would make it in, and there would have also been no point to Jesus dying for our sins, but I also don't think he can let all sins slide for everybody either, so individual judgement is going to be somewhere in-between probably, and might not be exactly the same for each individual person, since some of us are more or less capable in different areas, and only God knows what those are, etc, which leaves us right now not knowing what it is going to be, etc.
Your understanding of what it means to be dead in sins is flawed. It means to be separated from God because of your sins and has nothing to do with one's ability or inability to repent.
Yes, that's what you do.
What a lie. They absolutely do. Why is it that you're not interested in honest discussion? It seems that you just believe what you want to believe regardless of what scripture teaches.
I couldn't care less what you false teachers think. All of you Calvinists are wrong. You are blinded by your false doctrine.
That's what I've been discussing, but you run away from every argument that you have no answer for instead of just acknowledging the holes in your doctrine.
