Search results

  1. sungaunga

    Can a person with Alzheimer's/dementia GET saved?

    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...
  2. sungaunga

    Please explain if no one is predestined

    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...
  3. sungaunga

    Please explain if no one is predestined

    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...
  4. sungaunga

    Please explain if no one is predestined

    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...
  5. sungaunga

    Please explain if no one is predestined

    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...
  6. sungaunga

    Please explain if no one is predestined

    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...
  7. sungaunga

    Please explain if no one is predestined

    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...
  8. sungaunga

    Please explain if no one is predestined

    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...
  9. sungaunga

    Please explain if no one is predestined

    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.
  10. sungaunga

    Please explain if no one is predestined

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

    Please explain if no one is predestined

    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...
  12. sungaunga

    Please explain if no one is predestined

    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...
  13. sungaunga

    Please explain if no one is predestined

    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...
  14. sungaunga

    Please explain if no one is predestined

    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...
  15. sungaunga

    Please explain if no one is predestined

    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. Yes, it is simple. Those that listen and learn are...
  16. sungaunga

    Please explain if no one is predestined

    I knew you’d say that. Because one has to deny the straightforward presentation of the ordering given to deny sovereign election. The order is as clear as it can be. It’s the giving that results in the coming. The Greek literally says, No one is able to come to Me if not the Father the (one)...
  17. sungaunga

    Please explain if no one is predestined

    Could you please answer my simple question? All that the Father gives Me will come to Me What comes first. The coming to Christ or the giving to Christ.
  18. sungaunga

    Please explain if no one is predestined

    Last I checked, verses 37 and 44 comes before verse 45. Who are those who listened and learned? Those that are given to Jesus by God. "All that the Father gives Me will come to Me." What comes first? The coming or the giving?
  19. sungaunga

    Please explain if no one is predestined

    It has always amazed me, people who profess to believe in the Bible likewise at the same time express incredible detestation for the God of the Bible. There’re so many people for various reasons wish to edit God, they wish to have only a God in essence they’re comfortable with. The fact of the...