I notice you haven't taken a shot at the thread I posted a couple days ago, "A Treatise upon the Sovereignty of God vs. the Free Will of Man". Plenty of scripture there. Have a go at it, why don't you?
Anyone who would define the sovereignty of God (a none biblical term, BTW) to mean that a person cannot hear and comprehend something as simple as the gospel of Jesus Christ and decide to believe it or disbelieve it, is incredibly naive, to say the very least. Who could get grown men with high IQ's to believe such a thing as that, and what does it say for those who will believe it?
You fellows have several years experiencing the human phenomenon called life. You know how things work. You have self identity. You make decisions based on information you receive every day. If you are in a building without windows and someone tells you it is raining outside, you pick up the umbrella. You believe them if it is a credible source.
To say a person, hearing the gospel, cannot believe it, is not a question of theology, it is a question of belief. The gospel is just too simple for you to believe it. but it is a fact from the scriptures. Go and preach the gospel to every creature and whosoever believes it will be saved, Jesus Christ said to ones who had witnessed his resurrection and had believed it.
The gospel is simple and an aborigine in the outback of Australia, or anyone else in the world, can believe it if he hears it and will be saved if he does even though he has never been in contact with it beforehand. This is a promise from God Almighty.
Look unto me and be ye saved all the ends of the earth, for I am God and there is none else, God says.
The gospel:
Men are sinners because they sin. They have no power against it.
The wages of sin is death in the Lake of Fire forever
Sin is a conscious and deliberate act by one who knows he is sinning.
The merciful and gracious God who created man loved the world and did not wish them to perish in the Lake of Fire
He sent his son, who did have power over sin and who never sinned, to finally be a perfect sacrifice for sinful men and to substitute in their death, every one of them.
But the sting of sin is death and death could not hold him because he had never sinned and so he broke the power of death and overcame it by rising from the dead.
God was satisfied by his sacrifice on their behalf and he gave all condemned men a promise that he would forgive their sin and save them from death in the Lake of fire if they would just believe him and accept his son as their saviour.
He poured out the Spirit of his son into all the world, like water, so all who would believe him and receive him by faith in his sacrifice on their behalf could have the Life of his son.
Those who will simply believe that God has made a way of salvation through the death and resurrection of his son will receive the same Spirit of life that raised Jesus Christ from the dead and quickened him and they will have life instead of death and no more condemnation by sin, though they may still commit acts of sin.
There is no trick to this and there are no exceptions of men and there is no condition of a previous election to be saved. There is a condition of faith. One must believe it!
