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Regeneration/Justification is monergistic. Sanctification is synergistic.
If the elect aren't people who do you think they are
A contradiction per scripture. One has nothing to do with the other. No person was elected to believe, no person was selected, predestined, chosen to believe.Faith takes place in time , election takes place in eternity and it is always unconditional !!
Depersonalising election is something scripture doesn't do ... only those who have a problem with it attempt to make Election mean very little or nothing .
never said they are not people, but they are a group of people. It is the Body of Christ. It never says that a person is predestined to be one of the elect. or is an elect. All it ever says is that those who are elect, those that love God, that believe, were predestined to be conformed to His Image, to become like Christ, to be made holy and blameless.If the elect aren't people who do you think they are
and one has nothing to do with the other. No person was elected to believe, no person was selected, predestined, chosen to believe.Faith takes place in time , election takes place in eternity and it is always unconditional !!
No it does not, it just does not exist as you interpret it. The Church never has had a problem with it. You are the one that has the problem with it. Show that it existed over the last 2000 years as a doctrine of Christianity.Depersonalising election is something scripture doesn't do ... only those who have a problem with it attempt to make Election mean very little or nothing .
never said they are not people, but they are a group of people. It is the Body of Christ. It never says that a person is predestined to be one of the elect. or is an elect. All it ever says is that those who are elect, those that love God, that believe, were predestined to be conformed to His Image, to become like Christ, to be made holy and blameless.If the elect aren't people who do you think they are
and one has nothing to do with the other. No person was elected to believe, no person was selected, predestined, chosen to believe.Faith takes place in time , election takes place in eternity and it is always unconditional !!
No it does not, it just does not exist as you interpret it. The Church never has had a problem with it. You are the one that has the problem with it. Show that it existed over the last 2000 years as a doctrine of Christianity.Depersonalising election is something scripture doesn't do ... only those who have a problem with it attempt to make Election mean very little or nothing .
never said they are not people, but they are a group of people. It is the Body of Christ. It never says that a person is predestined to be one of the elect. or is an elect. All it ever says is that those who are elect, those that love God, that believe, were predestined to be conformed to His Image, to become like Christ, to be made holy and blameless.If the elect aren't people who do you think they are
and one has nothing to do with the other. No person was elected to believe, no person was selected, predestined, chosen to believe.Faith takes place in time , election takes place in eternity and it is always unconditional !!
Depersonalising election is something scripture doesn't do ... only those who have a problem with it attempt to make Election mean very little or nothing .
Cygnus,
never said they are not people, but they are a group of people. It is the Body of Christ. It never says that a person is predestined to be one of the elect. or is an elect. All it ever says is that those who are elect, those that love God, that believe, were predestined to be conformed to His Image, to become like Christ, to be made holy and blameless.
Quote:God decrees sin. God HATES sin, Jesus came to DESTROY sin, but you perceive "God decrees sin".
I believe we serve different gods . ..either that or you serve God accidently.
God does decree sin ... the Crucifixion was sin and God decreed it in total.
because you can't , you never could.I have no idea how to convince you otherwise...
as long as they are alive and are willing to come to Christ they have every hope ben , the way is open to all.Quote:God is the "God of all hope".
God does will many to perish for their sin as many scriptures affirm.
God's desire for all to repent is a conditional desire , not an absolute desire otherwise it would be done.
God is the God of all hope , not man with his so called abilities!
But God decreed the majority sin, and perish.
God WILLS for them to perish.
What hope do THEY have???
In my own words ;In your own words, your perception of God is "He is NOT the God of 'all hope'."
The argument is back to this kind of random drop-texting.Quoted by Jesusfreak5000:Because of verses like 2Cor5:17; "the old has passed away, all things have become new --- he is a new creation". Do you now say "he's still ALSO an old creation"???
Who said regenerate man only has one nature?
Have you ever read, "No one can serve two masters; he will hate the one and love the other"?
In Rom6, Paul says "How can we who have DIED to sin, still live IN it?"
To be exceedingly precise you would have to admit (as all followers of Calvin do) that from your logical construction one admissible possibility is to have a will that wills as the First Cause willed it to will.This is a difficult issue to talk about since we all need to be exceedingly precise in our terminology. I will try to be as precise as possible and explain exactly what I mean. Consider this assertion:
A1: All events that occur are have only one and only one wilfull agent as their fully sufficient cause - God.
This assertion cannot be reconciled with the view that man has free will. By the very nature of the assertion A1, man cannot have free will. There are no issues of perspective here. If A1, as written, is true, man cannot have free will.
Why? Because unless man can have a wilfully determining role in respect to at least partially causing some event, then, by the very definition of free will, man does not have free will.
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