God says that all who come to Him in faith, none are turned away.
The ability to have faith is something each of us have.
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God says that all who come to Him in faith, none are turned away.Is the root of what your saying involve Pelagiustic thinking? If it does I know where you are going and I disagree 100%
All are given a measure of faith.
Calvanism is a horrible doctrine.
All are given a measure of faith.
Calvanism is a horrible doctrine.
Calvanism is a horrible doctrine.
All people.Are you saying all christians are given a measure of faith or all people?
What Calvanism does with it's beliefs is divide the Kingdom and believers. There are the elect and the non-elect.If by horrible you mean biblical, then yes.
God says that all who come to Him in faith, none are turned away.
The ability to have faith is something each of us have.
What Calvanism does with it's beliefs is divide the Kingdom and believers. There are the elect and the non-elect.
What Calvanism does with it's beliefs is divide the Kingdom and believers. There are the elect and the non-elect.
Truly bad doctrine when GOd says in His Word that He came so ALL could have everlasting life.
Why would God give someone a smidgen of faith...a measure so small they would deny Christ?All people.
We all have faith when we come to Jesus Christ.
I agree.People not believing what the bible says is what's causing division. Besides this is a debatable issue both within orthodoxy. It's not an essential of the faith. If you don't believe osas. Election, predestination that's fine with me. As long as the essentials are there then your my brother/sister in Christ.
The bible says faith is a gift.... "For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God,"
Just a quick note here...Ephesians 2:8 does not say that faith is the gift...it says that God's grace is the gift. English 101 can get you though this one. But if that fails...Ephesians 3:7 "of which I was made a minister, according to the gift of God's grace which was given to me according to the working of His power" and Ephesians 4:7 "But to each one of us grace was given according to the measure of Christ's gift."
Because being "dead in their sins" doesn't mean non-functional. That's the problem with your view. To be dead physically means separation of soul and body, as James 2:26 indicates.Yes I'm serious. How can someone dead in their sins and transgressions have faith...unless God quickens them?
Sad that your understanding of Mat 7:14 seems to be about one's lifestyle or works, or whatever. The verse is about narrowness in the FACT that salvation is ONLY through Jesus Christ. No other way; not by your works, your obedience, anything else.All I have to say to you guys in this ...
"... narrow is the gate and difficult is the way which leads to
(eternal) life, and there are few who find it." (Matthew 7:14)
My most sincere apology for adding to Scripture. lol
Enjoy your easy ride ... but, to where are you going?
'Tis a great shame that I'm not allowed here to say more!
Agreed, if using the word 'faith' as a noun. He gives us the body of what we are to believe....and you can't have that faith unless God gives it to you.
Eph 2:8 For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God,
Grace and faith are the gift.
Eph 3:7 speaks of the gift of grace pertaining to Pauls ministry. I think you may have taken your view out of context a little bit. Eph 4:7 speaks about the gifts of grace that benefit the church.
Nope. All men/everyone means exactly that: everyone. Not "some of all people". There is no context for "less than the entire human race in 2 Cor 5:14 and 15, nor in Heb 2:9, all of which say plainly that Christ died for all. Not most, not some. All. As in everyone.If you allow scripture to interpret scripture I believe it shows that the 'all men/ everyone' are the elect.
Please support your claim here with actual exegesis. When Paul wrote that "all died" he was repeating himself from Rom 5:12 - Therefore, just as through one man sin entered into the world, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men, because all sinnedLet's look at some scriptures that use the word ALL in relation to salvation.
2 Cor 14-15)," For the love of Christ controls us, having concluded this, that one died for ALL, therefore ALL died; and he died for all, that they should no longer live for themselves, but for him who died and rose again on their behalf"
* Here Paul speaks of ALL who died. But not ALL have died. He's speaking of Christians who have died in Christ. Therefor the ALL in this verse is Believers only not the unbelievers.
There is nothing here saying that Christ died ONLY for those 'in Christ'.(1 Cor 22-23), " For in Adam all die, so also in Christ ALL shall be made alive.
* who are the ones being made alive in Christ? They are the Christians and only the Christians. The ALL who died in Adam are all that Adam represents; every individual who ever lived. The ALL in Christ are only the believers. Therefor again the ALL in this verse is only Christians.
Nice try but no dice.(Rom 5:18) " so, as through one offense, there resulted condemnation to all men. So also, through one righteous deed, there resulted justification of life to ALL men"
* Are ALL men justified? No only the Christians are justified. So again the ALL in this verse is speaking of only believers.
Well let's look at your verses in context.The bible teaches that no one seeks for God (Rom 3:10-11). That we 'cannot' seek for God (1 Cor 2:14). If as a sinner who 'cannot' and 'will not' seek God, how does he seek for God? You can't! Your dead in your sins. Dead people don't seek for God. That is until faith is granted to us. Jesus declares "no one can come to Me unless it is granted him by the Father." (John 6:65). So then, if the father doesn't grant it you won't believe. I just don't understand how scripture says we can't believe without God granting it and then people go and say "yes you can".
(1 Cor 2:14), "The person without the Spirit DOES NOT accept the things that come from the Spirit of God but considers them foolishness, and CANNOT understand them because they are discerned only through the Spirit."
But 'does not' and 'cannot' somehow means 'does' and 'can'?
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