It gets a bit tiring to see Calvinists constantly deny or try to misquote Romans 8. So a little bit of a study here.
God knows what we think. God knows how we think. God knows what we want. God knows what we should have.
He helps us, guides us, teaches us and gives us what we need.
He does not preprogrammed us to think in a certain way on any topic.
He does it all for our benefit according to the will and plan of God.
And here that is reinforced. God works for the good of those who love.
Love requires free will to choose. A robot programmed to act and respond in certain ways cannot love. It just obeys.
Notice the love comes before the call.
Christ died for the sins of every human being that has or ever will live. But the sinner must accept that sacrifice of their own free will.
Those who would love him he predestined. Then he called them not he called them to be predestined.
Meaning gave them Then he justified them, meaning at this point they had repented and free will by grace and faith in the Lord Jesus Christ.
And of course, once born again, at the rapture we will all be glorified.
Nothing in this allows for Calvinistic predestination.
That includes yourself. You are part of creation but nothing in all creation can take you from God's hand.
We have total free will in choosing or rejecting God. But if we choose God we become his servant, son of God and brother of Christ.
Nothing in the Bible teaches Calvinism or conditional salvation.
If you wish to argue against what I said, remember, you can't just post another verse claiming it says something else unless she can reconcile it with Romans 8.
26 In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us through wordless groans. 27 And he who searches our hearts knows the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for God’s people in accordance with the will of God.
God knows what we think. God knows how we think. God knows what we want. God knows what we should have.
He helps us, guides us, teaches us and gives us what we need.
He does not preprogrammed us to think in a certain way on any topic.
He does it all for our benefit according to the will and plan of God.
28 And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, have been called according to his purpose.
And here that is reinforced. God works for the good of those who love.
Love requires free will to choose. A robot programmed to act and respond in certain ways cannot love. It just obeys.
Notice the love comes before the call.
Christ died for the sins of every human being that has or ever will live. But the sinner must accept that sacrifice of their own free will.
Those God foreknew would love him he predestined. Not God predestined some to love him.29 For those God foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers and sisters.
And here's the biggie.30 And those he predestined, he also called; those he called, he also justified; those he justified, he also glorified.
Those who would love him he predestined. Then he called them not he called them to be predestined.
Meaning gave them Then he justified them, meaning at this point they had repented and free will by grace and faith in the Lord Jesus Christ.
And of course, once born again, at the rapture we will all be glorified.
Nothing in this allows for Calvinistic predestination.
Nothing in all of creation can take us from God. OSAS.31 What, then, shall we say in response to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? 32 He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all—how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things? 33 Who will bring any charge against those whom God has chosen? It is God who justifies. 34 Who then is the one who condemns? No one. Christ Jesus who died—more than that, who was raised to life—is at the right hand of God and is also interceding for us. 35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? 36 As it is written:
“For your sake we face death all day long;
we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.
37 No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. 38 For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, 39 neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
That includes yourself. You are part of creation but nothing in all creation can take you from God's hand.
We have total free will in choosing or rejecting God. But if we choose God we become his servant, son of God and brother of Christ.
Nothing in the Bible teaches Calvinism or conditional salvation.
If you wish to argue against what I said, remember, you can't just post another verse claiming it says something else unless she can reconcile it with Romans 8.
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