No matter how you wish to paraphrase that, you can not take away that the given that the one who calls or ask in the name of the LORD is a believer or have faith in the LORD.When the verse is paraphrased as "Whoever asks to be saved, will be saved" the paraphrase in question implies that a man can come to God apart from faith in Jesus Christ.Tong2020 said: ↑
@justbyfaith, @Blood Bought 1953
Concerning Romans 10:13...
One ought to realize that it is a given that whoever calls the name of the LORD is a believer and have faith in the LORD.
It is not as though that the passage could apply to the unbeliever. That would be foolish to think like so, I should say. And even if there are unbelievers who calls the name of the LORD for whatever reason they call, I don’t think they will be saved, unless they believe in God and in Him whom He sent, Jesus Christ.
Read the immediately following verse, Romans 10:14 and listen to what Paul will tell you regarding that.
Whatever and however you may call it, any enabling of one dead could be nothing but a quickening or making alive.God enables him with his drawing power.Tong2020 said: ↑
Tell me, how does one who is in a state of death, being dead to God, do anything pertaining to the things of the Spirit of God?
God enabling him to make a decision to either receive or reject Christ, does not guarantee that the person will receive Christ, is what I am saying. The person must volitionally receive Him in order to be saved.
Otherwise, if you once felt you were drawn to Christ, you were saved; even though you may have rejected Him.
Read verse 13. John describes there who are the them that believe in verse 12.No, you have not.
John was not telling us what comes first JBF. John in v.13 tells us who the “them” in v.12 who believed. He is not in v.13 speaking about a becoming or being born of God.Answer me this, and I will also answer you: what comes first according to John 1:12? Receiving and believing; or becoming a child of God?Tong2020 said: ↑
So I ask again, who are the “them” that believe, according to John? Tell us please.
Tong
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