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Even demons believe (James 2:19). You cannot believe in God without believing God. Believing in God is both believing God and trusting God. That's by definition. Those precious few who find the Straight and Narrow gate that leads to LIFE are the ones who God will "elect" (Rom 5:28-30).

It is in God's act of justifying the ungodly that repentant believers are saved. They are saved by grace through faith. OBVIOUSLY, faith is the condition through which they are saved by grace. Believing in God is a prerequisite.

And that from the one here whose posts, more than most, project things upon people just for his own pleasure to argue.

That is probably because you don't really understand what faith is. You don't understand what it means to believe in God or how one comes to believe in God.

Where does it say that in the Bible? You are saying that God the Son, only believed but didn't know with absolute certainty, that God the Father would save Him. That doesn't say much about the absolute divinity of Jesus. Jesus was there from the beginning. As God, the Son, He together with God...

The following is from my favorite theologian, Jack Cottrell, and can be found in his book. The Faith Once For All: Bible Doctrine For Today (pp. 455-456). College Press Publishing Company, Inc.. Kindle Edition. REGENERATION The Nature of Regeneration Regeneration is an instantaneous...

This illustrates one of the problems with the concept of monergistic regeneration. For the monergist there is really nothing beyond a "feeling" that one has been regenerated. It is not at all reasonable to think that God would leave such a momentous occurrence up to just a "feeling". Never in...

Is regeneration simply a "gut feeling", a "bright light of understanding"? I don't think so.

In all such passages, Paul intends works of law; believing is a work (John 6:29) but not a work of law. When Paul said that we are saved by grace, not by works, he does not preclude our needing to do something in order to be saved. We must believe (John 6:47).

The question is not whether we are chosen and predestined to become conformed to the image of Jesus Christ, called, justified and glorified. The question that must be answered is what the basis upon which God chooses is. Both Paul and Peter say that basis for God's choosing is His foreknowledge...

The substance and evidence existing previously is God's word. We hear or read from God's word. We believe what it says about God, about Christ, about the gospel and we then believe in God. That is faith. That is the faith that saves. That is the faith through which God justifies and...

You should study up a little and learn what justification is and what it means that it is received by faith. Maybe a little dust up on what faith is would help also.

Interesting comment and so true.

What topic within soteriology does not devolve into a fight between the Calvinists and the non-Calvinists if both participate?

OK.

The general understanding of 2 Corinthians 5:21 is that God made Jesus Christ the sin-offering for us; in a manner similar to the OT practice of the lamb being a sin-offering. With Jesus Christ, He was the perfect sin-offering. Sin wasn't imputed to the lamb in the OT. That would not even have...

Your male nature is to not be monogamous. So have you been unfaithful to your wife (if you are married). Also the male nature is to be sexually active with a variety of females, married or not. So is that the case with you, are you sinful in that? Or is that a nature that you decide whether...

You think the effect of Adam's sin was for everyone. None of that nonsense about all men being limited. Apparently you think, in constrast to the statement in verse 15, that the grace of God and the free gift by the grace of Jesus Christ was not nearly so effective as the sin of Adam. The...

Actually it isn't taught anywhere in the bible. That says what happened to Adam and Eve. It says not one word about any corruption of human nature. Ephesians 2:3 says absolutely nothing about Adam's effect on human nature. Again, all true, but nothing there even suggests that all of that is...

And I surprised you've never understood. All that says is that Adam was the first man to sin and the first to become dead in his sins. It then says that death spread to all men because they sinned. Nothing there says anything about death spreading to all men because Adam sinned. His death...