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"Baptismal regeneration" needs to first be defined since it means different things to different people. "Is the doctrine of “baptismal regeneration” scriptural? In order to answer such a question, one first must define precisely what he means by that designation. Exactly what is “baptismal...

The election of Jacob and Israel was not about salvation no more than the non-election of Esau and Edomites was about their condemnation. God can mercy upon whom He chooses to have mercy means God can have mercy upon the Gentiles even thought they were not of the elect and God does not have to...

Men have been commanded to believe, as n Acts of the Apostles 16:31. The imperative given to men to believe implies that man has ability and responsibility to believe. It would make no sense for God command men to believe if men were unable to do so. Those who do choose to believe are then...

What is true for Jacob and Esau would be true for their descendants. If Esau being non-elect mans he will be lost, then it is equally true for his descendants, they are all non-elect and lost also. And if Jacob being elect means his salvation then it is equally true that all his descendants...

Men of their own free will choice choose to have faith or not, so God has no culpability either way.

The context is speaking specifically about Israel, not all of mankind. The verse speaks of Israel..." that are "accustomed" to do evil"... they had lived in sin for so long that sinning became a custom, a habit with them. So Jeremiah is not talking about how they were born but what they become...

I don't see both can be happening at the same time. Like light cannot be off and on at the same time, it must be one or the other. I know God is not culpable for the faithless.

The elect are those who chose to have faith, chose to become Christians and as long as they maintain their faithfulness they will be saved.

This would make God culpable for the impenitent when He is not. Those who are lost are so for their own free will choice in choosing to not repent. Then on judgment day, God will hand them a sentences of eternal condemnation which fits the free will choice those men made not to repent. You...

If man can have faith only as a result of God giving him faith then; 1) such makes God culpable for the faithless/lost when He has no such culpability. Jesus was not fair nor just nor righteous in condemning those who had "little faith" (Matthew 8:26) when Jesus should have criticized God for...

If those in Romans 2 have no ability to choose, then their impenitence must be due to a decree of God. So you have God decree them to be impenitent then God punishing them for their impenitence God forced upon them by decree? That makes God unjust. Post 34 you posted "There are NONE,0, NADA...

They were those who sought the Lord: 2 Chronicles 14:7 2 Chronicles 15:4 2 Chronicles 26:3-5 Psalms 34:4 Ezra 4:2 Ezra 6:21 Zechariah 8:21 Romans 2:3-11 Paul gives a contrast between those who chose not to seek the Lord and those who do choose to seek the Lord. Those who choose not to seek God...

Some of John Calvin's Contradicting Nonsense From the above blog (not my blog) it cites quotes from Calvin. Calvin claims man as no free will but suggests also that man cannot blame God for all things that happen, even evil things, yet claims God has decreed all things that happen. What sense...

There were those who understood the word of God when it was preached to them as the eunuch, those in Acts 2 and Acts 7. David who Paul quoted was one who sought God. So Calvinism has a wrong interpretation of Romans 3 passage. Paul in Romans 1 proves Gentiles are sinners and Romans 2 prove...

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There has never been but one gospel, one faith. Anything other than that one gospel is a false gospel, Galatians 1:6-8. Galatians 1:23 is sufficient proof that Peter and Paul preached the same one gospel. The Apostles met in Jerusalem (Acts 15) to discuss the issue of circumcision and if the...

No denomination is correct. The one church (Ephesians 4:4-5) Christ established (Matthew 16:18) is the only church Christ founded, is the Head of and will come back for some day.

The synergy between God and man is certainly in the Bible. Because Calvinism tries to dismiss many verses (Ezekiel 18:31; Acts of the Apostles 2:40; 1 Timothy 4:16; 2 Corinthians 7:1; James 4:8; 1 Peter 1:22; etc does not take away the synergism. Romans 9 is not a discourse on Calvinism. Paul...

Peter and Paul preached the same one gospel, the same one system of faith (Ephesians 4:5) so Paul would preach the same thing as Peter.....seeing also both men were inspired by the one and only Holy Spirit and the Holy Spirit does not contradict Himself. Galatians 1:23 "But they had heard...

As I have posted this before, being physically dead and spiritually dead are NOT the same things. While the physical dead can do nothing yet the spiritually dead sure can. Those lost, spiritually dead people of Acts 2 was willing, able to listen and understand Peter's message, be pricked in...