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The "natural man" is not a totally depraved person, but is able to understand God's word. Those Stephen preached to in Acts 7 were natural men but they certainly understood Stephen's sermon. They did not kill Stephen because they could not understand but because they DID understand and hated...

Some men do not seek after God but that does not mean they are unable to, they simply choose not to. Depends on how men set their hearts (1 Chronicles 22:19; Psalms 78:8) if they seek God or not.

The one system of faith as taught in the Bible is the only correct one. People will never agree over what the one faith teaches so each person must decide what he will believe and then have to answer for it on judgment day. God's word is truth and truth never contradicts itself. John 17:17...

salvation is not possible apart from Christ's doctrine/teaching/gospel. When Paul penned his Ephesian epistle, to bring unity to that congregation he speaks of seven ones that make up the foundation of Christianity. Of those ones Paul said there is ONE faith and ONE body/church (body is the...

....but if a person can be saved apart from Calvinism's tenets, as you already said one could post 63, then Calvinism cannot be the gospel for the gospel is what saves, Romans 1:16. Can one be doctrinally wrong, yet still saved? No, 2 John 1:9-10

Then Calvinism is not necessary, essential or part of God's plan of salvation. Can one be saved apart from the gospel? no Then Calvinism is NOT the gospel.

Can non-Calvinists, those who do not believe in TULIP, be saved?

Many versions render the verse "save yourselves" and nothing is wrong with how they translated Acts 2:40. The context: the Jews Peter preached to were lost, Peter convicted them of the sin of crucifying the Messiah. His message pricked their hearts prompting them to ask 'what shall we do'...

I understand the OT law has been taken out of the way. Yet the OT (in this case Ezekiel 11:19) has been used for a long time as an attempt to "prove" Calvinistic monergism where one can have an new hear and spirit only if given to one by God. I simply used the OT to refute that Calvinistic...

No one could ever find God if they did not have an initial, beginning point. All men across the earth are to seek God Acts 17:27. The mistake some make is wrongly assuming man is too depraved and unable to seek God unless God first acts upon a person "regenerating" that person. The eunuch of...

Men have been commanded to seek God (Isaiah 55:6) men have ability and accountability to seek God (Acts of the Apostles 17:27) and men did seek God (Psalms 34:4). If man does not have the ability to seek God then the commands are meaningless and the accountability unjust.

Those verse clearly do show man has a role in his own salvation. Those verse would make no sense at all if man has no role in his own salvation. Those in Acts 2 were lost in their unremitted/unforgiven sins. No reason to give the imperative "save yourselves" if man cannot possible obey such an...

Ezekiel 18:31 definitively shows man has a role in his own salvation, a role in receiving a new heart and spirit from God. So there is no Calvinistic monergism..Ezekiel 18:31 God would give every one a new heart and spirit or else God is causing Himself displeasure which makes no sense. Yet God...

The Bible is very clear man has a role in his own salvation: Acts of the Apostles 2:40 Save yourselves 1 Timothy 4:16 save thyself 2 Corinthians cleansed ourselves 1 Peter 3:22 you purified your souls James 4:8, draw nigh to God, cleanse your hands, purify your heart Of course man cannot save...

The Bible is very clear that obedience to God's will does save, numerous verses put obedience before salvation. There is no example of the Bible ever saying obedience earns God's free gift of salvation nor is there is any example of God saving the unrighteous, disobedient, rebellious person...

Not a single verse says the gift of salvation is UNconditional. "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life." John 3:16 belief is a condition that must be met in order to have salvation. The...

Since a continued walking in the light cleanses away all the Christians sins, (1 John 1:7) then God does not see the Christian as a sinner but as a 'clean' righteous person.

Ezekiel does not contradict himself. If one takes both verses in God saying He will give them a new heart and spirit and then God telling them to make them a new heart and spirit then the only conclusion that can accurately be made is BOTH God and man have a role in man having a new heart and...

Whether one serves sin unto death or obedience unto righteousness (Romans 6:16) is a free will choice, no one is born with a sin nature, totally depraved that forces one to choose to serve sin unto death. Again, if one is born totally depraved he has no free will but forced by that nature to do...

Reading it for what it says, it says they were not of us at the time they went out from us. It does not say they were never of us when they went out from us. Big difference there. "Such a verse as this, (1 John 2:19) of course, is made use of as a crutch for the proposition that a person...