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Not a specific sin, no, but he was crystal clear about his remaining proclivity to sin: "For I do not understand my own actions. For I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate. Now if I do what I do not want, I agree with the law, that it is good. So now it is no longer I who do...

I encourage you to use a concordance and do a word search on 'appoint' or 'appointed' ~ both Old Testament and New ~ and... see what you find. In a certain sense, I agree with you, but this appointing is a work of God, not in and of ourselves. I would hope that no Christian believes he or she...

Absolutely, but in this life, a person can be spiritually dead while physically alive. No mere man is was ever or ever will be in this life divinely inspired in the sense of being divine in any way. Jesus, of course, was both fully God and fully man, and this is what qualifies Him as Mediator...

Meh. I don't think that's always the case. But sometimes, maybe. Ahhhh, now. They just misunderstand. Or, maybe they don't want to admit, even to themselves, that they might be mistaken, which... You know, pride is a really, really, really pervasive sin. Many times, yes. But I think...

Goodness gracious, I'm so sorry. <chuckles> Yes, I agree that they're lovely. <biiiiig smile> And I'll just say to all of it what I have said before, that generally speaking, the lesser ~ which was fulfilled long ago (the Israelites of old, who comprised Lesser Israel, returned to Jerusalem)...

To these I would add at least Romans 3:23, Romans 5:12, 1 Corinthians 2:14, and Ephesians 2:3, that "all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God", "sin came into the world through one man, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men because all sinned", "The natural person does...

Yes. Great! Absolutely. Great! This makes us elect of God. Absolutely. Because He chose us. Because we are among His elect. I think... I think you're kind of conflating what is certain to be but not actually effected yet with what has been made to be effective. Absolutely. Sure...

Okay. :) Okay. See above... :) Right, and I disagree. I say He does both... or all three... :) This is not to say that we don't choose, because we certainly do, but only that without His gracious choice (before the foundation of the world) and without Him working in our heart by His...

Well, Replacement theology teaches that the Church now possesses all the promises at the exclusion of the ethnically Jewish people, which, yes, is false. And to really encapsulate most everything you just said and answer to it very succinctly... :) ...to hold to a continued separation of the...

Continued again from above; I think this is the last one, sorry: Right, I agree, but see above. Right, but see above, and to your reference to Romans 10:9-10, verse 10 refers again to the heart, so what I said above about the heart should be sufficient to answer that, and, just a couple of...

Continued from above... Well, believing ~ and repenting... and of course choosing ~ is (are) certainly an act (acts) of the will, absolutely. There can be no doubt about that. We have brains, and we use them to do all these things. :) But what drives that will? Why do you do the things you...

Continued from above... Disagree. We are not actually in Christ until we are born again of the Spirit. Yes, God chose some before the foundation of the world, as Paul says in Ephesians 1:4, and therefore we are members of His elect according to His purpose of election (Romans 9:11) and thus...

Okay. So. :) In answer to this, I'll quote your post 741. I think I'm going to have to split this up; sorry. So to open: Hmmm... Okay, I agree, but Paul is writing a personal letter to groups of Christians, so we know the who, too, right? And he talks about specific groups like God's...

So there's quite a bit in that post, but is this ~ "how do you explain Romans 10:9-10 and Acts 16:31 ?" ~ the only question? Well, two questions, I suppose... Is that right? Grace and peace to you.

You can probably figure it out, if you, you know, actually think about it. :) But, hey, I'm here to help if you like... :) You may possibly already do this ~ understand Scripture as a whole in this way ~ but it seems to me you don't now see Scripture as covenantal ~ and incremental...

For? I reserve the right to... be forgetful... from time to time... :) Grace and peace to you.

Yes. :) Ah, so no longer is there anyone out there who will but have not yet come to Christ.... Hmmm... :) According to Scripture, God's completion of Israel is what will prompt the return of Christ. So, if what you say here is so, then why hasn't Jesus come back yet, and executed the...

You misunderstand. I agree that no promise of God is greater than another in this wooden sense. But rather, "lesser" (in quotes) in that it is not the full manifestation of the one ~ "greater" in this sense, of full manifestation ~ Promise. Consider this: This is covenantal thinking, which is...

Fantastic! This is what Paul exhorts us to specifically in Romans 11:18 ("do not be arrogant toward the branches... remember it is not you who support the Root, but the Root that supports you"), as you understand, I think. Remember what Paul writes to the Philippians, that none of us should...

All the ones that are elect of God. As Paul says, "not all who are descended..." (physically) "...from Israel belong to Israel, ..." (the Israel of God) "...and not all are children of Abraham because they are his..." (physical) "... offspring..." I would disagree that Paul prophesied that all...