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Amen! Well stated!

Adam was given a choice, and had a free will.... he promptly used this free will to sell his and his entire race's souls and wills to the devil rather that follow the command of God. Of course not. God never changes. He is the same from eternity. I pray and petition because I am commanded to...

Of course it grieves me to see my family going through this, but my feelings do not make God's actions unjust. Look at it from God's point of view; a creation he made perfect was warned of the exact consequence of its actions, and then chose to defy God anyways. God is merely fulfilling His...

ok, so please explain how faith does not fit the criteria of a work? If both the definition and your pov can both be valid?

Romans 8:19-22 19 For the creation waits in eager expectation for the children of God to be revealed. 20 For the creation was subjected to frustration, not by its own choice, but by the will of the one who subjected it, in hope 21 that the creation itself will be liberated from its bondage to...

What exactly is faulty about the definition, and how does it contradict the Scriptures. It contradicts your view of the Scriptures, but not mine. This shows a problem with your view, not of the definition nor the Scriptures. You keep quoting a verse that directly contradicts what you are saying...

This is a tricky question. For one thing, I would never know the feeling, because I have been chosen, so in that regard I would say that if I wasn't chosen, I would be in sin and therefore would hate God so no I don't think it would bother me. I can relate to the loved-ones not being chosen...

work noun 1.activity involving mental or physical effort done in order to achieve a purpose or result So explain to me how choosing to have faith does not fit the criteria of a work?

So how can you say that you must do the work of choosing to believe?

Yep. I did see it.... doesn't make what you are saying any more true. And this also doesn't answer the question I have asked over a dozen times and never once had a legitimate answer to: You believe in works righteousness?

see response #204 So you believe in works righteousness?

Not to be rude or brash, but I don't really care about a painting or the one who painted it. For starters, I do not think we should have pictures of Christ to begin with, no graven images and all, but this man was speaking falsehood. If you want a real picture, it should be of Christ kicking...

Yes! And who allows us to hear? Who opens our ears to the truth? The Holy Spirit. The Spirit changes our wills and makes us willing to hear the knock, and makes us willing to sit and eat with Christ. The faith we receive is given to us by the spirit by grace, and thus opens our eyes to the knock...

But of course you have to open the door, which means that it your opening of the door that saves you, not the grace you receive afterwards. This means that it was your work of opening the door that saved you... So you believe in works righteousness?

Here is the problem; God's grace is conditional upon your correct choices, which means that it cannot be the grace that saves you. If you have to choose the grace, then your choice is the root and therefore cause of your salvation, not the grace itself. And faith, by your definition has to be a...

Because this then makes your choice the saving factor in your conversion, not God's grace, which means you believe that your choice is what saves, which is work's righteousness. So this means that you believe in work righteousness?

No problem at all! Thank you for your willingness to actually listen rather than just berate and condemn. I would say generally yes, this is a pretty fair recap, though if I were to explain the reasoning behind this according to Scriptures it is much more solid than I could ever make it sound...

Ok, and then what? They choose whether or not to follow Christ?

We do receive Christ, only after He receives us. Only after he changes our hearts and wills can we even see and accept Him. Verses about Man's Depravity ~ Gen. 6:5 ~ Gen. 8:21 ~ Jer. 17:9 ~ Mark 7:21-23 Verses about our Bondage to Sin ~ Jhn. 8:44 ~ Jhn 8:34 ~ Titus 3:3 Verses about our...

Yes, I do believe that He had salvation before Pentecost.