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Sure, I'll show you a bunch of them. John 12:32 declares that all men are drawn to Christ. John 16:8-11 we see that the ongoing ministry of the Spirit is to convict the entire world of its sin of unbelief (the suppression of truth cf. Rom. 1:18-32). Titus 2:11 clearly states that God's grace...

Amen! But you stopped short: . 8 For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God— 9 not by works, so that no one can boast. 10 For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us...

Only it don't.

It was a joke. you said don't argue, I say "Is Not!" Not funny if I have to explain it! :)

I just don't know any dracionian reptiles or I would ask them for you. Does the red moose fly backward under the full moon while the cow does backflips?

How many other direct contradictions do you believe? It must be difficult to carry around such opposing ideas in one's head. Didn't work for me.

If this were true, no one could know they are saved. If this were true, perhaps we are all being deceived by God and not one of us is saved. What good news! But, the "chosen" are those who have received Christ. We don't have to worry about whether God chose us or not. John 1:12 But as many as...

If we have no choice, then why is Jesus nothing to preach to people who will go wherever they were programmed to go? Of course it says we have a choice, it's all through scripture. 13 “Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and...

He was tossed out because he wasn't clothed in Christ. "I will greatly rejoice in the Lord, my soul shall be joyful in my God; for he hath clothed me with the garments of salvation, he hath covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decketh himself with ornaments, and as a bride...

Sometimes, but not in regard to obedience. God promises that spring and fall and harvest time will never cease until the end. That's not conditional on us. But it also seems that in some sense it was. Because if there had been no Noah to obey and save humanity, would we even exist today? To try...

Not then they didn't. Doesn't mean that they never did. I see no reason to believe that God's drawing is unconditional.

Do not believe me unless I do the works of my Father. 38 But if I do them, even though you do not believe me, believe the works, that you may know and understand that the Father is in me, and I in the Father.” 39 Again they tried to seize him, but he escaped their grasp. 44“No one can come to...

That's silly. We aren't his physical children. But no Jesus didn't get married.

He was telling the Jews this because they had had every opportunity to understand he was the messiah but most didn't see it. You think he was just tormenting them for being destined for hell? No, he was being evangelistic, even if they were too hardened to understand at that time, some would get...

That's an incredibly odd way to read the Bible, and I'm trying to be nice here. It means that basically the verse says that Jesus died not only for us but also for us. The whole world is the whole world.

That's correct. We are all born sinners. But again you are creating a conflict that simply isn't there if a person reads with common sense.

Whose sheep are they then? I think you are taking a parable too literally. They aren't his sheep because they ( the jews) were not taught by the Father. Whose fault was that?

Because they chose not to come.

I don't believe God makes puppets. That's your gig. You are mocking every verse that encourages us to believe or praises faith. Want to hear some? For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: and whosoever will lose his life for my sake shall find it. For whosoever will save his life...

But they choose to be sheep. Or not. 9 I am the gate; whoever enters through me will be saved.