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This is an interesting topic. I had it answered to me it was a sign of respect. Yet to examine a bit the word "father" was not used as the verse was actually written in Greek. So then we must decide on whether we are look at the exact word or the meaning behind the word. I tend to rest in...

Context is key in interpretation yet we must keep the full narrative in mind also. Jesus had a forerunner in John the Baptist. Luke speaks of his ministry in this way. 2 during the high priesthood of Annas and Caiaphas, the word of God came to John the son of Zechariah in the wilderness. 3...

"Take this Book of the Law and put it by the side of the ark of the covenant of the LORD your God, that it may be there for a witness against you. - Deuteronomy 31:26 This is one of the last instructions of Moses concerning the Law. We are no longer under the Law including the 10 commandments...

I see this as a false dilemma. God did send His only begotten Son into the world when He took on flesh in the person of Jesus of Nazareth. It is the eternal Logos that became incarnate.

This to me is heresy...the god of the Qur'an is not the God of the Bible... The Church regards with esteem also the Muslims. They adore the one God, living and subsisting in himself; merciful and all-powerful, the Creator of heaven and earth, who has spoken to men; they take pains to submit...

This is taken from the CARM website... it is God who appoints people to believe (Acts 13:48), chooses who is to be holy and blameless (Eph. 1:4), calls according to His purpose (2 Tim. 1:9), chooses us for salvation (2 Thess. 2:13-14), grants the act of believing (Phil. 1:29), grants repentance...

27 for truly in this city there were gathered together against your holy servant Jesus, whom you anointed, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, along with the Gentiles and the peoples of Israel, 28 to do whatever your hand and your plan had predestined to take place. - Acts 4:27-28 I can not see any...

By your own words God dispenses faith. If God is the Giver of faith then He is the measure of election.

I have never argued God creates some for condemnation. People condemn themselves by sinning against a Holy and righteous God. The mercy enters when God pulls some from their selfish desires and changes their heart. Why do you speak of programming? People make choices by their own volition and...

What you are saying is it is not OK for God to have mercy because that would be capricious...I disagree. God elects those who are saved as instruments of mercy. Look to Scripture and not to your philosophical view: What if God, although willing to demonstrate His wrath and to make His power...

In this first section you completely avoided the question of God's election of Israel over the other nations. Now the judge in your scenario did not dispense grace, unmerited favor, rather mercy that was merited through a repentant heart. I say it was God's grace that brought that man to...

So what made you dislike your selfish heart? Do you credit this to God or to yourself? What caused your belief? To me it is easy: only God can change the hearts of men thereby God is credited for salvation and salvation is not merited. Then a side note to the rest of the post: Are you able...

Wormwood and Phoneman777, I am a bit strained for time. The conversation is going well though and I appreciate the progressing tact we are using in this dialogue. Some time will pass before I can generate responses. Thanks in advance for your patience! In the Love of Christ, justaname

If it is man's will to believe God, grace can not be unmerited favor, rather through understanding and believing the gospel we trust God meriting God's favor through our preferable choice. If it is God's will that we receive His gift of grace it is shown that it does not depend on the man that...

None are worthy of grace by the definition of grace: unmerited favor; yet some believe they are just better at making the right choice than others are. Maybe they consider themselves humble. I question if it is their humbleness or did God put this humbleness in their hearts? If it was God...

You avoid the question. You must be better than someone who does not choose to believe God. Scripture teaches: 9 What then? aAre we better than they? Not at all; for we have already charged that both Jews and Greeks are all under sin; 10 as it is written,“THERE IS NONE RIGHTEOUS, NOT EVEN ONE...

What you are teaching is man is the measure by which he comes to God. It is man that is sovereign over his choices and actions. I teach God is sovereign over man's choices and actions while man is still culpable. In your version God is a spectator to man's decisions not the Sovereign. The Bible...

So to be consistent you would have to agree that God choosing every other nation to not be in covenant with Him besides Israel is also capricious. Again what is capricious about God's justice? What is capricious about God's namesake? What is capricious about God's glory? Then who are you to say...

Man's free-will is not sovereign over God, and yes this is what you are arguing. I can easily show time and time again throughout Scripture where God supersedes man's will. The fact that God is sovereign does not negate the fact people choose what they desire. And God saving some from...

Wormwood, I do respect your position, although I side more with Grudem. As you admit it is a stretch of the text, although not a far one, to suggest God makes His decisions based on our future decisions. My reasoning is within these context God's sovereign choice is being stressed against any...