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The bible says you were born again? Where does it say that?

I am not an Arminian. I am a Christian. And I am a non-Calvinist. It is the Calvinist with the very low view of God. They posit that He has created billions of human beings for the sole purpose of sending them straight to hell. I don't say that at all. You make up stuff I say just like you...

The elephant in the room is Calvin. What you, and others who believe falsely as you do, fail to understand is that if God has preselected some for salvation, based solely upon His own sovereign will, then there is absolutely no need whatsoever of all those not selected to even have existed. Do...

We are saved by grace through faith. We stay saved by grace through faith. And the saved are no less required to obey God's law than are the unsaved. We are not under the law for salvation, but we are under the law for living the Christian life.

You didn't answer my question. I am not sure why. Perhaps you don't really know the answer, or you don't like the answer and don't want to state it. You have a body; it came from your parents. You have a spirit; that didn't come from your parents. Flesh does not beget spirit. So then, where...

So you do not think your spirit comes from God. Interesting. Who else to you think as the power to make, form or create our spirits? Did you not have a spirit before being born again?

Was the teaching of the disciples directly by Jesus Christ not the revelation of Jesus Christ?

Yes, of course, Spirit gives birth to spirit. Who is without a spirit? The spirit of man is what separates him from the whole rest of the animal kingdom. Everyone has a spirit. Everyone gets born with a spirit. That spirit is from God.

Yes, of course, but on what basis did He choose His elect? Try reading and understanding 1 Peter 1:1-2.

Yes, ritajanice, that is in the ESV, the NASB, etc., etc. So why did you bother to copy it here? What do you think it all means in the context of the discussion at hand?

The common translation/interpretation of Acts 13:48 is wrong. First the statement that they were appointed to eternal life stands in direct contrast and conflict with verse 46 where the blaspheming Jews "judged themselves" i.e., decided for themselves to reject eternal life. So how can that...

You are proclaiming is that God is incapable of effectively communicating with the unregenerate. Either that or God intentionally chooses to not effectively communicate with the unregenerate. In that case, there can be no blame attached to the unregenerate for the failure to obey God. The...

The "natural man" in 1 Corinthians 2:14 is in contrast to the divinely inspired (spiritual) man, i.e., apostles and prophets. The entire chapter, chapter 2 of 1 Corinthians is Paul's statement and defense of his, and the apostles, divine inspiration. Sorry, Pinseeker, you are only a natural...

Those two statements are incompatible. The condition of dead in sin is a condition of the spirit. That condition cannot be passed down from parent to child -- Spirit, not flesh, begets spirit. The spirit of man comes from God (Zech 12:1; Eccl 12:7); it does not come from flesh, i.e., from...

I think Hebrews 4:3 is in reference back to the creation event itself and God's resting on the seventh day from all His work of creation and really do not relate to the problem at hand. Heb 4:3 For we who have believed enter that rest, just as He has said, "AS I SWORE IN MY WRATH, THEY SHALL...

Forgive me, but I think you are being misled by the KJV, perhaps in its old world version of English. (NASB) Rev 13:8 All who dwell on the earth will worship him, everyone whose name has not been written from the foundation of the world in the book of life of the Lamb who has been slain...

Where does Scripture tell us that Christ is the Lamb slain before creation?

God said that of "all He had made" (Gen 1;31). And yes, all that He had made was very good, including His prime creation, man. It is important to understand that everything, including man and everything about him, was just as God intended. This "sinful flesh" that you have such distain for is...

Maybe it is mostly your language that is confused. Peace!

Rom 9:6 But it is not as though the word of God has failed. For they are not all Israel who are descended from Israel;