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Well now, neither verse 13 nor verse 14 says what you are positing here. However verse 14 certainly says that Calvinism is wrong when it says that regeneration is required first before one can believe. It says specifically that we "receive the promise of the Spirit through faith." That is...

It is not those who are elect who become saved; rather it is those who are saved that become the elect (Rom 8:28-30).

Where does He say that? The truth is that He doesn't say that anywhere. What he says, through the apostle Paul by the Holy Spirit, is Gal 3:14 so that in Christ Jesus the blessing of Abraham might come to the Gentiles, so that we might receive the promised Spirit through faith.

I agree with those definitions. But it has everything to do with the decisions of the redeemed. Clearly you have the wrong definition of the word eklektos. The elect are those who have been freed, not vice versa. And yes, those who have been freed depends upon their decision to accept the...

Suppose your child is taken and held for ransom and you pay the ransom. If your child is 18 years old and decides, for whatever reason, not to come home, that doesn't mean the ransom was not paid. So yes, Christ paid the ransom for all. But some have decided not to "come home".

Announce away to your hearts content, but that has absolutely nothing to do with Christian baptism.

That was not me. I do not believe in infant baptism, I never did and I certainly didn't have my sons baptzed as infants.

AMEN! But there are faith restrictions. One needs to believe in God. One needs to confess. One needs to submit. One needs to choose.

I see nothing wrong with a Christian family showing God that they are going to try to raise their child to love Him. But that is not the stated purpose of baptism in the name of Jesus Christ. You trivialize the significance and importance of baptism if you claim that as a purpose.

It was issued as a command. Peter said, "Repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ ...." Tell me, what did you do to respond to that command? Just curious. Paul also told us about the twelve Ephesians. He said, "On hearing this, they were baptized in the name of the...

Christ obtained eternal redemption for the world. Joh 3:16 "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. Joh 3:17 For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world...

Paul was a persecutor of the Christians before he converted. Do you think we should follow that example also? Perhaps you do. After all, the Catholic Church did indeed persecute those they thought were not a "Catholic Christian". Also while Smyrna is indeed mentioned in Revelation, there is...

It doesn't say anywhere that believers were saved before they became believers. Jesus obtained redemption for the whole world. But it is only believers who benefits from that. It never speaks of salvation of non-believers. The redemption is in the ransom paid. That ransom covers any who...

They like all repentant believers who are baptized in the name of Jesus Christ received forgiveness and the gift of the indwelling Holy Spirit. What the didn't received until the apostles journeyed to Samaria and laid hands on them was the power by the Holy Spirit to work miracles. That power...

Why would I take it up with Polycarp? And John didn't support infant baptism in any of his writings so there is nothing to take up with John.

To be spiritually born again, one must have been spiritually born at least once already..

Obviously, more than you. No one, either then or now ever refers to physical birth as being born of water. But not being mushc of a student, you wouldn't 'tknow that. Mine is not a Catholic theology, but yours is a Zwinglian theology. But Jesus is not talking about being born again...

Sorry, but that is all a load of crap. All of your explanation there makes a mockery of Jesus' words to Nicodemus. Neither then nor now has "born of water" ever been a euphemism for physical birth. Moreove, Jesus would never have made being born physically a requirement for anything. Such a...

Born again means that whatever is to be born again had been born previously. What was that? And how and when did that happen?

Where in the teachings of any of the various denominations, Catholic or Protestant, that practice "infant baptism" do we ever find the need for Christian baptism "at a much later age" that the individual must complete on their won. Where do we read in the NT that it is in "confirmation" that...