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Show me even one passage of scripture where God hardened the heart of one who was a faithful follower of God.

Not one of those verses you posted disproves in any way what I said. Clearly every heart you claim God hardened was the heart of a man already set against God.

That is a two-way street. As much as I detest the Calvinist Soteriology and consider it to be so terribly, terribly wrong, I do not believe that the Calvinist/non-Calvinist situation is a wolf/sheep condition.

If you will examine all the instances of God's hardening the hearts of men, you will find that He never hardens the hearts of men who have not hardened their own hearts first.

Yes you could indeed spend a few posts on Romans 6:15-22. And you would get it wrong yet one more time. The key to that passage is in a correct understanding of verse 21, namely what does Paul intend with the talk of the potter's, i.e., God's, "right over the clay" for " honorable use" or...

Be very careful here, my dear friend. You do not have the ability nor the authority to declare whose heart God might be hardening.

In the question of sin, there is only two choices, to obey or not to obey. If you are not free to obey, then there is no other choice but to disobey. That is not "free" in any sense. Given the two choices, if you can't choose one, for whatever reason, then doing the other is not a choice. You...

Both Esau and Pharoah were chosen vessels. Not only is the Calvin version of double predestination not taught in the scriptures, the Calvin version of single predestination is not even taught in the scriptures.

And so arose the false teachings of Calvin. The absolute worst of it being the teaching of Total Depravity. That doctrine makes God the author of all sin.

It is never even mentioned in the OT. There is nothing ever said about a new man within us in the OT. Regeneration is strictly a NT doctrine. Says the one who believes in the false doctrine of Total Depravity. There is nothing in the Bible that says that.

It is a living spiritual rebirth.

Nothing there says anything about Jacob being predestined to heaven or Esau and Pharoah being predestined to hell. That entire passage is speaking about how God has used them in their lives, not where they ended up going in their next life. In fact verse 12, "The elder shall serve the...

Yes I agree, water baptism is a NT doctrine only. But then so is regeneration. Regeneration is a NT doctrine only. And both are then only for those who are old enough to make a full heart commitment to the religion of Jesus Christ. However that changes nothing of what I said.

I certainly do not understand you. I don't know how anyone could be so confused about so much. I am curious. You don't have to answer if you don't want to. But do you associate with any assembly, congregation or church on a regular basis? Do you study God's word with anyone else? Does anyone...

It is what you posted.

No, Paul is speaking to the believers in Rome: Rom 1:7 To all those in Rome who are loved by God and called to be saints: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. It is speaking about unbelievers. Paul is saying that they can know about God: Rom 1:19 For what...

You don't even understand yourself. You posted the following. 1 In the past you were spiritually dead because of your disobedience and sins. That specifies the reason you were spiritually dead. You were spiritually dead, not because God gave you a dead spirit, not because you were...

Rom 1:18 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who by their unrighteousness suppress the truth. Rom 1:19 For what can be known about God is plain to them, because God has shown it to them.

Our spirits come from God (Eccl 12:7; Zech 12:1). We were born of the Spirit from birth (or as I believe at conception). We were not born spiritually dead. The very idea that God would form in us a spirit dead at the outset is absolutely hateful of God. We become dead in trespasses and sins...

And yet you still have not shown us even one example where Jesus had or needed to have faith. i.e., to believe in God. I think I have mentioned before that in the 11th chapter of Hebrews, called the Bible's faith chapter, we have example after example of the results of the faith of many of the...