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When and how do you think they were quickened?

Just so that I understand you, you think Acts 2:37, not Acts 2:38, describes regeneration? You think that to be pricked in their hearts is to be born again, i.e., regeneration?

If by quickened, you mean regeneration then you are incorrect. Having sins forgiven and being given the gift of the Holy Spirit is regeneration. The way to obtain that, as given by Peter in Acts 2:38, is for the believing sinner to repent and be baptized. Think what you want about water...

I believe that as well; the Holy Spirit is involved before during and after regeneration. The question is how the Holy Spirit is involved before regeneration. I believe except in very isolated cases, the Holy Spirit is involved through the inspiration of the written word of God, through which...

You have that backward. One first hears the word; he then understands the word; he then believes in God. He then receives the Holy Spirit in regeneration. It is the one who hears, understands and then believes that is born again. Faith comes before being born again, not after. That is...

I know believing is not a work of the law; however, it is indeed something that we do but it is not a work of the law. But you were the one who inserted the parenthesis making something that we do a work of the law and believing is something that we do. That is a common mistake. It is the...

So then, you are free to covet, to steal, to murder, i.e., all the things forbidden by the law? I don't think so. I would note that there is a reason for the words εἰς δικαιοσύνην [unto righteousness]. We are not under the law as a way of salvation, but we are still under full obligation to...

So then according to your rewording of Galatians 3:2 faith comes by works of the law (something we do). I think you are misreading Paul.

Amen! Paul said much the same thing about himself. Rom 7:19 For I do not do the good I want, but the evil I do not want is what I keep on doing. Rom 7:20 Now if I do what I do not want, it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells within me. Rom 7:21 So I find it to be a law that when...

To be under the law does not mean that we are not to obey God's law; it only means that the law is not the path to the righteousness necessary to enter the kingdom of God. There is much of the law that is repeated throughout the NT that we are called to obey. Obedience continues to be a major...

Is hearing and believing something that we do?

Not quite true. It does not say in Colossians 2:14 that the law was nailed to the cross; rather, it says the record of debt (ESV), the handwriting of ordinances (KJV), certificate of debt (NASB), charge of our legal indebtedness (NIV) was nailed to the cross. All of these point, not to the...

Of course they can't be separated; they are the same thing. There is no such thing as an unbeliever having faith. That is an oxymoron.

The proof is in the meaning of the words. There are not two different words in the Greek. The difference is an English nuance.

I wasn't talking to you. And I went back and deleted my last reply to you. I failed to recognize that it was you that I replied to. Sorry, but I have no interest in any interchange with you.

You did it again. We don't believe through faith. Believing in God, in the word of God (the gospel), is faith. Faith in God is believing in God. So long as you refuse to acknowledge and understand that really very simple fact, you will continue to be confused about all things soteriological.

And yet he is speaking to Christians, believers, saints: 1Co 1:1 Paul, called as an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, and Sosthenes our brother, 1Co 1:2 To the church of God which is at Corinth, to those who have been sanctified in Christ Jesus, saints by calling, with all who in...

Romans 12, particularly verses 1-8, is speaking of gifts from God, In verse three, it is not faith that is being measured. Rather it is the gifts from God that are given in a measure consistent with faith. You can see that by reading further. For example, in verses 6-8: Rom 12:6 Since we...

Rom 10:17 So faith comes from hearing, and hearing through the word of Christ. Therefore, faith comes from preaching of others and, for many today with ready access of Bibles, from reading the Bible. There is in the Bible all the information and data that anyone needs to be convinced of the...

How many times are you going to repeat that nonsense. Faith in God is belief in God. To have faith in God is believing in God. They are one and the same. There is no difference. They are the same word in the Greek.