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I have not said that, nor implied that, even once, let alone repeatedly. All I can get out of all of this, is that you really do not understand what it means when the Bible speaks about believing in God. You seem to be all confused about belief, believing, faith, having faith and all such...

Are you saying that Romans 8:16 is a description of regeneration? Seriously?

I have not said one word about the unregenerate mankind having the ability to believe in Christ apart from the power of the Word and Spirit. Once again, you have read into something I wrote that is simply not there. That seems to be a noxious pattern.

You haven't proven anything from Scripture, you have simply stated it. I have not said one word about the foolishness of the spiritually dead regenerating themselves. Again you are reading that gibberish into it. The issue is not who is doing the regenerating. That is God. The issue is who...

I have never said anything about the spiritually dead saving themselves. You have read that nonsense into something that I wrote much like, it seems, you have read nonsense into something the Holy Spirit wrote.

What do you think that means? To whom do you think the Spirit is testifying or bearing witness?

It doesn't appear nonsensical; it is nonsensical. You are saying that we need to have faith in Christ so that we can have faith in Christ. God does not regenerate the unbeliever and then they believe. God regenerates those who believe and have repented. The spiritually dead are not...

That is a nonsensical statement. It is like saying that one must have blond hair to have blond hair. Joh 1:12 (ESV) But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God, We hear, we believe, we repent, we are baptized, our sins are forgiven...

We do not die physically because of anything Adam did. Adam died spiritually when he sinned, when he disobeyed God. He died physically because that was how he was created. He was not created immortal; rather he was created with a mortal physical body. So long as he obeyed, he was allowed to...

First, the spiritually dead do not suffer any particular physical ability. They do not gain any physical abilities when they are born again. Becoming born again, i.e., regenerated, does not produce any sudden increases in intellect or wisdom. Second, there is nothing keeping the Holy Spirit...

To believe in Him is faith. You have somehow for some reason assigned a meaning to the word faith which is simply not biblical. The entire Bible given us by God through the Holy Spirit is everything you need to know to believe in Him, to have faith in Him. That is what Paul said in Romans 10...

Your phrase "obtain fiath in Christ to believe Him" is not a rational phrase. You are assigning a meaning to the word "faith" which is not correct either in English or in Greek. Faith in Christ is belief in Christ. As I noted, both faith and belief are from the same Greek word. That is not...

Perhaps I am missing something, but I see nothing there that says anything about angels not being made in the image of God. I am not saying that angels are made in the image of God, but I haven't seen anything in the scriptures to say they weren't.

Where does it say angels are not made in the image of God?

Only for the human being. Soul for animals defines only the body, there is no spirit as in the spirit of man.

Yes, "faith" is a noun. The Greek noun corresponding to faith is πίστις [pistis] and means assurance, belief, faith, fidelity. We have, in English, the two words faith and belief as nouns. The Greek does not. There is only the single word πίστις [pistis]. The verb form in Greek is πιστεύω...

Going back to the very beginning with the Genesis creation, in verse 20 of chapter 1 we read "And God said, "Let the waters swarm with swarms of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the expanse of the heavens." The word "creature" is translated from the Hebrew word...

"faith to believe in Christ" is a completely irrational concept. To have faith is to believe in Christ. That is what faith is. In Greek they are the same word πίστις [pistis].

Yes, that is true. But that is not the message of OSAS.