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I do know it. I'm asking what you are referring to about Cornelius, which you have not answered. I can't discuss an issue you have not made clear.

To not be able to see and believe because God made you born incapable of doing so, is the issue. Being made hard to punish you for rebellion is another thing entirely. You can't rebel against what you are incapable of receiving. But if you indeed are capable and have the same chance as the one...

Not quite. I do believe others will not be saved because they didn't respond to God, but my salvation was not of my will. I can't will myself to do the impossible, for example, I can not flap my arms and fly, but I can choose to depend on an airplane to carry my into the sky. And in a similar...

You are believing a contradiction. That's your choice, but it's not Biblical. If some are chosen for eternal life any choice they make in that regard is logically already made for them before they were ever concieved...so it is in fact, forced on them.

Lol, this is absurd. Yes, those who call on the Lord are believers, because they have chosen to believe! You just can't get it into your head that belief isn't irresistably imposed on us, can you?

Why would God preserving those who are faithful to him go against my belief? God blesses the faithful, as I said. Doesn't mean they are always given an easy path, but God will not abondon those who are faithful to cling to him. And as I said before, Paul says they were not hardend to the point...

Yes, Go figure. You claim a totally illogical position and then try to defend it by making God scizophenic. If they were not chosen for salvaton and God gives them a blindness besides that, you can't turn around and say God did not cause them to be against him. That's ludicrous. God giving...

Another put down. I've read Acts 10 many times. Perhaps if you made your point instead of making vague statements?

Of course I can. He who says he has not sin is a liar.

Oh, my! The " you just don't understand my theology." Put down. Lol, I'm pretty sure I've studied Calvinism more than most Calvinists. And the more I looked into it, the more I found that contradicts scripture.

Do you believe you were chosen and others were not? Why? Perhaps you only think you are chosen if that's the case.

You have no answer here. Yes, you do claim man has no will of his own in regards to salvation, but God must force salvation. It's the spiritual rape version of salvation, not found in scripture.

This just confirms what I already said. Belief first then salvation. You don't get regenerated to belief. You believe and thiare regenerated.

It's God blessing those who are faithful to him. For the purpose of this discussion, what is important is that the others who were hardened are still capable of being saved. The remnant are the currently elect, but the currently hardened can join the elect by trusting in Jesus as Messiah.

I mean not chosen for salvation.

This makes no sense. Did the Ninevites know God? Yet once they heard about him they humbled themselves. You're denying we can do what scripture says we can: "whoever exalts himself shall be humbled; and whoever humbles himself shall be exalted." "The reward of humility and the fear of the Lord...

How does this answer the question? Why would he convict people who could not be saved? That's like throwing pearls before swine. God convicts all because all are offered salvation.

Of course the grace of of God brings salvation, but not all accept his grace, although it is freely offered to all, as the Titus verse says. Willing that none should perish means just that, and trying to limit it to Paul's audience is absurd. You would have to suppose that only the ones who...

See, I don't know for sure on that verse, but I have opinions. If the theologians can't agree on it, it's obviously a difficult one to interpret. But we do know: God always kept for Himself a faithful remnant—those who trusted in Him and who would not bow the knee to Baal (1 Kings 19:18). This...

I do. It's simple. God seeks for whoever will respond. He offers salvation to all. We are not capable of saving ourselves, that is correct, but we certainly have to be able to respond, or all the commands to obey or follow are gibberish. Remember Cornelius? He was actively seeking God although...