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I'm saying that God receives us over our faith in spite of the fact that it is rooted in selfishness...there is nothing good in us that makes God choose us...however when we believe Him when He says that we are evil and repent (because a part of our depraved nature is that our conscience cannot...

Ain't lyin'... Just look at the course of the conversation in this thread alone and you might see where I obtain my observation of the fact that I speak of.

Yet some of you say that "a man cannot have faith unless he is regenerated first." And it takes time for a plant to produce fruit.

Exactly...and the Lord does not condemn the person for that his faith isn't completely pure and virtuous at the beginning...He is certainly able to purify what is being offered to Him, although it be an imperfect offering. It seems to me that some Calvinists believe what they do because they...

Actually it does teach that; see Jeremiah 17:9.

What I am saying is that you claim superiority for that you think that you don't teach the same "error". You teach it when it suits you; but there is hypocrisy in the works. Total Depravity means that God takes hold of our depravity to get us where we need to be, in order to deliver us from...

I'll take the kjv on Romans 3:24, but even with that interpretation (that you have given in your quote of the verse) it does not change the fact that the gift of grace is through faith (Ephesians 2:8, different emphaisis than what you gave). I see no contradiction between my interpretation of...

Also, you have laid forth a straw man. I do not say, "If you want to get faith, you gotta be selfish!" What I am saying is that, YOU ARE SELFISH and that this does not mean that you cannot come to faith. For a person can come to faith even for selfish reasons; and the Lord will even honour...

What is unscriptural is the concept that you have to be regenerated before you can have faith. The holy scriptures are clear in teaching that we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand.

Don't you teach unconditional election?

Just so you know, I did not bring up this contradiction from the perspective of unbelief. I have already answered it in a previous post (BAPTISM). However, @BreadOfLife 's understanding of epignosis throws a wrench in the works; nevertheless his understanding is not valid so the contradiction...

How do these things reconcile the contradiction in question?

I would say that there is a second benefit (2 Corinthians 1:15) in which a person can be set free from walking according to the flesh. If you compare Romans 2:25-29 with Romans 4:11, I believe that you will see that circumcision represents entire sanctification and that a person can therefore...

Are you suggesting that there is something in us that would make us acceptable before God, and that God would accept us on that basis?

Really, Paul said at one point that one of his goals was to provoke the Jewish people to emulation (that they might be saved) through the witness of Gentile believers that he would win to Christ. Emulations is listed as a work of the flesh in Galatians.

It does answer one of the major reasons why people believe in Calvinism, though, doesn't it? It defeats the concept that God has to regenerate someone before they can have faith, which is very unbiblical. So I think I will stick with it.

I didn't quite say what I said the way the I wanted to say it, so I subsequently deleted it. However, the point that I was making is that with total depravity, a gospel that appeals to the self-centeredness of man would be the only gospel that self-centered man would be able to receive. But...

You are evidently not looking at the same scriptures that I am looking at.