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It is; we disagree on that. This is a rhetorical question, but let me just pose this question to you. If the promise is for us and our children ~ it is, according to Peter in Acts 2, as I pointed out, and he specifies no "eligible" age... his silence on that speaks volumes ~ then what "age of...

Well, right, in the case of never having been previously baptized. But as Peter says in Acts 2, the promise is for people of all ages... In Acts 2, in response to the hearers' question, "Brothers, what shall we do?" regarding what the apostles were saying, Peter said to them, "Repent and be...

So, in short, what you are and this article is saying here is that John Calvin closely adhered to Paul's exhortations in Romans 13 to "be subject to the governing authorities..." and, even in the case of Servetus, exhorted others to do the same... You know, as a pastor should... Hmmm...

Yes, I'm well aware of that, but since you don't know, Jesus was also speaking to us as we are His also. <smile> God did so, for sure, all His disciples ~ His Elect, of which presumably you are too, but assuredly I am, one. Now, as for the apostles, yes, they were specially chosen and served...

It is. The knowing is active, not passive, and knowing in the sense of both choosing and loving, and it fits perfectly with what Jesus said to His disciples and by extension to us in John 15:16 ~ "you did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit..." ~...

<chuckles> HAHAHA! Now that's funny. Ohhhh, there it is again... "...still a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest..." <smile> In part, yes... Yes, please "proceed." <smile> You mean as if I didn't or haven't? <smile> Hmmm, even though Paul explicitly says, in...

Hmmm... well in a sense ~ the one in which we are now being saved ~ that's correct. But in the sense that we have been saved not so much... and if you need some Scriptural references here, I'll just point out two that I've pointed out several times before (though you say I haven't): "Blessed...

LOL. Maybe your eyes are closed... <smile> Grace and peace to you, GodsGrace.

I think Dan probably meant something more along the lines of "cause." Works ~ and here I would add (and Dan would probably agree) that the work of belief is included ~ are not the cause of faith/salvation. To a bunch of Jewish unbelievers, He said, in John 10, "...you do not believe because...

That's too bad; they can be very helpful. Again, no offense, but this seems a very closed-minded thing to say... So do I... The problem is (at least in certain instances) what someone thinks the Bible states, and/or not fully understanding what the Bible states. It does, and I addressed that...

God is not the author of sin. Do you not understand that we have a dual nature? In other words, our "old man," as Paul calls it, is still with us, even as we are a new creation in Christ. This is why Paul exhorts us to "put off the old man and put on the new." This is what we call "the...

<chuckles> Maybe you think some of us are more powerful than God... <smile> To be saved and to come to knowledge of the truth, yes, 1 Timothy 2:4... know it well... <smile> Sure. I understand the... pointedness... of your question, but... Okay, let me just pose you, personally, this...

Hmmmm... Yes, reading Hebrews 11 would be good... <smile> I'm not really disagreeing, SW, but wouldn't it be more appropriate to consider the faith we have as a motivator, per se? I mean, we have this assurance from God, and the Spirit convicts us of these things not seen, and we are...

God is... a bit... more powerful than any of us. <smile> No, He will. <smile> Right, Philippians 2:13; I pointed that out. Again, though, why can we work out our salvation? Well, because it is God Who is working in us to will and work according to His good pleasure. Think about it...

God grows us toward holiness through a lot of different means, and one is marriage. This is part of what Paul is saying in 1 Corinthians 7:14... "the unbelieving husband is made holy because of his wife, and the unbelieving wife is made holy because of her husband." And in Ephesians 5:31-32...

Good. <smile> If God has begun a good work in us, He will bring it to completion at the day of Christ (Philippians 1:6). Not 'might,' God's grace, but 'will' ... He WILL bring it to completion at the day of Christ. Yeah that's kind of a clumsy way to put it, really. It is inevitable that we...

<chuckles> We make... good (God-pleasing) choices... with regard to works ~ and do them ~ because we have been born again of the Spirit and thus have this new heart and this salvific faith, which, again, is God's assurance of our salvation and conviction by the Holy Spirit. It might click with...

<chuckles> It is, and it's not ~ in two different senses. Again, we are saved, and we are being saved at the same time. In the former, it's that we have received God's mercy and compassion, and have thus been born again of the Spirit of God... through faith, as Paul says in Ephesians 2. In...

Not "dear," but PinSeeker. :) Or, just a 'yes' would do... :) Well yes, if we didn't believe, that would certainly be outward evidence, both to us and to others, that we don't have God's assurance of things hoped for or conviction by the Holy Spirit of things unseen. Sure. But good works...

There's nothing wrong with that, as long as one does not understand them to be one and the same thing, and that belief is a result of faith ~ God's assurance and conviction by the Spirit. Grace and peace.