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You're welcome; thank you for yours. Yes, you have. Fair enough. Yes, positional in the sense that at that point we are in Christ, raised with Him, and seated with Him in the heavenly places, as this same Paul says in Ephesians 2, after formerly being dead in our sin. Paul says the same...

No, you just don't like what I said about what you did say and the outworking of that. And that's fair. I mean, I wasn't trying to offend you; never would I do that. But... it is what it is. Anything you want to, yes. You're your own person. <smile> No buts... The faith of a mustard seed...

Not necessarily, no. You will probably agree with at least this, that it is possible to know what the Bible says, and even understand it very well, and even know all about the Gospel and about Jesus... have a mere intellectual knowledge of the truth... but that does not necessarily indicate a...

Well, the consequence of that sin, not the sin itself, right? Meaning, we are not guilty of Adam's particular sin, his deliberate disobeying of God, but the consequence of that, which is the sinful nature, the deadness in sin, which is synonymous with "at enmity with God," and thus the same...

If they don't believe in Jesus, they don't believe God, and therefore are not like Abraham in that Abraham believed God, and therefore do not have the righteousness credited to them as Abraham did. They're father is the devil, and not God, as Jesus told the Jews He was speaking to in John 8 and...

...what you say. Yes, I do. Because it ~ as well as the others I have cited ~ do. No, and I'm not; I couldn't do this even if I wanted to. Your intentions are certainly your own, as mine are mine. You do know what 'essentially' means, right? I used that word in reference to what you said...

Sigh. <smile> Same as above. This is exactly what the writer of Hebrews is saying there, that this would call into question whether we are Christians or not. It is certainly possible to have knowledge of the truth but yet not believe it, not live it. Well, very good, buuuuuut... <smile>...

Oh, I understand what you think it to be saying very well. <smile> We disagree. I do. <smile> Thanks be to God. <smile> Well, I know very well that you've said that many times, but no, that that verse (Philippians 2:13) illustrates very clearly a cause-and-effect relationship, the effect...

Now, this is not directly related, but very similar in a certain way, and I'll explain why: Think of evangelism, SI. Paul says "So faith comes from hearing, and hearing through the word of Christ" (Romans 10:17). And again, faith, by definition, is the gift of God, assurance given by God...

There is no "cooperation with the Holy Spirit" in God's work of salvation. We are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them., just as Paul says in Ephesians 2:9-10. No, but I do think along the same lines as Paul and...

I will say this, just to your citation of Romans 7 and verses 7 to 9, specifically. Just so I don't, uh, leave ya hangin'... <smile> Paul is speaking of himself and his relationship with God before he actually sinned. The prohibition against coveting stimulated the desire in him to sin ~...

You apparently don't even understand your own view, SI. That's the point. But you do say we manufacture our own faith, which is to say, then, that the person responsible for giving you the assurance of things hoped for and the conviction of things not seen is you yourself. ...is so absolutely...

He was chosen to further God's purpose in the way that he did. That has nothing to do with being chosen to receive salvation or not. Not so; again, the two have nothing to do with each other. God used Judas (among many others) to play a part in His purpose of sending Jesus to the cross, and...

It is. We disagree, of course. Yes, it is, I agree. But what we disagree on is the sense, the nature of these things. It's all real, for sure. I absolutely, totally agree, as all Amillennialists worth their salt would, but Satan can do nothing without the permission of God Himself, without...

No one deserves His mercy and compassion. No one. Everyone falls short of the glory of God. But, He has mercy and compassion on some, but not others. Why, well, Paul tells us... God, desired, from all eternity, to show His wrath and to make known His power. So He endures with much patience...

In John 15:16, Jesus ~ Who is God, of course ~ says, "You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit and that your fruit should abide..." In Ephesians 2:8-10, Paul says of all of us who have been born again of the Spirit, "...by grace you have been...

What you said would mean everyone is saved. You said, "The elect includes all of Adam and Eve's offspring." And obviously, God's elect are the ones who are saved. Adam was the federal head of the human race, Timtofly, and Eve was the mother of all the living (Genesis 3:20). They were the...

Disagree. Disagree. That would be everyone, and would mean God has mercy and compassion not on those whom He will but on everyone, which would mean everyone is saved. And that, unfortunately, is not true. God has made some for honorable use, and some for dishonorable use, and this is...

The wheels on the bus go round and round... <smile> Right, but the Holy Spirit is the One Who leads us to do so, as I said, and this is the will of the Father. He does not lead everyone to do so; again, as Paul says in Romans 1... just a few sentences before Romans 2:4... God has given them...

Yes, He was. If you read what Paul says of everyone who is born again of the Spirit ~ yeeeeees yes, I know you have read it before... LOL! ~ you will see that what Paul says mirrors intimately what Jesus said to His disciples in John 15. You and I are both among Jesus's disciples. We're not...