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Post #6 (near the end)

Of course it does. Reread the opening posts. More technically correct would be to say that Genesis 1-4 and “Calvinism” both affirm the same Biblical truth about the sinfulness of man and the sovereignty of God.

Man always exercises his free will to choose to reject God. See Romans 1 for a discussion on this topic. God causes all things to work together for those called according to HIS purpose. God foreknows and God predestines and God calls and God justifies and God glorifies. [Rom 8:28-30] God...

Please address this: John 3:20 "For everyone practicing evil hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his deeds should be exposed. Note that people hate light of their own free will because they have sinned People choose not to come to the light of their own free will because they...

Good questions ... [John 6:43-51 NKJV] 43 Jesus therefore answered and said to them, "Do not murmur among yourselves. 44 "No one can come to Me unless the Father who sent Me draws him; and I will raise him up at the last day. 45 "It is written in the prophets, 'And they shall all be taught by...

Perhaps. Clearly when one perceives “the Light” they make a free will choice. However note the next few verses carefully ... [John 3:18-21 NKJV] 18 "He who believes in Him is not condemned; but he who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only...

John 6:44 states that all those DRAWN will also be raised, so if you advocate “all people without exception are drawn” then how do you not embrace the unbiblical “universal salvation of all people without exception”? To answer your question ... [Revelation 5:9 NASB] 9 And they sang a new song...

Your comment indicates that you did not read my opening post. First, of course people have free will and are not some sort of automatons. They exercise their free will all the time. However, people do not choose to do things contrary to their nature ... people of sound mind do not choose to...

These are serious charges you throw so casually at me. I suggest you might want to ponder the motto of the Moravian Church when attempting to converse with other Christians: In essentials unity. In non-essentials liberty. In all things charity. With respect to your actual statement that...

Neither is “Trinity”. So what was your point?

Here is an answer: Total Inability: Genesis 1-4

GENESIS 4: [Genesis 4:6-7 NASB] 6 Then the LORD said to Cain, "Why are you angry? And why has your countenance fallen? 7 "If you do well, will not [your countenance] be lifted up? And if you do not do well, sin is crouching at the door; and its desire is for you, but you must master it."...

GENESIS 3: [Genesis 3:1 NASB] 1 Now the serpent was more crafty than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said to the woman, "Indeed, has God said, 'You shall not eat from any tree of the garden'?" Observation: Wherever you go, temptation will find you … even in...

GENESIS 2: [Genesis 2:8-9 NASB] 8 The LORD God planted a garden toward the east, in Eden; and there He placed the man whom He had formed. 9 Out of the ground the LORD God caused to grow every tree that is pleasing to the sight and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the...

THE TOPIC: We are (T)otally Incapable of choosing God on our own because sin causes us to always flee from God. Since this is very well trodden soil, I would prefer to pass on repeating the same old “proof texts”, arguments and counter arguments and approach this from a less travelled...

Funny that you should ask THAT particular question. I just finished a “wall of text” post discussing that exact issue ... Total Inability (aka Total Depravity) from Genesis 1 to 4. Someone challenged me to defend the “T” of TULIP and I didn’t want to just rehash the same old proof-texts, so I...

Sometimes I am around. It is just hard to find a topic that I really want to jump into. Lately I have been chatting with the “Paul is not a real Apostle” tinfoil hat crowd at CARM. One doesn’t expect much from them. After almost 1200 posts, you will either need to give me the number of the post...

At what age does a person obey the Law that leads to righteousness without needing to place their trust in the righteousness of Jesus Christ to cover their failure to fully live up to the standards of a Holy God? [Matthew 22:37-40 NLT] 37 Jesus replied, "'You must love the LORD your God with...

[John 3:1-21 NLT] 1 There was a man named Nicodemus, a Jewish religious leader who was a Pharisee. 2 After dark one evening, he came to speak with Jesus. "Rabbi," he said, "we all know that God has sent you to teach us. Your miraculous signs are evidence that God is with you." 3 Jesus replied...

Balderdash. [John 3:16-18 NASB] 16 "For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life. 17 "For God did not send the Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world might be saved through Him. 18 "He who...