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Because any scripture quoted out of context is just a pretext. ... and quoting a verse as a jumping off point to a wall of personal opinion not supported by the scripture quoted is an Olympic event among some Synergists around here.

I don’t think that I dislike answering you. I think we tend to talk past one another, so our conversations are not very productive, but I have nothing against communicating with you. Where does scripture say that? What about ... [John 15:16, 19 NASB] 16 "You did not choose Me but I chose you...

Really? Like this .. Your troll colors are showing, sir. You freely make insulting accusations but then run behind a false moral high ground when asked to put up or shut up.

I noticed that you moved the goal posts. That is not the sign of an honest conversation. You quoted, and I called you on Galatians 5:18 ... [Gal 5:18 NASB] 18 But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the Law. YOU claimed that this verse was about men CHOOSING to obey the Spirit...

If we do not listen to the Holy Spirit and we do not do what He shows us and we do not follow Christ ... then we are not “of His sheep”. Who cares if the damned do not obey Jesus? Isn’t that what makes them damned in the first place? (John 3:18) That is not a warning for His sheep, that is a...

DAVE chose to quote Galatians 5:18. I just called him on his imaginative reading of what Paul actually said. Why don’t YOU quote Galatians 5:18 and provide an exegesis of what the text SAYS and what it MEANS, rather than offering to me your empty, non-scriptural rhetoric born of your personal...

A strong accusation from someone who quotes scripture and reverses its meaning from God leading people by the Spirit to man choosing to do right under his own power.

Yes, it is about what we do, but it is not about what we choose, it is about God choosing to lead us. (I have been listening to Jesus.) [John 10:26-30 NASB] 26 "But you do not believe because you are not of My sheep. 27 "My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me; 28 and I give...

[Gal 5:18 NASB] 18 But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the Law. The IF is not about what you do, but what God does ... “if you are led by the Spirit”

Sorry for trying to make an honest attempt at an analogy when I thought you were really trying to communicate. “Sin” is more powerful than “alcoholism” ... As the Scriptures say, "No one is righteous--not even one. No one is truly wise; no one is seeking God. All have turned away; all have...

No, you built a strawman from my position. I am not God, so who gets to go to Heaven is a question above my pay grade. What do you make of God’s statement before the Great Flood of Noah ... did he forget to say “except those cute little toddlers”? At what age does the infant go from sinless to...

[John 15:16 NLT] 16 You didn't choose me. I chose you. I appointed you to go and produce lasting fruit, so that the Father will give you whatever you ask for, using my name. [John 15:19 NLT] 19 The world would love you as one of its own if you belonged to it, but you are no longer part of the...

Some believe they have a picture of Bigfoot. So what? The Bible teaches that God chose us in Christ before the foundation of the world, and that those that the Father has given to the Son, will come to the Son, will be given eternal life by the Son and will be raised on the last day. The...

I cried when Peter drowned. I cried again when Peter lost his place in eternity by denying Christ thrice before the cock crowed. I cried a third time when Peter fell from salvation for his hypocrisy with the Judaisers when Paul had to publicly rebuke him. If only Jesus had chosen Peter instead...

First, a reminder of the actual point that I was making that you felt the need to correct me on ... 1 Peter 3:8-13 is a wonderful verse, but I don’t believe that an admonition to do good negates the OMNIPOTENCE of God and abrogates His promises to finish what He starts like Romans 8:29-30...

He is risen Indeed! :)

I am under no such impression about God. I am just concerned that you keep emphasizing the CONDITIONS and downplaying the FORGIVENESS. Taken to its inevitable conclusion, just one unconfessed sin is a violation of the CONDITIONS of your “CONDITIONAL FORGIVENESS” ... that means damnation.

Your reading difficulties are not really any of my business.

Sorry, I did not intend to fling the mud so far. His belief appears to share with Catholicism the belief that sins must be confessed to be forgiven (that is why my mother goes to confession every Saturday, so she can go to Mass on Sunday). Beyond that, his emphasis that grace is so...

OSAS is Perseverance of the Saints ... as in Those God has Justified, God has Glorified (Rom 8:29-30) and God will finish what God started (Phil 1:6) and the Holy Spirit GUARANTEES our inheritance (Eph 1:13-14) and Jesus promised to raise those that the Father draws (John 6:44) and I am secure...