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The main argument against the truth of scripture is an emotional one. Paul knew this, and so do I. God is sovereign and is able to do as He pleases. He and He alone has free-will. I do not say God refuses His plan of salvation to some. I said "No one can come to God unless God overrides...

Holy means separate. Let our thoughts, words, and actions prove the love of Chirst in us and through us, and we will be holy. Let us love our enemies and as well as our family we will be holy. Let sin not be master over us and we will be holy. Let us serve Jesus Christ and we will be holy.

I will continue a faith based relationship. If you are alluding this pericope is about marriage you are dead wrong. Are you suggesting we follow the path of fallen angels? I agree those in hell are still under Jesus' authority. Please explain your logic. Most sickness come on us from viruses...

Romans 9:18-24 18 So then He has mercy on whom He desires, and He hardens whom He desires. 19 You will say to me then, “Why does He still find fault? For who resists His will?” 20 On the contrary, who are you, O man, who answers back to God? The thing molded will not say to the molder, “Why...

Yeah now I am feeling I should have waited on posting that pericope. Attacking the weaker of two arguments is almost always the tactic of opponents. Would you care to comment on this pericope? Jeremiah 32:39-40 39 and I will give them one heart and one way, that they may fear Me always, for...

I feel it prudent to summarize these posts to stimulate further discussion. I do understand we are on sacred ground here discussing the almighty free-will. I have heard it throughout particular circles that even God will not go against man's free will. With all the evidence of scripture I...

I have never presented the case that human agency in no way makes choices. My case is against the term free-will and the idea behind it. We can, do, and will continue to make choices under God's sovereign rule. The case I present proves we are limited in our agency and in our fallen state...

I am liking the sheep analogy right now so I am going to stick with it. Lets see what the Good Shepherd says about lost sheep: Luke 15:4 4 “What man among you, if he has a hundred sheep and has lost one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine in the open pasture and go after the one which is...

I do not believe you made a case that humans can make good decisions. I say, and so does scripture, that those who are not believers are not capable of doing this. Now we can make decisions, based on man's standard of good, but unless quickened by the Spirit, never by God's standard of good...

Please feel free to ask any questions on any portion you desire. I would have posted this as one body but due to the nature of how posting goes, (you can easily lose all of you information you began posting) it was best for me to post in portions and not as one body. Also it is easier to read...

The Sovereignty of God is now the next portion I will address. Scripture is full of instances that prove God is Sovereign. I have selected a handful of them to emphasize the next argument I will present. Let us keep in mind our definition of free-will: From the Stanford Encyclopedia of...

In order to disprove my conclusion in point #3 you must first disprove point #2. The third point is derived from second point. Seeing you agree with point #1 and point #2 you can not arbitrarily disregard point #3 Nice try but it just doesn't work like that. First off let me say this is...

I apologize if I am not communicating this correctly. I figure God can choose as He desires because He desires good. God does not break laws because He is not subject to any. I believe we were talking about the laws of nature, whereas you can not break those laws if you tried. God is...

What you are confusing here is God's freedom of choice. God is the only agent able to choose as He desires. His free-will does not limit Him in His choices, He does. In other words God freely chooses from His good nature to limit Himself to good, not that free-will limits Him. As far as the...

Let me answer these to start then later I will continue posting ideas. To the consequence issue. My statement is God is the only agent able to make choices without consequence, not to say He does, only to say He is able. If my #3 is confusing you may want to re-read my first post. But to be...

Consequence or recourse is the effect of choice. True freedom is simply that, free. The simple fact of consequence proves not all choices are free for if they were free then consequence could not lay claim. I know of only one agent in which this statement can not be applied, that is God. To...

I seek to search the concept of human free-will in accordance with the sovereignty of God. I ask the Lord Most High to use His Holy Spirit to guide this endeavor in the name of Jesus Christ. I will begin by defining the term "free-will". When thinking of the term "free-will" one will rightly...

2 Timothy 3:16 16 All Scripture is inspired by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for training in righteousness; 17 so that the man of God may be adequate, equipped for every good work.

So my question to you is those Israelites who were in the wilderness, were they allowed to enter the promised rest? Did they not receive the Holy Ghost when He tabernacled among them? What you speak of here is the permanent indwelling of the Holy Spirit. Here you and I agree, thank you. This...

I assume here you are referring to the Hebrews 6:4-6 passage. Show me in black and white exactly where in that passage it says they were made heirs of salvation. I am certain here you are in error. I agree you get salvation the moment God gives His mercy and grace towards you through your...