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There's plenty of Biblic evidence for TULIP indeed! as there is for human responsibility (I prefer the term 'human responsibility' to 'free will').

1 Peter 1.23 also: '...begotten...by the word of God which liveth and abideth for ever'.

By the same Spirit those who are truly born again cry 'Abba, Father' (Romans 8.15).

The question of the perceived authority of religious leaders is relevant. The Scriptures should be the yardstick.

PS: It may well be true. Maybe for your daughter it was simply about doing first ink at around 18 as a sign of adulthood; and then that was it. But you're probably aware that the word 'addictive' - in a benign sense - does come to mind, as regards how so many people find the experience of...

@GodsGrace FYI, so did you see some of the latest posts?

James 1.18: "Of His own will begat he us with the word of truth..."

Maybe the ref. is incorrect?

@Jun2u Good to bow humbly to the wondrous grace and sovereignty of God in Scripture.

Indeed so!

We already talked but, again, good to see you!

Yes; the bondage of being dead in sin and unbelief - as Ephesians 2 points out - must be spiritually discerned through God's grace.

Well, I do commend the zeal of the Christian literature distributor; I do question however some of the wording of some commonly distributed evangelistic literature.

Well I'm glad that you can be blessed by those Scriptures.

She had it done, too, then. It may well be her last one, as she says. (It's not surprising that both your daughters have had it done; it seems that young women now so strongly tend to welcome receiving the inking needle. For this reason also, the possibility that it might not after all be her...

It's all indeed a work of our loving, gracious God.

Well said.

KJV is time honoured and basically reliable.

I was thinking of the 'methods of persuasion' of so called evangelicals, which sometimes resemble sales pitches more than a presentation of the Sprit-inspired Word, by which God works, with the result that sinners respond to the call of God because of Christ's work.