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To fear God could mean to be terrified of Him... Or it could mean to have reverence for Him.... You could decide which you prefer. I'm not getting into the Greek. I prefer to have reverence for God and not be terrified of Him. Strong's Concordance phobeó: to put to flight, to terrify...

The above says that man makes free will choices.... His actions and choices are done freely... BUT, that these choices are made IN ACCORDANCE with God's DETERMINATION AND CONTROL over the entire situation. If we choose what God determines.... how is that a free will choice? There is no free...

Give me a scripture please. I don't see this in the N.T. God draws all men to Himself.... BEFORE the crucifixion in Romans 1:19-20 AFTER the crucifixion in John 12:32 "And I, if I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all men to Myself." ALL MEN are drawn to God in one way or another...

Sure. I know it's difficult to face up to what you've said... Please answer my other post.

Luckily for me,,,I don't fear the Lord. You can if you want to, but this is not what Jesus taught. You're still living in O.T. times? Do you also follow all the Law? Jesus taught that we are loved by God and that we are like children to God. Jesus taught that we are to be like...

I don't give advice on these forums. I don't believe anyone should be giving advice. It's nice to see that you have the same insight God has and know who has how much spirituality. Which TRUTH have I turned into a LIE? If I posted lies to you in previous posts,,,why didn't you address them?

Right. And making unbiblical statements.

Well then,,,, explain it please. To God Only Be The Glory and not to any man....

ALL PERSONS ARE BORN IN THE SIN NATURE... When we're born we are (at the age of accountability) children of wrath... no Christian denies this. What we deny is that we have the free will to CHOOSE GOD... And that we are not so depraved that we cannot. Total depravity is based on the idea of...

They used their libertarian free will to CHOOSE to not do the right thing. OR God is making them do the wrong thing....compatibilist free will. God makes persons do the wrong thing? WHAT is the use of that? If HE makes us do the wrong thing...compatible free will...then are we held...

You should stop learning about Pelagianism and learn about the scriptures instead. STOP following men, and START following Jesus.

YOU are not an animal--an animal lives by INSTINCT. YOU are a human being, made in the likeness of God. Your nature has many attributes that God's nature has. Do you even know any of them? Do you consider yourself to be like an animal?

How totally dumb. WHERE in THEOLOGY does it say that free will means we can fly? Why don't you stick to scriptural and theological free will and quit debating philosophical free will? Scary isn't it?

@Episkopos I think what you're telling SBG is horrible and the likes you give her do not help her to understand the word. How about making it as simple as Jesus made it?

Read my post about fearing God again. OR NOT. Your choice. Keep fearing Him... That will make for a SUPER GREAT RELATIONSHIP. Make sure to fear your father brother husband too. It only makes sense.

So are you saying the Apostles had NO ONE to teach them? Or would you agree that they had the BEST holder of a PhD ever? Were YOU born with infused knowledge just like Adam and Eve were? Or did you have to learn? You mean the Holy Spirit just sat down with you and taught you about everything...

Oh, I agree with you. Gnosticism entered into the church even before the Apostles had passed away. John was writing about THEM when he said that they left because they were not OF US...he was not speaking about unbelievers, but those who believed wrongly. We must admit, however, that it was the...

Marks, I don't care for that expression that you're thinking of above which comes from Isaiah about the filthy rags. Here's why: It makes it sound like that if we do anything for God we're trying to get our own righteousness,,,IOW,,,this verse is always used to show that our works are worth...

And, it will only get worse. One of the reasons I post here is to try to remember what I know... it kind of gets lost a bit. When we get to heaven, we'll know everything! For now, we know what we NEED to know and nothing else is really necessary.

It's historical knowledge that once the church was declared acceptable through Constantine's Edit of Milan,,,AND THEN the acceptance of the church into the government later on (can't remember the details) THE CHURCH CHANGED. This is why I insist that the ECFs should only be accepted to 325...