Like i said, anyone can past any passage, it does not prove their point
Whatever.
You want to pump your chest and boast how great you are. Feel free.
I will have non of it and will humbly come to the throne of grace. And point to jesus, Not myself like you are doing
its amazing both arminians and calvinists point to self. In their pride they can not see they fail to point to christ, even though both claim they do.
but its all about them, My works, My ability, or god chose me, and not you.. blah blah blah
Thank you. You just assured me, you do not understand.
See, I turned your posting style around onto you. And you replied as you did above.
No one comes to Salvation in Christ unless the Holy Spirit enters in and leads that person Holy Spirit Elected through His grace to receive the free irrevocable gift of Salvation. And this Election was before the foundation of the world. And that person's name is written in The Lambs Book of Eternal Life.
This happens because as Jesus,Yeshua,tells us, the things of God are foolishness to all people,we who as humans are of a natural,carnal,self-absorbed,self-conscious,mind. We are in and a product of this world.
Unless God,the Holy Spirit, enters into our consciousness. And then He leads us to understanding. Because we are meant to by God's will and through His grace.
All that God gives to Salvation through His anointing, Christ, Jesus/Yeshua will eternally irrevocably remain in Him. He will lose no one. We did not choose Him. He chose us.
The Human doctrine of choice disagrees.
Because the things of God,such as the Gospel,are foolishness.
Which is why some insist God predetermining all things is just not in scripture. And so too is it foolish to think God saves us and we don't have to earn it or labor to keep it. We know! Nothing in life is really ever free.
We have free will. Which says we tell a God what's up.
Certainly humans can choose to follow Jesus. And conversely choose not to.
A large part of the Words of God are God foretelling his plans for people,places and things.
This doesn't mean God predetermines everything.Proverbs 16:9 is a mere suggestion.
And if someone is saved and then chooses not to be, God revokes every little thing that occurred when that person was redeemed in Christ and made a new creation. It all gets stripped away. They're dead in sin again.God remembers their sin.They lose the ability to understand the things of God so that it all becomes foolishness to them again. And their choice not to believe evicts the Holy Spirit from within them.
Oops! Sorry Jesus! You said of all the Father gives you shall lose none. No one will take them from your hand. BUT! You didn't say they couldn't choose to jump.
Eternal Life. Through Yeshua,Jesus Christ The Lord!
Conditional Reprieve.
Yeshua died on the cross so we could work at it.