Repentance is the Gift Of God !
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That is the only way a person can repent in Salvation, when God grants them repentance.
False teaching. The only way a person can repent or believe in the True Christ it must be given from heaven.
It explains the reality that people rebel. That God doesn't force repentance.
Acts of the Apostles 5:31 in no way teaches your heresy that a man automatically receives repentance when God gives it.
The scriptures that I have brought up indicate that there is free will in man.
It refutes your position that there is no free will in man.
That doesn't change the fact that they must receive what is granted for it to be valid.
Now you are saying that the holy scriptures carry false teaching.
I think we are done here; you are way out in left field.
I don't know what you talking about. I never said not scripture says that repentance is forced on anyone. However repentance is given to some people as a gift Acts 5:31
If they cannot reject it it is forced on them.
Did you not say that if God gives repentance man automatically receives it?
Given irresistibly? Can said person refuse to repent?
The scriptures are fine, your mishandling of them is the problem. God gives repentance, and its received, He simply bestows a Gift, mans will has nothing to do with it. Acts 5:31
No its not, the Gift is given, bestowed, it isnt forced, I never said that, you said it, but not me ! You bearing false witness again
Nope, the Gift causes them to repent Ezk 36:27
27 And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments, and do them.
Then " forced" would be exactly the right word if that were the way that should be interpreted.
Did the people that he said that to walk in perfect obedience all the days of their lives? Not.
Yeah, what scripture says is that we receive him. What scripture says is that we have to humble ourselves.
He will cause us to walk in His statutes and judgments once we have received the Holy Spirit.
He does not cause us to receive the Holy Spirit.
The "sprinkling of clean water" is in baptism; which is a choice that is made by man.
You saying things scripture does not say. Scripture does say however that God gives repentance Acts 5:31
Again when God gives one the newbirth He causes them to repent. I have explained to you that repentance is the fruit of having been born again.
He said what the scripture does say (John 1:12).
No; a man repents unto becoming born again.
He is given the ability to come to Christ when the Holy Spirit draws him; at that point he is given the ability to receive Christ while he also has the option of rejecting Him.
John 1:12
12 But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name:
James 4:10
Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will exalt you.
James 4:6
But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, “God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”
1 Peter 5:6
Humble yourselves, therefore, under the mighty hand of God so that at the proper time he may exalt you,
29 Peter and the other apostles replied: “We must obey God rather than human beings! 30 The God of our ancestors raised Jesus from the dead—whom you killed by hanging him on a cross. 31 God exalted him to his own right hand as Prince and Savior that he might bring Israel to repentance and forgive their sins. 32 We are witnesses of these things, and so is the Holy Spirit, whom God has given to those who obey him.”
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