You have not posted any that actually say the unsaved cannot choose God. You also contradict yourself with a statement lower in this post that believers are chosen from the foundations of the earth. You believe in a God who created man in His Image then does not love them, in fact you have God condemning them to hell before they are born. How is any of that scriptural. He took on our humna nature for the sole purpose of saving mankind/world from death and sin. Rom 1:18-24 is very clear that every single human being will be without excuse at judgement. Every human being makes a choice of either death or life. Nowhere in scripture does it ever say the opposite.
I did, maybe you slept through when you read the post. but here are a few again
7 Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.
8 So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God.
10 As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one:
11 There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God.
18 There is no fear of God before their eyes.
14 But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
this declareth God!!!!!
All in violation of scripture itself, where interpretation was never given privately to individuals, nor is the Holy Spirit the giver of all of these false teachings. The Gospel was once given, completely, it was given to the early Chruch and the Holy Spirit works through His Body as He stated in II Tim 3:15. It is the Body that determines false teachings not individual man nor even a group of men.
Interpretation does not belong to some ecclesiastical body. It is for the individuals.
Now if you want to get into teh lengthy discussion of why there are so many "interpretations" we can start another thread and posit the many hypotheses as to why.
And the body is also not an ecclesiastical body but each and every individual.
Paul extolled teh Bereans for their individual study and Paul told Timothy and Titus to teach men who would teach others who would teach othersd etc.etc..
You are more interested in accepting some Ecclestiastical decision on what Scripture says no matter how badly they may reinterpret it!
all sects of Christendom have correct and incorrect doectrines in them, None are infallible.
There are enough Calvinist on this thread, let alone on this forum that one can garner a clear picture of what it means.Actu8ally it is immaterial what it means because Christ's atonement was universal.
Nice way of saying you are too lazy to see for yourself. I guess you do not like the Berean philosophy of verifying what people say.
That is this dispensation. And all nations have been exposed to the Gospel. God did not stop what the Holy Spirit was doing in the other dispensations.
If by that you mean land masses that are delineated by borders, I would tend to agree. But there are still billions of people world wide who have never heard the name Jesus. god doesn't save on the basis of a physical nation hearing the gospel, but individual faith in the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus for ones sin debt before God!
Indonesia has heard the gospel, but that is a nation with a thousand islands and the super majority of the inhabited islands of that nation have never heard the gospel.
Cannot think of one. But then that was the purpose of this dispensation.
But yet according to what you have been posting here, this must have happened according to you! It is the purpose of the church which is the title of this dispensation (the church age or dispensation of the church) It is the job of teh church alone to bring the gospel to the nations. It won't happen by angels or the Spirit taking form and preaching to a tribe who never heard!
I don't see here any thing that says how any person is saved. It is a continuation of a discourse between Jesus and the Pharisees. They are arguing whether He is the Messiah or an interloper. Pharisees did not listen to him before as they don't now. Jesus compares them to those that believed, they hear and listen to Him. The fact Jesus goes after the lost sheep, the fact one can leave says a lot about perseverance of the saints.
Are you really that blind?????????????????? Only the sheep of Jesus hear His voice and follow Him, aka geet saved. Everyone else is not of Jesus sheep.
Jesus sends us to gather the lost sheep! Not turn goats to sheep! Jesus commands us to gather teh wheat to His barns, not turn tares into wheat! That fits in perfectly with the numerous verses about election, predestination, foreknowledge, being chosen etc.
