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You put that in quotations; quoted from what? How does one repent of unbelief? That doesn't even make any sense. We repent of our sins. Give your Faith in Christ to God??? What does that even mean? Faith is something you do. To have faith is to believe in God. Faith is belief in God. The...

It is required; it is not imposed. The very first instance of spiritual rebirth, as you call it, was recorded in Acts 2:38.

Incapable of studying up on it on your own?

That is completely up to you. God doesn't impose it upon you.

Your thoughts here are probably all wrapped up in the phrase there, "spiritual rebirth", whatever that is. Anyone does not know what spiritual rebirth is cannot even properly discuss it.

After.

Yes.

You have the order wrong. Once you are repentant believer, then the Holy Spirit will regenerate you. You have to want that "new nature".

That is not true. The gift of the Holy Spirit (Acts 2:38) is not the empowering Holy Spirit to work signs, wonders and miracles; rather it is the indwelling Holy Spirit, the helper and comforter promised to all who have been saved. If he believes it, then it may be wrong, but it is not a lie...

Precisely for the same reason that Adam and Eve sinned!

Then what was the temptation? If there is no desire, then there can be no temptation.

Paul tells us specifically why death spread to everyone. It was "because everyone sinned". Adam was just the first. You didn't die spiritually because Adam sinned; you died spiritually because you sinned. It was you @TheHC, not Adam, who caused you to die spiritually. You were dead in your...

The death that came from Adam's disobedience was his own spiritual death. His physical death came from being ejected from the garden and no longer having access to the fruit of the tree of life. Everlasting life is not immortality. The fruit of the tree of life provided the preventative to...

So then, you do think that Satan was ignorant of the very thing that you think you know. Interesting. Another question. How you could be tempted in something that you have absolutely no interest?

If that were actually true, are you saying that Satan didn't know that? Was he really that stupid? I don't think so. We all are able to choose not to sin and most do that most of the time. It is just that no one except Jesus has ever done that perfectly. Lusts of the flesh is inherent in...