Brother, part of the problem here with your using the underlined/red portion is the fact that this is not referring to a soteriological call, but a call to final judgment.
A completely different topic.
Thus it falls short of a good proof text in support of your theory.
I believe God must quicken those who are saved. But you are already aware of this being my belief. :love2: :wavey:
John 5:25-29??
Discussion in 'Baptist Theology & Bible Study' started by convicted1, May 7, 2012.
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So how did they hear and understand the gospel before they believed? You have to hear the gospel and understand it before you can believe it, but you are not spiritually alive until you believe it.
The Philipian jailer is a good example that refutes Calvinism. He desired to be saved, he was willing to listen to Paul and Silas, but he was still spiritually dead in sins. He had not believed yet, he did not even know he had to believe until Paul told him. And he did not know what to believe until he took Paul home and heard the gospel. And he had to understand the gospel to believe it.
The Philipian jailer was spiritually dead until he believed and his sins were forgiven, yet he desired to hear the gospel before he believed, and he understood the gospel before he believed.
So, Calvinism presents an impossible contradiction. They claim a man is spiritually alive before he believes and his sins are forgiven. This is impossible. -
2. If you are a believer, you are already saved. Giving salvation to believers makes no sense. -
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Why would someone who is already spiritually alive need to believe on Jesus? They are already alive, they are already born again, so why do they need to believe?
And this is what is so wrong about Calvinism, it does not teach that you are made alive when you believe on Jesus, it teaches you are made alive without Jesus. Oh, they throw Jesus in there, but only after you already have life. -
We also see from IC's post a clear contradiction. He states those in hell (unregenerated) can and do understand the doctrines of grace. Were they regenerated before being cast into the Lake of Fire?
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They separate having life from being saved, which is ridiculous. If you have life you are already saved and would not need to believe on Jesus.
Why do you need to believe on Jesus to have life if you already have life?
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God won't regenerate a person to respond to his call on earth...but he will allow them to "hear" once he punishes them? That is justice...how? :confused: -
Willis, do you mind if i throw the verse in my signature into the mix? (Isaiah 1:18)
Since Amy, IC and The Sidekick want to separate spiritual inability into salvation/non salvation categories, how does this verse apply? God clearly "reasoning" with the unregenerate...salvifically.
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