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@rootcausesleuth
I like to ask questions and try to understand things
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@TheMuppetPastor @BornAgainBalaky @Jondaphemp @GodsFavRtard @rootcausesleuth Don’t know much about Wesley. But I did verify:
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@Et_Gladius_Dei @x9ishere @Jondaphemp @BornAgainBalaky @TheMuppetPastor @GodsFavRtard 😆 of course.
In reality, God WAS in Christ reconciling the whole world to himself. So Jesus did bring justification to all men, imo.
But they have to receive it by faith, be reconciled to God.
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@x9ishere @Jondaphemp @BornAgainBalaky @rootcausesleuth @TheMuppetPastor @GodsFavRtard Brothers⬇️ Romans, 5:18
But I’m sure the first all means all
And the second all means certainly less than half
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@Pastor_Gabe @ronhenzel @TodAshby @Soteriology101 @Pastor_ChrisH @DrDavidLAllen @theo_bruv @uncommonsens3 @RisingDisciples @rootcausesleuth @contra__culture @CalvinistFather @OJarod3315 @Guitardo7 @StanfieldBrent1 @jaysonyork @IrrTruth @RefRetrieval HA yes was trying to include folks on both sides who have been helpful (imo) in threads ~ FORTUNATELY you needn’t catch up as I’ve consolidated everything into my own recently published 3 Vol systematic theology 😉
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The New Testament proclamation of the Gospel to unbelievers neither says nor implies that Christ’s atonement is a provision made equally for every person, @soteriology101, but it simply declares that all who believe will be saved (Jn 3:16; Ac 16:31). Nothing about the fact that the intention of Christ’s death was specifically to save the elect makes this proclamation “misleading.”
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The term reconciliation infers the willingness of two separate parties coming to an agreement or covenant, if you will. It does not, nor has it ever, even implied that one party makes the decisions for both sides of the reconciliation.
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@DrawNear_ @ReformedCaio I’d like to hear your answer to this, Caio. I think it points back toward the whole point.
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Without grace he's so truly lost he doesn't even know he's lost.
But I also wouldn't say, "Oh, you believe that man is unable to seek after God." I think when people say that they are using shorthand, like when we say limited atonement, it's shorthand for a specific type of limitation.
Would this be more accurate? "You believe that man is unable to seek after God regardless of the level of God's revelation, absent the grace of regeneration."
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No one is without God’s grace (favor), so the question doesn’t apply to reality.
All people have what it takes to seek God and find him.
Caio Rodrigues@ReformedCaio
@DustinSJenkins Could man, in his fallen state and without God’s grace, seek God and exercise saving faith that is pleasing to God?
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@Jordan_Col_1_20 @ReformedCaio Maybe I’m not understanding, but I don’t think Caio thinks there’s anything we can do without the grace of God.
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@ReformedCaio @rootcausesleuth Is man able to exist or do anything at all without the grace of God?
You seem to be avoiding this question because it reveals the incorrect implication of your original question that there are some things man can do without the grace of God.
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“If God is [strictly] immutable, He cannot be the religiously available God of the Scriptures. But if God is religiously available, He cannot be the unchanging God of the philosophers.”
- Ronald Nash (quoted by Peckham)
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The Doctrines of "Grace" ⬇️ 🚩🚩🚩
"If a bank can demand payment for your debt without providing a means to pay it, God can, too."
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@M_Christianity @ronhenzel @TodAshby @Soteriology101 @Pastor_ChrisH @DrDavidLAllen @theo_bruv @uncommonsens3 @RisingDisciples @contra__culture @CalvinistFather @OJarod3315 @Guitardo7 @StanfieldBrent1 @jaysonyork @IrrTruth @Pastor_Gabe @RefRetrieval Caio was talking about imaginary scenarios yesterday…could man seek God if there was no grace…in order to conclude that all Christians believe man can’t seek God, not just Calvinists.
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High Calvinism:
No-Fall wasn’t ultimately possible. It was contingently possible in the sense that [IF] there was no Divine Decree for them to sin [THEN] it was possible that Adam and Eve could have not sinned.
Observation:
The [If] / [Then] describes a fictional scenario that never happened — because the Decree was present. That removes any and all possibility, contingent or otherwise, of No-Fall. In short:
The Possibility of No-Fall = 0%
The Necessity of Fall = 100%
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How'd I do painting him?
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Middle Earth Memes@MiddleEarth_xD
What are your thoughts on Radagast the Brown?
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We don’t have to pick.
2 Corinthians 5:20 presents God imploring and begging the world to repent through His messengers.
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Dreadful theology. Jesus isn’t in heaven wringing His hands wondering if you’ll ever come around. God chose His children before the foundation of the world. Everything that happens on your path to Him was ordained for your good and His glory. The chosen will come when called.
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@rootcausesleuth So you're saying that the best place for them was to be denied the opportunity to be saved from hell.
That's amazing. Is that biblical?
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@rootcausesleuth Does that apply to the 5 to 20 million native Aussies, aborigines, whom God denied a choice to receive salvation in Jesus?
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@RevReads289 @ProvisionistP I will check with Cornelius on that.
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Man does not exist without the grace of God.
There is no Gospel in existence without the grace of God.
There is no church without the grace of God.
It's impossible to create a scenario in this world where man seeks God apart from His grace.
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@Jordan_Col_1_20 @ReformedCaio I know. But he’s doubled, tripled, quadrupled down on it all day
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@rootcausesleuth @ReformedCaio The question itself is a distraction from the actual point of disagreement which is the Calvinist idea that God withholds grace from most people (an entirely different proposition) and that the grace is irresistible to those it is extended to.
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