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1 | Faith in Self or Faith in God? | Rom 9:16 | DocTrinsograce | 173491 | ||
"The belief that most people hold to is that God loves everybody and wants to save everybody. But He has given man a free will, and cannot save a man unless that man, of his own free will, decides to let God save him. If that is true... "The Scriptures are mistaken when they describe man as dead in sins. "God is not sovereign. His will is subject to man's will. "Praying to God for the salvation of sinners is a mistake. We should be praying to men to use their will to let God save them. "Salvation is not dependent upon God, but man. "Man gets a portion of the credit in salvation. "Salvation cannot be said to be one hundred percent grace. Man's will is the key that unlocks the grace of God. Grace cannot work unless man turns the key. "God's will has no say in the ultimate destiny of the sinner. In reality, God's will is meaningless in the salvation of the sinner. The will of man controls his own destiny. "The death of Christ was at best a gamble, dependent upon the will of man, and in reality a failure, because many He died for are lost anyway. "The security of the believer hinges on his own will. Thank God '...it depends not on human will or exertion, but on God...' (Romans 9:16 ESV) The believer prefers Free Grace over free will!" --Rev. Todd Nibert |
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2 | Faith in Self or Faith in God? | Rom 9:16 | kalos | 173493 | ||
NOR OF HUMAN DECISION...but born of God Someone may believe: "Regeneration is a matter of exercising the will. In other words, it is initiated by a man making a decision." But God says: "Yet to all who received him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God -- children born not of natural descent, NOR OF HUMAN DECISION or a husband's will, but born of God." John 1:12-13 New International Version (NIV) (Emphasis added.) Nor of human decision...but born of God. 'The divine side of salvation: ultimately it is not a man's will that produces salvation but God's will.' (John MacArthur, MacArthur Study Bible, Word Publishing, 1997) |
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3 | Faith in Self or Faith in God? | Rom 9:16 | kalos | 173494 | ||
"Not a question of human will..." So then [God's gift] is not a question of human will and human effort, but of God's mercy. [It depends not on one's own willingness nor on his strenuous exertion as in running a race, but on God's having mercy on him.] Romans 9:16 AMPLIFIED Listen to the Bible is good advice. |
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