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1 | How can anyone be saved? | 1 Cor 2:14 | Hank | 61100 | ||
John, how can man be free to choose Christ but not have the ability to do so? It would seem to me that in the absence of ability to do or not to do any given thing, freedom to do it really doesn't exist and is a moot issue. Your rationale and reasoning processes fail to convince. --Hank | ||||||
2 | How can anyone be saved? | 1 Cor 2:14 | Lionstrong | 61101 | ||
Hi Hank! If I may take a stab at your question: I’m free to take a privately charted luxury liner around the world, but my small financial reserves makes me unable to do so. Fallen man’s moral capital is less than small; it is non-existent! He is morally bankrupt! While free, he has no moral capital to invest a faith commitment in Christ. This is a financial analogy of the effects of sin in man. Of course, we usually use Paul’s biological analogy. He says that we were morally dead in sin (Eph 2), incapable of doing anything to please God (Rom 8), including believing in His Son. Peace in the Lamb, |
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3 | How can anyone be saved? | 1 Cor 2:14 | EdB | 61107 | ||
Lionstrong Your luxury cruise analogy is more an example of freedom you are free to take the trip. However if you never have the funds available you never had a choice whether to take the trip of not. The lack of funds negated any such choice. Your right man can’t make the choice by himself, that is why God gives every man the spiritual awareness of sin, of the a need for salvation and a chance to reject that salvation. Man then makes the choice, accept Jesus Christ as Lord and Master or reject the fact He has any claim to your life, ignoring the fact He bought you with a price, the blood of our salvation. EdB |
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4 | How can anyone be saved? | 1 Cor 2:14 | Lionstrong | 61180 | ||
Hi Ed! Your view of the effects of sin on the will of man does not do justice to the biblical data. It’s not that man needs some assistance in choosing Christ, such that the grace he needs from God is to be made aware of his sin, his need for salvation, and a chance to reject it. The biblical picture is that sin has made man, morally speaking, dead--dry bone dead! (Eph 2, Ezek 37) He cannot make ANY moral choices that are pleasing to God (Rom 8). This means that he cannot make the moral choice of faith in Christ. The grace needed by fallen man dead in sin in order to choose Christ is to be made alive! (Eph 2) The grace needed to come to Christ is not to be made aware, but to be drawn to Him (Jn 6), otherwise fallen man WILL not come. The grace needed to enter the Kingdom is not a chance to reject it, but to be born again, something which only the Spirit of God can accomplish (Jn 3). Peace, |
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5 | How can anyone be saved? | 1 Cor 2:14 | EdB | 61185 | ||
Lionstrong I beg to differ with you, Abraham made many choices pleasing to God. Job was pleasing to God in fact God was even using him as an example. Where do you guys get this stuff? I know your proof text tells you so. Read the whole Bible and see if you walk away with the that concept. Explain this, in the Old Testament when the sin sacrifice was made, it was made for everyone, why do you insist that the Jesus’ sacrifice wasn’t made for all men. Jesus was the Passover Lamb who died that the world would not have to die. Rather than believe “John 3:16 For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. “ you would rather believe, God gave his only begotten Son that only the chosen elect that were enabled to believe and therefore must accept Him would not perish but have everlasting life. This whole concept flies in the face of everything we see in the Bible. Man’s acceptance or rejection of God’s love. The Bible is filled with men that knew God sinned and in some cases repented and in other died in their sin. Or are you saying God just let us think we are free moral agents but we really aren’t, we are really robots? Some of us were created to experience salvation and others created to experience damnation the choice was made and we have nothing to do with it. Put all the fancy words around it you want if you can’t chose life unless God enables you and once God does enable you have to chose life, is no choice. EdB |
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