Subject: eph 1:4-5 what is predestination, chosen |
Bible Note: Thanks ebrain I certainly agree that faith in Christ is the result of the new birth and not the cause of it. How can someone who is dead in sins and at enmity with God and whose heart is stone possibly come in faith to the Lord Jesus Christ unless God first works a change in his heart? Although you say that you are not a Calvinist, I thought this view of things is what is commonly regarded as the Calvinist position. I wouldn't particularly want to use the label "Calvinist" myself in that I think he was wrong about some things (e.g. infant baptism)but on the doctrines of salvation I think his was the biblical position. As I mentioned earlier, I'm sure this matter has been debated on the forum in the past and I don't want to start another debate up again. In him Apollos |