>>It is evident that when you are confronted with arguments you can't debate, you result in insults. That is childish. The truth is you have a fatalistic and extreme Calvinistic view of election that is not supported by the Bible. That is not a lie, it is the truth.>>
Where's your grammar leasson for me? You have yet to show me a different rule of subject and predicate. And you can't.
>>The attempt to cover up ALL men with Satan is silly.<<
The scripture DOES NOT SAY ALL MEN. IT SAYS <b>ANYONE</b>. You're the one reading things into the Bible that are not there.
>>Men are born sinful, but have the ability to repent and the ability to believe and subject themselves to God's will.<<
Men have NO ability, sin can do NOTHING but sin unless God changes that HIMSELF. God chooses men that will obey. That's the way it was from the beginning. That's the way it will always be.
>>Satan is far different.<<
Satan is an "anyone." Demons are "anyone." The Pharisees were "anyones." Those DOOMED by blaspheming the Spirt are "anyone." You are incorrect. Men who NEVER stop sinning are also "anyones."
2 Peter 2:14
14 With eyes full of adultery, they never stop sinning; they seduce the unstable; they are experts in greed-an accursed brood!
So, these ones prophesied above? They can become saved? FAT CHANCE. If these men have been prophesied about, there are men who are DOOMED to this very destiny. God already knows who they are, because they have been prophesied about. Basic Logic.
>>The main problem I have with your argument is that you are saying that God chooses some to believe and others not.<<
I most certainly am and so is Romans 9. Thanks for paying so much attention. That is the WHOLE DEAL. For Jesus to make a statment as condemning as "broad and spacious is the road leading off to destruction" how can he say that unless he knew that to be true? In order for him to know that to be true, he has to know who they are already. Faith is through Christ. Deny it all you like. Denial does not change the truth. Denial makes it known who you are.
>>That is not Biblical.<<
Sure the heck is. You have defended yourself with nothing. Claiming you understand the grammar with no explaination of it. Faith is a gift from God. He has assumed control. You have NO CONTROL over your own destiny. God controls ALL THINGS unto Himself. If you do not like it, you do not like God.
>>Do you not think that Satan believes in God? Of course he does. He has just rejected him. If Satan turned himself around and subjected himself to God's will he could be saved, but we know he would never do that and I am not saying he ever would. He is all evil.<<
Doomed to die just like those like him. And God already knows who they are. All men are doomed to die. Unless God salvaged some men FOR HIMSELF...BY HIMSELF, all men would be condemned to death. ALL MEN are condemned to death and it is God who chooses who He wants out of all the condemned. You are powerless over your destiny. If you had power over your destiny, that would make you God. You are not God. You are a crappy man like me. So much poo poo on the front yard of life.
>>I do agree that people who sin against the Holy Spirit have sins that are unforgivable according to the scriptures.<<
Then you don't agree with the Bible or Christ. You preach your own gospel that Christ never taught. So you are in the lie mode again:
Mark 3:29
29 But whoever blasphemes against the Holy Spirit will never be forgiven; he is guilty of an eternal sin."
>>But a sin against the Holy Spirit is to deny Christ, the same as not believing in him.<<
See the above. You are incorrect.
>>You are adding text to the Bible when you say that how would Jesus know how much faith Peter had unless he gave it to him.<<
"INCREASE OUR FAITH!!" You are blind to the truth of God. You sure did not address this one sport. The Apostles asked Christ to increase their faith. The Bible says faith is THROUGH Christ. Deny it, and you deny Christ.
>>He knew because he was God and was all knowing.<<
He was NOT God! He was a man who USED to be God when he was in heaven. He had the Father's power on him, and he was the means by which all men receive their faith.
>>The text does not say he knew because he gave Peter his faith in the first place.<<
INCREASE OUR FAITH!!! That was the Apostles request to Jesus. Jesus DID increase their faith, because ithey could not. It is not in man to increase it or even conjure it up as faith comes from God the Father through his Son.
>>Romans 3:11 -18 is Paul's indictment to the Jewish people that the law will not save them. Taken out of context it doesn't say what you are implying.<<
You a liar. It SAYS PLAINLY that Jew and Gentile are alike. It has NOTHING to do with your fabrication to hide the truth of men's utter debased condition and impossilbilty to find the truth of God on their own:
Rom 3:9-18
9 What shall we conclude then? Are we any better? Not at all! We have already made the charge that Jews and Gentiles alike are all under sin. 10 As it is written:
"There is no one righteous, not even one;
11 there is no one who understands,
no one who seeks God.
12 All have turned away,
they have together become worthless;
there is no one who does good,
not even one."
13 "Their throats are open graves;
their tongues practice deceit."
"The poison of vipers is on their lips."
14 "Their mouths are full of cursing and bitterness."
15 "Their feet are swift to shed blood;
16 ruin and misery mark their ways,
17 and the way of peace they do not know."
18 "There is no fear of God before their eyes."
That is mankind, Jew and Gentile alike. So your scam "out of context" has been shown to be a lie. One lie generates the next. It is a viscious cycle that God will end.
>>John 1:13 must be put in context. The verses are talking about Jesus and the verses before it say : 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.<<
See the BOLD? It is not man's right to create it. It IS NOT their decsion. It is Jesus right to give it and decide WHO to give it to.
>>John 1 :9 says that this is available to ALL men who believe. It is available to all, not just a chosen few.<<
You preach a lie.
>>My argument is simple: Man has the free will to chose God or not.<<
That is a lie.
>>If Man repents of his sins, choses to open his heart to God and profess his faith in him, the Holy Spirit dwells within him and he is born again.<<
Man cannot choose ANYTHING on his own. God gives the man faith in order to believe. Then the fruitage of a believer follows.
>>Eph 2:4,5 - God made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions it is by grace that we are saved. This passage does not change by argument
GOD MADE US ALIVE. And yet you preach, you make yourself alive. That is a bald faced lie.