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Does man have free will to choose salvation?

Its not just my assertion, its scripture testimony Jn 3:19
19 And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.
What evil did Enoch do ?
Elijah ?
John the Baptist ?
Jesus ?
You have taken a generality and made it a blanket statement.
Did Zacchaeus, who was in the tree of Luke 19, change his "deeds" ?
Nobody is locked into their former natures.
Men cannot change their nature. And the evil deeds here are mostly religious evil deeds, self righteousness and false doctrines that exalt men. Scripture calls false doctines evil deeds 2 Jn 10-11
Man can't, but God will, if the man is willing to make that change.
10 If there come any unto you, and bring not this doctrine, receive him not into your house, neither bid him God speed:
11 For he that biddeth him God speed is partaker of his evil deeds.
If you are including yourself in the mass who won't repent of sin, and get baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of past sins, because your nature won't allow it, I have good news !
You can do all that is necessary to change what you were born with, by a rebirth from God's seed !
Nobody needs to remain a servant of sin forever. (John 8:32-34)

Are you dissatisfied with your nature that despises God, and want to change it ?
 
Man by nature loves darkness rather than light, that includes us, you and me, and every other human being born into this world,we love darkness because we are born dead in sin.
I never committed a sin until I was 7.
How could I be "born in sin" ?
I thank God for the gift of repentance from sin, and rebirth, after my old man was killed with Christ at my water baptism into Him and His death. (Gal 5:24)
You don't have to keep maintaining your evil nature !
You can be free of it !
 
What evil did Enoch do ?
Elijah ?
John the Baptist ?
Jesus ?
You have taken a generality and made it a blanket statement.
Did Zacchaeus, who was in the tree of Luke 19, change his "deeds" ?
Nobody is locked into their former natures.

Man can't, but God will, if the man is willing to make that change.

If you are including yourself in the mass who won't repent of sin, and get baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of past sins, because your nature won't allow it, I have good news !
You can do all that is necessary to change what you were born with, by a rebirth from God's seed !
Nobody needs to remain a servant of sin forever. (John 8:32-34)

Are you dissatisfied with your nature that despises God, and want to change it ?
Men love darkness rather than light by nature Jn 3:19

19 And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.

Quoting them doesnt change nothing.
 
I never committed a sin until I was 7.
How could I be "born in sin" ?
I thank God for the gift of repentance from sin, and rebirth, after my old man was killed with Christ at my water baptism into Him and His death. (Gal 5:24)
You don't have to keep maintaining your evil nature !
You can be free of it !
Man by nature loves darkness rather than light, that includes us, you and me, and every other human being born into this world,we love darkness because we are born dead in sin.
 
Man by nature loves darkness rather than light, that includes us, you and me, and every other human being born into this world,we love darkness because we are born dead in sin.
Man doesn't have to be satisfied with any nature he has.
Rebirth solves the inherent nature's problems.
 
Its not mans choice, God says men by nature love darkness rather than light Jn 3:19, now who are you to repliest against God ?
Though your citing doesn't say what you infer, it does make clear that it is because they love evil that they hate the light.
If their deeds weren't already evil, they would not hate the light.
Fortunately, not everybody keeps that outlook throughout their lives, and change it at some point.
Thank God for the gift of repentance from sin !
He made the way to escape darkness, and sin !
 
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Exactly but that's not man's choice, that's up to God. Thats a new creation, since when do men choose to be created ? They're dead.
Spiritual death is not physical death.
Any man who believes God, can escape the second death.
I was given the choice to either believe or disbelieve.
So were you.
 
Man doesn't have to be satisfied with any nature he has.
Rebirth solves the inherent nature's problems.
Jesus: "Whoever does not hate his own soul-life, cannot have spirit-life" .....

A lot from all walks of life pretend like actors they are okay, but they may be hyopocrites and not change and not wantto change (not repent) because others persuade them easily all too often that their sin is no problem, so continue in sin and many kinds of corruption and perversion without repenting, with no sign of remorse nor conviction.
 
Though your citing doesn't say what you infer, it does make clear that it is because they love evil that they hate the light.
If their deeds weren't already evil, they would not hate the light.
Fortunately, not everybody keeps that outlook throughout their lives, and change it at some point.
Thank God for the gift of repentance from sin !
He made the way to escape darkness, and sin !
Man by nature loves darkness rather than light, thats a condemnation, man by nature is dead and cant do anything about it.
 
Spiritual death is not physical death.
Any man who believes God, can escape the second death.
I was given the choice to either believe or disbelieve.
So were you.
In Spiritual death man loves darkness rather than light, he cant change it. Those who Love darkness rather than light dont and cant believe God, God is Light 1 Jn 1:5

This then is the message which we have heard of him, and declare unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.

Man by nature hates the light Jn 3:19-20

19 And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.

20 For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved.
 
By sacrificing any additional beliefs that are contrary to the Bible, you can break their dominion over your beliefs.

What does this mean?

By Jesus.

Indirectly. Mary basically consented to God's Plan to save us.
Why do you promote indirect things, overhyping her?
Who found our salvation?

Mar! Lk 1:30

Who consented to our salvation?

Mary! Lk 1:38

God will that our salvation cone to us thru Mary and All of God’s gifts and blessings will always come thru Mary the mediatrix of all grace and the throne of grace! Heb 4:16

“Why is it that the mystery of the Incarnation is not realised without Mary’s consent?” asks St. Ireneus, and he answers: “Because God willed her to be the source of all graces.” Lk 1:38

If, as Bossuet argues from St. Paul, “The gifts of God are without regret”, Rom 9:29 we may safely conclude that he who started the whole work of grace through Mary will not continue or complete it without her.

This is how that celebrated preacher and theologian sums up the Catholic tradition: “God willed to give us Jesus Christ through the Blessed Virgin Mary, and since God is faithful in His gifts, this order does not change. It is and always will be true that having received the universal principle of grace through her charity, we now receive, through her mediation, its various applications in all the different states of Christian life.

Having in her maternal charity contributed to our salvation through the mystery of the Incarnation, which is the universal principle of grace, Mary will contribute eternally in all other operations of grace which are necessarily dependent upon it.”

“He that spared not even His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how hath He not also, with Him, given us all things,” asks St. Paul.
Rom 8:32

A very compelling argument. If God gave us His Son, He cannot refuse us anything. And Saints have formulated another argument on similar lines: If God has given us His Son only through Mary, How can He give us anything else without her? If the greatest of His gifts came through her, how can His lesser gifts, which are only fruits of the first, follow another course? This simple logic of propriety alone urges us to assume that Mary is the mediatrix of all graces.

IRENAEUS​

“Consequently, then, Mary the Virgin is found to be obedient, saying, ‘Behold, O Lord, your handmaid; be it done to me according to your word.’ Eve, however, was disobedient, and, when yet a virgin, she did not obey. Just as she, who was then still a virgin although she had Adam for a husband—for in paradise they were both naked but were not ashamed; for, having been created only a short time, they had no understanding of the procreation of children, and it was necessary that they first come to maturity before beginning to multiply—having become disobedient, was made the cause of death for herself and for the whole human race; so also Mary, betrothed to a man but nevertheless still a virgin, being obedient, was made the cause of salvation for herself and for the whole human race. . . . Thus, the knot of Eve’s disobedience was loosed by the obedience of Mary. What the virgin Eve had bound in unbelief, the Virgin Mary loosed through faith” (Against Heresies 3:22:24 [A.D. 189]).
“The Lord then was manifestly coming to his own things, and was sustaining them by means of that creation that is supported by himself. He was making a recapitulation of that disobedience that had occurred in connection with a tree, through the obedience that was upon a tree [i.e., the cross]. Furthermore, the original deception was to be done away with—the deception by which that virgin Eve (who was already espoused to a man) was unhappily misled. That this was to be overturned was happily announced through means of the truth by the angel to the Virgin Mary (who was also [espoused] to a man). . . . So if Eve disobeyed God, yet Mary was persuaded to be obedient to God. In this way, the Virgin Mary might become the advocate of the virgin Eve. And thus, as the human race fell into bondage to death by means of a virgin, so it is rescued by a virgin. Virginal disobedience has been balanced in the opposite scale by virginal obedience. For in the same way, the sin of the first created man received amendment by the correction of the First-Begotten” (ibid., 5:19:1 [A.D. 189]).

Thks
 
Questions for you , I have gotten no answers for them so far .

In the genes is what you are saying correct ?

If so who put it in the genes ?
The sin of adam!

The fall caused our lower carnal passions to be unruly and as they should be subject to God’s will and commandments

Our fallen human nature is defective that is why we need God’s help! Jn 15:5 phil 4:13

Watch and pray
Ask and you shall receive
Faith, hope, & charity and all the royal virtues of Jesus Christ with the Spirit His gifts & fruits & grace supply the all our needs!

The Lord is my shepherd!
I shall not want!

Thks
 
Of the elect yes. His redeemed Israel world Isa 44 23

Sing, O ye heavens; for the Lord hath done it: shout, ye lower parts of the earth: break forth into singing, ye mountains, O forest, and every tree therein: for the Lord hath redeemed Jacob, and glorified himself in Israel.
Ps 130 8


And he shall redeem Israel from all his iniquities.

Lk 1 68

Blessed be the Lord God of Israel; for he hath visited and redeemed his people,

Lk 24 21

But we trusted that it had been he which should have redeemed Israel: and beside all this, to day is the third day since these things were done.
Jn 1:29
Jn 3:16
Lk 2:10-11
All! The whole world!
 
Heb 10: 10 By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.
Thats the elect and it shows that they for whom Christ died are permanently sanctified issuing in their eternal salvation,

Heb 5:9

9 And being made perfect, he became the author of eternal salvation unto all them that obey him;

They will obey His because they have been sanctified by His Death.
 
Jesus: "Whoever does not hate his own soul-life, cannot have spirit-life" .....

A lot from all walks of life pretend like actors they are okay, but they may be hyopocrites and not change and not wantto change (not repent) because others persuade them easily all too often that their sin is no problem, so continue in sin and many kinds of corruption and perversion without repenting, with no sign of remorse nor conviction.
Sadly, I agree.
Sadly too, is that it is the supposed church that tells them sin is "no problem".
 
Man by nature loves darkness rather than light, thats a condemnation, man by nature is dead and cant do anything about it.
I praise and thank the Lord Jesus for allowing me to know you are wrong.
All man have access to repentance from sin, and rebirth from God's seed.
You don't have to keep the old man's nature.
 
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