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So many people here do not accept what the Bible says. It's almost scary. Like the thread about not permitting women to hold positions of teaching authority over men. It so plainly worded yet it's astounding how many people just toss it aside.
What I'm saying is man can not do anything that God has not first allowed. Nobody in their free will is frustrating the plans of God. Nobody even has any free will in a matter until God allows them to have it. And we think we're so free. We're only as free as a rat in a maze that has been carefully laid out and controlled by the free will of the one who made it. Our free will operates inside of God's sovereignty.
If and when and where God allows it. This is what I'm getting at. Man has free will, but only in the sphere of God's will. It's that seemingly contradictory truth that, both, man and God have free will. Neither Calvinism, nor Freewill doctrines answer this seeming contradiction, because they don't think it can exist. I'm showing you it does!
Meet me in New Delhi at 4:30 local time and we'll discuss it further.
Sought to kill them? No, he did!
Right, it determines if Frank and Martha (cute couple by the way) have the opportunity to receive and believe the testimony of the Holy Spirit. They can't exercise the free will to do that until God gives them the free will to do that.
Then why did God have to open her heart to respond? Acts 16:14.
I gave you the evidence. People can believe and be saved when God opens the door of faith to them, through the hearing of the word.
God knows which parts of the maze to open up to a person, and when to do that, and which parts to close off to a person, and when to do that. And he knows what kind of cheese to use to get you go into the parts that are open. We're like rats in a maze. We run about freely wherever God has allowed us to run about freely.
I was raised in churches that had female pastors . I came her as such .now I don't agree with it .
Who said that was Job's creation , God was asking Job where was he at that time ?Are you a son of God and His stars? The verse clearly states that we were with God when He created this earth
What was satans sin and when did it take place ?
What part of scripture says women can't teach ?
You do not know? Do you think the timing is important? I suppose so since you think God had to change to "plan B."
God did not kill Cain and he murdered. That the outcome or wages of sin is death does not mean it is either instant nor that God Himself then sets about killing the perpetrator.
No, that verse says the opposite of what you want it to say. The "sons of God" in that reference is to other created beings same as in Job when the sons of God paraded before the throne in heaven human beings were not a part of that assembly.
One has to ask oneself which is worse, a spirit of stupor or having your free will ripped from you. In this view expressed above, there are those with a spirit of stupor but have free will to make choices or there are those who do not have a spirit of stupor but have no free will and are in a cage of someone else's choices. Hard to choose which cage is worse.
A prophet or a prophetess is not one who teaches as an office. They might teach now and again, but that is not their office.
Except there is no evidence or scripture that He does this as you state. You have a full on manipulation going on which the outcome in lives is evidence that this fails too often which means it does not happen. However, there is a moving of circumstances that does take place by His hand in what is more like what happens when a man woes a women. It is gentle and resistible and yet not easily discouraged.
We are not like rats in a cage. The limits to our freedom are those we know of in the natural world set up since the beginning. (We cannot fly if we jump off a bridge for instance.) He makes available truth and calls us to seek it. If we refuse He calls again later. But as I said, since many fail to come to him, many refuse his calling. Many are called but few become chosen.
No that is not how it happens and the scriptures do not say it is so. The Lord decided the whole of the gentile world was now to be reached and started that. It was not for individuals. God wants all men to be saved and is calling all men. He does not enable some and not others to have faith. Faith is a choice a man makes. God is not giving them faith nor manipulating them. This is cruel.
This is referring to hearing by people preaching. Notice Paul did not say "how can they believe in the One of whom they have not been infused with faith by him, unbidden?" He did not think God infuses faith into some or opens the door of faith but that men need to hear the Gospel when other men tell them that. Why is this not clear? Hearing is with the human ears, not God giving them suddenly special ears.
No, no man is saved when God calls. A man is saved when he repents of his sin, asks forgiveness and is forgiven and surrenders his life to God. God calls a lot..many are called. But not all called are then saved. We all have free will all the time including free will to fulfill God's desire for us in many matters.