Being a Savior doesn’t mean man has no part. I was a trained life guard and the person you rescue always has a part to play. If men have no responsibility then preaching makes no sense and judgement after life is cruel.
Yes, that is exactly what it means and cruel is your judgment, deserved is mine - all are guilty before God and worthy of death, period. You used the wrong analogy in the above. the person in jeopardy isn't drowning, they're dead, and a dead person cannot contribute to being brought back to life. They're at the mercy of someone else, so much at their mercy, that they aren't even aware they're dead.
Preaching does definitively make sense because is by that method that God chose to give to those born-again
knowledge of Christ.
[Col 2:13 KJV]
13 And you,
being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, hath
he quickened together with him, having forgiven you all trespasses;
[1Co 1:20-21 KJV]
20 Where [is] the wise? where [is] the scribe? where [is] the disputer of this world? hath not
God made foolish the wisdom of this world?
21 For after that in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God,
it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe.
[Eph 4:11-13 KJV]
11 And he gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers;
12 For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ:
13
Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ:
That’s not what it says. The other ground had no root in themselves or the cares of this life affected them. Three produced a plant btw.
[Mat 13:8 KJV] 8 But other
fell into good ground, and brought forth fruit, some an hundredfold, some sixtyfold, some thirtyfold.
What you don’t do is how this comes about but you assume God “sovereignly” (and meanly) just shuts eyes and ears. This is NOT what it says. You know, the disciples asked to understand. The others didn’t.
Observe the word "given" in the below verses. Given to some - those elected to salvation, not given to others - everyone else.
[Mat 13:11 KJV]
11 He answered and said unto them,
Because it is given unto you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it is not given.
[Mar 4:11-12 KJV]
11 And he said unto them,
Unto you it is given to know the mystery of the kingdom of God: but unto them that are without, all [these] things are done in parables:
12 That seeing they may see,
and not perceive; and hearing they may hear, and not understand; lest at any time they should be converted,
and [their] sins should be forgiven them.
[Luk 8:10 KJV]
10 And he said, Unto
you it is given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of God: but to others in parables; that
seeing they might not see, and hearing they might not understand.
They are. But the account of David’s conception fits scripture in other places whereas your rendering doesn’t.
I don't know what you're referring to, but validity in the Bible is not a numbers game. If it's there
and other like verses harmonize with it and don't contradict it, then that is sufficient.
No where does the Bible say this. And experience is that children naturally believe in God.
Where:
[Eph 1:17-18 KJV]
17 That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory,
may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him:
18 The
eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints,
(the "his brother" is Christ)
[1Jo 2:11 KJV]
11 But he that hateth his brother is in darkness, and walketh in darkness, and knoweth not whither he goeth,
because that darkness hath blinded his eyes.
[Mar 3:34-35 KJV]
34 And he looked round about on them which sat about him, and said,
Behold my mother and my brethren!
35 For whosoever shall do the will of God,
the same is my brother, and my sister, and mother.
He didn’t. God loved Esau
[Rom 9:13 KJV]
13 As it is written,
Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated.
No babies are born speaking anything at all. It’s a fact. You’re understanding is off. It’s a typical Jewish hyperbole. God isn’t a sandstone rock and Jesus isn’t a screen door. Cutting off hands won’t prevent sin. Paul didn’t whip his body. Jews use hyperbole.
There you go again setting the Bible at naught and misrepresenting it. What the Bible contains, God Himself had specifically desired and caused to be written in it for a specific purpose, period - you're making up scripture as you go along and thereby are adding to scripture
[2Ti 3:16 KJV]
16
All scripture [is] given by inspiration of God, and [is] profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:
Where does it say all are born in sin?
[Rom 3:9-10 KJV]
9 What then? are we better [than they]? No, in no wise: for we have before proved both
Jews and Gentiles, that they are all under sin;
10 As it is written, There is
none righteous, no, not one:
[Rom 7:14 KJV]
14 For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal,
sold under sin.
[Gal 3:22 KJV]
22 But the scripture hath
concluded all under sin, that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ might be given to them that believe.