[HarleyD]

Ahh, but you have already read them and dismissed them — so I will not waste my time listing then for you.

Like everything in scripture, nothing is dismiss. I would suggest you're misreading it.

As for "free will", just an interspective question, did you choose to be saved? Did you, on your own accord, say you were going to live a righteous life and follow Christ?

Just think about it. The Jews, after all, are the CHOOSEN people.

John 6:44 No one can come to Me unless the Father who sent Me draws him; and I will raise him up on the last day. 45 It is written in the prophets, ‘And they shall all be taught of God.’ Everyone who has heard and learned from the Father, comes to Me.

[JAG 5000]

“Ahh, but you have already read them and dismissed them — so I will not waste my time listing then for you.
Like everything in scripture, nothing is dismiss. I would suggest you’re misreading it.

As for “free will”, just an interspective question, did you choose to be saved? Did you, on your own accord, say you were going to live a righteous life and follow Christ?

Just think about it. The Jews, after all, are the CHOOSEN people.

John 6:44 No one can come to Me unless the Father who sent Me draws him; and I will raise him up on the last day. 45 It is written in the prophets, ‘And they shall all be taught of God.’ Everyone who has heard and learned from the Father, comes to Me.___HarleyD

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* Believe it or not , I understand ALL that up there.

* I have on my desk The Reformed Doctrine Of Predestination by
Dr. Loraine Boettner.
I have read it dozens of times over the decades.

* I am very familiar with Calvinistic books and doctrines.

* God’s absolute Sovereignty AND man’s Free Will are
BOTH taught in Holy Scripture.

* The correct position is to affirm BOTH and NOT
to select one, to the exclusion of the other.

* “Did I choose to be saved?”
Answer is both Yes & No.
No if you mean did I originate my salvation process
totally apart from God.
Yes if you mean did I use my Free Will to choose
to accept the Lord Jesus as my personal Savior.

* The BIG problem with both
{1} Calvinism
and
{2} Arminianism
is that they BOTH deny
a vital Biblical doctrine.

* By the time some Calvinists get through
with the Biblical doctrine of Free Will
-— it no longer exists.

* By the time some Arminians get through
with the Sovereignty Of God -— it no longer
exists.

* BOTH these are
true:
{1} God’s Soveregnty.
{2} Man’s Free Will

Best.

JAG

Scot me up Beamy.

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