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To: daniel1212; stanne

No; he’s correct. The only directive is to preach, and Jesus emphasizes over and over that it’s the Father that initiates the conversion process. Acts 2:47 is very clear on that point.

Particularly ponder the circumstances of Paul’s conversion.


183 posted on 09/07/2024 10:38:51 AM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: Olog-hai
No; he’s correct. The only directive is to preach, and Jesus emphasizes over and over that it’s the Father that initiates the conversion process. Acts 2:47 is very clear on that point. Particularly ponder the circumstances of Paul’s conversion.

No; he is INcorrect, as has been made abundantly manifestly evident.

The fact that God can convert souls apart from any direct human action, as is supposed with Paul (who was sent by the Lord to Ananias for the laying on of hands, healing, filling with the Spirit, commissioning, baptism - Acts 9:17; Acts 22:12-16) would not make that a norm, which is that humans are agents of conviction by the Spirit, and of instructions on conversion.

No man can take any credit for conversion, seeing as it is God who enables and motivates souls to do what they otherwise could not and would not do, obeying Romans 10:9,10. However, that simply does not mean that " No where in Christianity is there a directive to convert people." "No where. Nowhere in schristianity does it say to convert people." "Please provide an example of such a conversion" "None. None of which instructs us to convert people." "I have seen no factual evidence here or anywhere that Christian’s are to convert other people." ‘Bro’ it does not say ‘convert people’.

266 posted on 09/07/2024 6:25:43 PM PDT by daniel1212 (Turn 2 the Lord Jesus who saves damned+destitute sinners on His acct, believe, b baptized+follow HIM)
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