[RnMomof7]

A bump to my list

[biblewonk]

Lately the most interesting thing about debating predestination with people is the spirit or attitude of their response. When people start blathering during a discussion on Christian doctrine, that tells me a lot about that person and their understanding of Christian doctrine.

[oldcodger]

Thanks for the ping, RnMomof7.

Add me to the list.

Salvation by grace, through faith is not of ourselves in the sense of being the result of our own power. We are bound to view salvation as being as surely a divine act as creation, or providence, or resurrection. At every point of the process of salvation this word is appropriate--"not of yourselves." From the first desire after it to the full reception of it by faith, it is evermore of the Lord alone, and not of ourselves. The man believes, but that belief is only one result among many of the implantation of divine life within the man's soul by God Himself.
C.H. Spurgeon, sermon "All of Grace", Oct. 7, 1915