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To: P-Marlowe
So if someone goes forward at a Billy Graham Crusade and really wants to have his sins forgiven and really wants to please God and really wants to walk with Jesus, really wants to be born again and sincerely prays for salvation, then you would have to conclude that he is, in fact, already regenerated, as no one could possibly do those things unless they were regenerated?

Yes.

If a man's heart truly inclines towards God, it is because God in His regeneration has caused the man's heart to incline towards God.

224 posted on 10/20/2004 7:14:18 PM PDT by OrthodoxPresbyterian (We are Unworthy Servants; We have only done Our Duty)
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To: OrthodoxPresbyterian
A codicil should be offered here -- when we talk about "if someone goes forward at a Billy Graham Crusade and really wants to have his sins forgiven", we must reserve that not everyone who goes forward at a Billy Graham crusade really believes in Jesus in his heart. *Some* do, certainly (those whom God has Regenerated); but not necessarily everyone walkin' that aisle.

The unregenerate heart is deceitful and desperately wicked, and some will self-deceivingly seek "fire insurance" from a verbal "profession of faith" without genuine, regenerate, God-created True Faith in their hearts. (This is not only true of Billy Graham crusades, of course, and is not meant to single him out; False "professors of faith" are common to Churches and Evangelistic crusades of all sorts).

225 posted on 10/20/2004 7:22:16 PM PDT by OrthodoxPresbyterian (We are Unworthy Servants; We have only done Our Duty)
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