[P-Marlowe]

Very worldly aren't you?
But since you aren't familiar with God's Word, you assumed logic.
Post after post you've shown how ill informed you are
so, you are not allowed any more of my God-GIVEN time.

Hmmmm. Perhaps I must have said something to P/$$ you off. If so, I apologize.

Perhaps I should rephrase my last comment.

The scriptures speak of God hardening hearts and replacing hearts. I don't recall seeing anything about softening hearts.

Can you show me a single scripture that would indicate that by reading the word of God a man's heart of stone can be softened such that it would make him more willing to follow Christ?

I can't seem to find any intermediary steps. As I understand scripture, God takes our hearts of stone and gives us new hearts. It is only after we have new hearts that we truly seek after God.

Since you don't think I know anything about scripture, perhaps you can take some of that God given time and enlighten me and the lurkers on the thread.

BTW I am a 62 year old veteran of the Jesus movement. I was an Arminian for about 40 of those years thinking, like you, that when I came to Christ it was because I decided to come to Christ. I only recently admitted to myself that it was Christ who chose me and not the other way around.

I know all the Arminian arguments. Check my posting history, I am a veteran of the Cal/Arm wars here and I spent years on these threads trying to dispute the Calvinist theology. Eventually God got it through my thick skull that I was kicking against the pricks and that the idea that I was in any way responsible for my own salvation was utter folly. It is all a work of God.

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Eventually God got it through my thick skull that I was kicking against the pricks and that the idea that I was in any way responsible for my own salvation was utter folly. It is all a work of God.

Nope. It's all about you.

I think it's the A you got in Constitutional Law that really turned His head. And He likes that you chose a house in the suburbs instead of the city.

Those are all why you're saved and the C student down the lane isn't.

/sarc

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Perhaps I must have said something to P/$$ you off. If so, I apologize.

Perhaps your assessments are wrong and perhaps the more TRUTH I post is the reason for needing 'to scrutinize me' and ignore SCRIPTURE. It appears the TRUTH is repulsive to you - so apologize to God not me.