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To: D-fendr

“Thanks, but I don’t see the explanation for why we don’t see a world comprised only of demons and angels..”


Only if you’re still fighting the strawman that the Reformists teach that man is ruled by compulsion, rather than necessity owing to their nature. If the regenerate have a new nature, though with an old man still clinging to it, it stands to reason that they are still capable of sin, though their new man walks with God.

Rom 7:22-23 For I delight in the law of God after the inward man: (23) But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.

And unless you disbelieve Christ when He says that there is “no one good, save God,” then you certainly cannot argue that mankind is good. And if they are not good, then they must be wholly bad.


50 posted on 06/29/2013 8:58:55 PM PDT by Greetings_Puny_Humans
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To: Greetings_Puny_Humans

I’m just not seeing what the theology claims as either/or.

Either we are in the snare of the devil or held captive in the will of God as you said.

Is there some back and forth from captive of devil to God in our not-free choices?


51 posted on 06/29/2013 9:04:56 PM PDT by D-fendr (Deus non alligatur sacramentis sed nos alligamur.)
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To: Greetings_Puny_Humans
if they are not good, then they must be wholly bad.

Your logical mind must see this as an error, right?

53 posted on 06/29/2013 9:08:56 PM PDT by D-fendr (Deus non alligatur sacramentis sed nos alligamur.)
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