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Inviting Christ into one's heart is blasphemy. Returning to God, repenting (turning away from ) sin, allowing the Holy Spirit to find something worthy or righteousness, namely faith thereby allows His indwelling which provides a Shekinah Glory for the indwelling of Christ.

How can one "return to God" if he was never His in the first place? We're talking about the unsaved, here, Cvengr. Do try to keep up. Allowing the Holy Spirit to find something worthy or righteous in an unregenerate man? In an unregenerate man? In an UNREGENERATE MAN??? Are you serious? There is nothing, NOT ONE THING, of any value or worth, or possessing any righteousness whatsoever in the heart of an unregenerate man. He is depraved, he is a filthy sinner, completely bereft of anything acceptable to God! Even the faith which an unregenerate man possess is not acceptable to God, defiled and tainted as it is by the man's unregenerate nature and condition. Your statement is ludicrous, and a clearly not biblical.

You really do need to learn a few things, Cvengr. You aren't even making sense.

Perhaps this may help a bit. For the regenerate man who has fallen out of fellowship with God, the solution is confession, repentence from sin and a return to God so He may return to us.

For the unregenerate man, the solution remains the same. Going to God and understanding how one might have a relationship with Him on His terms. That method is provided via the Gospel with faith in the Son and through the sacrifice of the Son, the penalty for sin has been paid en full. To lay claim to those blessings available to the whole world, one must first have faith in God through Christ.

Faith has its merit in the object, not the subject. This faith in Christ is what may be used because it is not a work, but faith alone for God to perform all the work of salvation.

Faith in God by the unregenerate man is made valid by God for salvation.

The following brash statement made from outside any fellowship with God should never blind the man who seeks to have a relationship with God, to have eternal life, to avoid everlasting torment and damnation, or to understand Christianity :

"Even the faith which an unregenerate man possess is not acceptable to God, defiled and tainted as it is by the man's unregenerate nature and condition."(A false statement)

The call is made by the Father. When Christ witnessed and communed with those yet reborn, he did so as to communicate the Gospel and encourage faith. His ministry wasn't wasteful.

I encourage you to read more Scripture with guidance from Him, than from 'Calvinists'. A false religion has been purported by their 'reasoning' which will scar the souls or unregenerate and regenerate alike.