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So now YOU are admitting that totally depraved, non-regenerate humans can ask a perfectly holy and proper question: "What must I do to be saved?"

You're being obtuse and dishonest. What's the point of posting if you refuse to read? Apparently you think caves open when someone says "Open Sesame", rabbits must jump out of tophats when the word "Abracadabra" is uttered, and a person actually wants the true gospel when they mouth the words "What must I do to be saved."

I'm not being dishonest about anything. You all have been leading me down a rabbit's trail and now a simple question about the ordo salutis in the Philippian Jailer story gets spun rather than answered.

1. Paul & Silas in Jail
2. Singing and praising and earthquake
3. Scared, CONVICTED, totally depraved Jailer asks "What must I do to be saved?"
4. Paul says, "Believe in the Lord Jesus...
5. .....THEN you will be Saved.

This guy is clearly not a saved guy, because Paul says he WILL BE saved.

This is a depraved guy who gets "convicted" BEFORE salvation.

He's told he must "believe"BEFORE salvation.

And now that I look at it, it's the same sequence with the crowd on the day of Pentecost and with the Ethiopian Eunuch and Philip.

I will consider any reasonable answer that TRULY takes all this into account without tap dancing and gyrating around the sequence of the story.