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To: armydoc
For a person to "want to be saved" takes a unilateral act of God to change the person's nature; to change his heart of stone that is incapable of desiring salvation to a heart of flesh that realizes his wretched condition and responds with repentance and faith (regeneration precedes faith).

Why would you have to repent since God forced you to desire salvation??? You didn't have any choice in the matter...You're a robot...

33 posted on 04/11/2018 5:23:22 PM PDT by Iscool
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To: Iscool
Why would you have to repent since God forced you to desire salvation???

Because God ordains both the end and the means to the end. He has ordained repentance and faith as the means to salvation. I find it fascinating that someone would find the concept of God's complete sovereignty so repulsive.
36 posted on 04/11/2018 6:03:50 PM PDT by armydoc
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