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    Can We Really Exercise Free Will?

    So in your universe, "destruction" is heaven? Do a word study on the term "destruction" if you can find a concordance.
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    Can We Really Exercise Free Will?

    The elect! Who else. See Rom 8:29:30.
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    Can We Really Exercise Free Will?

    God might have whacked them hard upside the head. That could have been one way to intimidate them.
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    Can We Really Exercise Free Will?

    And your point is??? God clearly determined to save Eve in Gen 3:15, didn't he? And he determined to make Pharaoh a hardened reprobate, didn't He? And He was determined to not only prohibit Balaam from cursing Israel but "forced" him to bless His people, didn't He? Will you ever seek a cure...
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    Can We Really Exercise Free Will?

    For your info, it's called Divine Providence that has its source in the Divine Will.
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    Can We Really Exercise Free Will?

    Question: Just what "waters" would that be?
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    Can We Really Exercise Free Will?

    Again, read the Parable of the Great Banquet in Lk 14 and learn about the insufficiency of a mere outward call of the gospel. The gospel invitations reveal the disposition of God's heart and the commands in the bible reveal man's moral/spiritual responsibility to his Creator.
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    Can We Really Exercise Free Will?

    Translate: You don't have the first clue what the Corinthians received or from whom they received it.
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    Can We Really Exercise Free Will?

    Only to a twisted, perverse, depraved mind would such a mind even be able to postulate such buffoonery.
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    Can We Really Exercise Free Will?

    The chain of God's salvation can easily be seen in Rom 8:29-30. Notice that the "call" is the third item in the chain and precedes faith (justification). Also, read the Parable of the Banquet in Lk 14 wherein the Master's servant FORCED people to attend since all those who were outwardly...
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    Can We Really Exercise Free Will?

    I already answered that previously. Pay attention. Answer the question: What did the Corinthians receive and from whom?
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    Can We Really Exercise Free Will?

    So...since you say there is "no reconciliation decree" in Gen 3:15, then Eve in her state of sin remained at once an enemy of God and an enemy of the devil. Eve hated both good and evil. And in your world, this makes sense. And I posted the evidence for Eve's faith. She, UNLIKE ADAM...
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    Can We Really Exercise Free Will?

    So what did the Corinthians receive and from whom? It seems to me there are far more than a few passages in the bible that expounds on all the various gifts God gives to his elect via his grace. Jn 3:16 for example.
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    Can We Really Exercise Free Will?

    Then if God is not looking to change our nature, what's the big deal about our glorification? Also, will the glorified saints in the eternal New Order have the ability to sin or not?
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    Can We Really Exercise Free Will?

    Yada, yada, yada. You insist on multiplying words without knowledge! Just answer this question: Will the glorified saints in the eternal New Order have the ability to sin? YES or NO!
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    Can We Really Exercise Free Will?

    Clearly you don't understand my tagline. I understand very well God's "power of grace". But FWers do NOT understand this power of grace the way you wrote it above. Look at Mr. Studier's recent post wherein he essentially wrote that men are FREE to accept or reject not the only the gospel but...
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    Can We Really Exercise Free Will?

    So...do you believe that God has "freewill" since He cannot make choices contrary to his holy nature?
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    Can We Really Exercise Free Will?

    But God helps the children of light and the children of darkness to get out of bed every morning. As pointed out previously, God has numbered the days of all men w/o exception. Therefore, the ability or desire for anyone to rise and shine in the morning is a function of his Common Grace. And...
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    Can We Really Exercise Free Will?

    No, I don't actually. You must have been on drugs that day and saw things that weren't in my post. I know one thing about 1Cor 4 and it's something you personally HATE: God makes the difference either directly or indirectly through secondary causes. God has given to his elect by His grace...
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    Can We Really Exercise Free Will?

    Well stated! FWers view "free" incompletely. To their naive minds "free" (or freedom) is just a one-sided coin, i.e. free TO and they totally ignore the fact that true freedom is to be free FROM whatever it is that encumbers or enslaves man's volition, which of course is the power of sin. The...