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To: FatherofFive

I am not up for a debate on the five points. I’m amidst a busy week. All I will say is that verse is a weak response to John 6:44. I’m embarrassed to say that’s just the kind of response I used to have. A careful look at the text reveals that John 3:16 teaches that everyone who believes in Christ will be saved. Whoever believes will receive everlasting life. The text says nothing, absolutely nothing, about who will ever believe. It says nothing about fallen man’s natural moral ability to believe. Reformed people and non-Reformed people both heartily agree that all who believe will be saved.

By the way, in John 6:44, Christ HIMSELF said: “No man can come to Me unless the Father who hath sent Me draw him; and I will raise him up at the Last Day.”

No man can come to Me unless God...


29 posted on 05/28/2014 9:07:14 PM PDT by .45 Long Colt
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To: .45 Long Colt
All I will say is that verse is a weak response to John 6:44.

You throw one verse, and I threw another, but somehow the verse I used was deficient to the one you used. Interesting logic you use.

But the reality is those two verses are in conflict. Your theology must bring all of Scripture together. You simply cannot ignore a verse that doesn't comport to your man-made beliefs.

Later

And by the way, Christ HIMSELF said "This IS my body" a number of

60 posted on 05/29/2014 8:13:07 AM PDT by FatherofFive (Islam is evil and must be eradicated)
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