InTruth
04-07-2010, 05:20 AM
Man is not regenerated by doing something special but by believing the Lord Jesus as his Savior: "to all who received him, who believed in his name, he gave the power to become children of God; who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God" (John 1.12-13). First you must be willing to "receive him" then you may "become children of God" NOT the other way around. There is not some regeneration before salvation, for salvation is regeneration. "Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost" (Tit. 3.5). "Saved us" here is "washing of regeneration". To be regenerated/saved one must do what? "Believe in his name"; NOT assume pridefully you were irresistibly regenerated and without prior having had to believe on Him. For that is a selfish salvation.
Calvinists accuse Christians of believing in Jesus and call that a work while your work is to assume you were irresistibly regenerated and pridefully claim there was nothing you could do about it. You can't have it both ways. Assuming is your wage. Where is the mercy in that? Then you wield over others you claim from birth were bound for Hell and likewise there was nothing they could do about it. And you call that mercy? It's evil for you to act this way towards fellow man then why not your god? How can his standards be lower than man's unless he is Satan or some other evil spirit?
God's mercy is by what Jesus did for you on the cross for the sins of the whole world, but alas, you refuse His saving grace, by pridefully assuming you were irresistibly regenerated instead of truly repenting and believing in Christ to be regenerated. How sad for you. A selfish salvation is what you prefer and so God doesn't save you. Since the next door neighbor could have believed on Him and doesn't he is without excuse. There is no pride associated to the Christian because another person is going to Hell such as yourself like that next door neighbor for refusing to give your life to Christ by worshiping a false Christ when you pridefully assumed you were irresistibly selected. How pompous! You're blaming the Christian because you refuse to give your life to Christ? when you could have just as easily repented and believed in Him to be regenerated. Do you see how Satan maligns the word of God?
From the beginning God foreknew whom He would choose, not by irresistibly regenerating but by providing us all the grace and mercy, to give us the choice. A choice which you refuse to truly come to the Lord!
To be sanctified is to be made holy before God, part of regeneration, which occurs once you believe in Christ. I can look back upon my salvation seeing I was sanctified by faith. By what? Faith. Faith can be freely obtained by us all. We can all take of the water of life freely. Even you. So it's high time you repented and believe in Christ to be regenerated and stop assuming you can't or it must be irresistibly imposed on you. There is no love in your false assumptions. I would be just as guilty as you are if I believed what you do.
You're not trusting in God, but a false Christ since the Christ you worship you claim irresistibly imposed regeneration on you instead of by the grace of God repenting and believing in Him: a grace that is sufficient for all, not just some.
This fanciful idea of assuming you possess is a work of your own doing and will not save you. You make yourself the savior of your own life by just assuming it into being instead of genuinely coming to the cross as a helpless sinner to receive the Lord Jesus as Savior.
God wants a relationship not with someone who wants a salvation with a sprinkling of pride. What pride you have you think you were irresistibly selected and others were born for Hell. What kind of god would provide someone no grace and opportunity to be saved? Don't you see that you worship Satan?
God has created all the conditions for you; that is to repent and believe on Him sincerely, coming to Him with an honest heart but alas, you are unwilling. It really is your own desire and way to assume you were regenerated.
God's act is never loving when He imposes it on someone or denies anyone the opportunity to be saved. Such a god would be evil-the god of Calvinism. What happened to you was the evil spirit made himself a facsimile of God's Spirit and you accepted any old spirit that came over you which obviously won't regenerate you.
No matter how many times you assumed you were and telling God you are, it's false because it was without you truly coming to the cross genuinely and repentantly as Christians did. Pride is the culprit here. You've got a salvation of pride and self-exaltation not a genuine conversion.
God grants everyone, but not everyone is willing. God draws everyone, but sadly many draw back to perdition such as Calvinists. God does not give someone eternal life by irresistibly imposing it on them by not giving them a choice to take of the water of life freely.
What you received was from Satan the gift of pride which you gladly take in when you assume you were regenerated and did not have to repent and believe in Christ TO BE regenerated. It's clear you never gave your life to Christ because you place your idol above all else that you were irresistibly regenerated instead of responding to God's provision that you may freely repent and believe in Him. If you say you couldn't have then you wouldn't have.
Christians would feel ugly inside if they were to believe what you do, yet you don't have a quickened conscience to sense this, for you worship a god that is unable or unwilling to provide sufficient grace for all: your god sends people to Hell from birth without recourse when it is not their fault they are born into sin; and a loving God should not impose salvation on someone, but would give the person the choice, because that is how God is. He is relational, synergistic, not monergistic and impersonal. And that is how we ought to be to one another also. How can God's morals be less than ours? Makes no sense.
Just know God of the Bible trumps your god because the latter is unable to provide sufficient grace for all. He is impotent and could never compare to the greatness and love of God. And just know that you don't have to keep priding yourself on being irresistibly selected, but actually can with the grace God has given you to repent and believe in the Lord Jesus as your Savior. Amen.
How can one know he is regenerated? John tells us man is born anew by his believing on the name of the Son of God and receiving Him (1.12). The name of God’s Son is “Jesus” which means “he will save his people from their sins” (Matt. 1.21). Believing on the name of the Son of God is hence equivalent to believing in Him as the Savior, believing that He died on the cross for our sins in order to free us from the penalty and power of sin. To so believe is to receive Him as Savior. If one desires to know whether he is regenerated or not, he simply need ask himself one question: Have I come to the cross as a helpless sinner and received the Lord Jesus as Savior? If he answers affirmatively he is regenerated. All who believe in the Lord Jesus are born anew.
But for the Calvinist he doesn't simply trust this word of God, but instead says the reason he is regenerated is because he was made to irresistibly. To the Calvinist, God is not the Savior of all men, specially those who believe. Christians consider this attitude of the Calvinist pompous and pride-filled, observing Calvinists self-exalt themselves over others they think are going to Hell from birth with no mercy or grace to even have the opportunity to be saved. I can't express to you enough, if you think that is love, think again.
It really wouldn't make much sense to God if He was the Savior of all men from calamities [but not sufficient enough to save them from Hell], specially those who believe.
Let us keep praying for the Calvinists for they know not what they do.
Very simply I am regenerated because I gave my life to Christ, but Calvinists haven't because they say can't unless their god irresistibly makes them to. God of the Bible provides sufficient grace for everyone to be able to, whereas the god of Calvinism is unable to, so God of the Bible trumps the god of Calvinism.
It really is that simple, so if you are a Calvinist still, you simply don't want to be saved God's way. You'd rather devise this facsimile that is mockery of Christianity. Calvinists think they found a loophole in the Bible, but many verses actually seal that hole. For example...
God is the "Savior of all men, specially those who believe" NOT "Savior of all men [to sustain men but not from Hell], specially those who believe". The "specially those who believe" are included in the "Savior of all men", yet some men included in "Savior of all men" are going to Hell. Do you see the contradiction? It's impossible to claim God is the Savior of all men though some for Hell AND specially those who believe BECAUSE nobody who believes is going to Hell.
Praise the Father by the Son through the Spirit of Truth for this discernment and revelation! Amen.
Calvinists accuse Christians of believing in Jesus and call that a work while your work is to assume you were irresistibly regenerated and pridefully claim there was nothing you could do about it. You can't have it both ways. Assuming is your wage. Where is the mercy in that? Then you wield over others you claim from birth were bound for Hell and likewise there was nothing they could do about it. And you call that mercy? It's evil for you to act this way towards fellow man then why not your god? How can his standards be lower than man's unless he is Satan or some other evil spirit?
God's mercy is by what Jesus did for you on the cross for the sins of the whole world, but alas, you refuse His saving grace, by pridefully assuming you were irresistibly regenerated instead of truly repenting and believing in Christ to be regenerated. How sad for you. A selfish salvation is what you prefer and so God doesn't save you. Since the next door neighbor could have believed on Him and doesn't he is without excuse. There is no pride associated to the Christian because another person is going to Hell such as yourself like that next door neighbor for refusing to give your life to Christ by worshiping a false Christ when you pridefully assumed you were irresistibly selected. How pompous! You're blaming the Christian because you refuse to give your life to Christ? when you could have just as easily repented and believed in Him to be regenerated. Do you see how Satan maligns the word of God?
From the beginning God foreknew whom He would choose, not by irresistibly regenerating but by providing us all the grace and mercy, to give us the choice. A choice which you refuse to truly come to the Lord!
To be sanctified is to be made holy before God, part of regeneration, which occurs once you believe in Christ. I can look back upon my salvation seeing I was sanctified by faith. By what? Faith. Faith can be freely obtained by us all. We can all take of the water of life freely. Even you. So it's high time you repented and believe in Christ to be regenerated and stop assuming you can't or it must be irresistibly imposed on you. There is no love in your false assumptions. I would be just as guilty as you are if I believed what you do.
You're not trusting in God, but a false Christ since the Christ you worship you claim irresistibly imposed regeneration on you instead of by the grace of God repenting and believing in Him: a grace that is sufficient for all, not just some.
This fanciful idea of assuming you possess is a work of your own doing and will not save you. You make yourself the savior of your own life by just assuming it into being instead of genuinely coming to the cross as a helpless sinner to receive the Lord Jesus as Savior.
God wants a relationship not with someone who wants a salvation with a sprinkling of pride. What pride you have you think you were irresistibly selected and others were born for Hell. What kind of god would provide someone no grace and opportunity to be saved? Don't you see that you worship Satan?
God has created all the conditions for you; that is to repent and believe on Him sincerely, coming to Him with an honest heart but alas, you are unwilling. It really is your own desire and way to assume you were regenerated.
God's act is never loving when He imposes it on someone or denies anyone the opportunity to be saved. Such a god would be evil-the god of Calvinism. What happened to you was the evil spirit made himself a facsimile of God's Spirit and you accepted any old spirit that came over you which obviously won't regenerate you.
No matter how many times you assumed you were and telling God you are, it's false because it was without you truly coming to the cross genuinely and repentantly as Christians did. Pride is the culprit here. You've got a salvation of pride and self-exaltation not a genuine conversion.
God grants everyone, but not everyone is willing. God draws everyone, but sadly many draw back to perdition such as Calvinists. God does not give someone eternal life by irresistibly imposing it on them by not giving them a choice to take of the water of life freely.
What you received was from Satan the gift of pride which you gladly take in when you assume you were regenerated and did not have to repent and believe in Christ TO BE regenerated. It's clear you never gave your life to Christ because you place your idol above all else that you were irresistibly regenerated instead of responding to God's provision that you may freely repent and believe in Him. If you say you couldn't have then you wouldn't have.
Christians would feel ugly inside if they were to believe what you do, yet you don't have a quickened conscience to sense this, for you worship a god that is unable or unwilling to provide sufficient grace for all: your god sends people to Hell from birth without recourse when it is not their fault they are born into sin; and a loving God should not impose salvation on someone, but would give the person the choice, because that is how God is. He is relational, synergistic, not monergistic and impersonal. And that is how we ought to be to one another also. How can God's morals be less than ours? Makes no sense.
Just know God of the Bible trumps your god because the latter is unable to provide sufficient grace for all. He is impotent and could never compare to the greatness and love of God. And just know that you don't have to keep priding yourself on being irresistibly selected, but actually can with the grace God has given you to repent and believe in the Lord Jesus as your Savior. Amen.
How can one know he is regenerated? John tells us man is born anew by his believing on the name of the Son of God and receiving Him (1.12). The name of God’s Son is “Jesus” which means “he will save his people from their sins” (Matt. 1.21). Believing on the name of the Son of God is hence equivalent to believing in Him as the Savior, believing that He died on the cross for our sins in order to free us from the penalty and power of sin. To so believe is to receive Him as Savior. If one desires to know whether he is regenerated or not, he simply need ask himself one question: Have I come to the cross as a helpless sinner and received the Lord Jesus as Savior? If he answers affirmatively he is regenerated. All who believe in the Lord Jesus are born anew.
But for the Calvinist he doesn't simply trust this word of God, but instead says the reason he is regenerated is because he was made to irresistibly. To the Calvinist, God is not the Savior of all men, specially those who believe. Christians consider this attitude of the Calvinist pompous and pride-filled, observing Calvinists self-exalt themselves over others they think are going to Hell from birth with no mercy or grace to even have the opportunity to be saved. I can't express to you enough, if you think that is love, think again.
It really wouldn't make much sense to God if He was the Savior of all men from calamities [but not sufficient enough to save them from Hell], specially those who believe.
Let us keep praying for the Calvinists for they know not what they do.
Very simply I am regenerated because I gave my life to Christ, but Calvinists haven't because they say can't unless their god irresistibly makes them to. God of the Bible provides sufficient grace for everyone to be able to, whereas the god of Calvinism is unable to, so God of the Bible trumps the god of Calvinism.
It really is that simple, so if you are a Calvinist still, you simply don't want to be saved God's way. You'd rather devise this facsimile that is mockery of Christianity. Calvinists think they found a loophole in the Bible, but many verses actually seal that hole. For example...
God is the "Savior of all men, specially those who believe" NOT "Savior of all men [to sustain men but not from Hell], specially those who believe". The "specially those who believe" are included in the "Savior of all men", yet some men included in "Savior of all men" are going to Hell. Do you see the contradiction? It's impossible to claim God is the Savior of all men though some for Hell AND specially those who believe BECAUSE nobody who believes is going to Hell.
Praise the Father by the Son through the Spirit of Truth for this discernment and revelation! Amen.