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Bob Felts wrote:
> Gary McNees wrote:

>>>What you miss is that God's enabling is brought about by a change of
>>>nature -- and a different nature results in different decisions.
>>
>>No this is not what I "miss." This is pure eisegesis. It is based upon
>>your theology, not on Scripture, for it contradicts Scripture.
>
>
> Jeremiah disagrees with you: "Can the Ethiopian change his skin or the
> leopard its spots? Neither can you do good who are accustomed to doing
> evil." [13:23].

What you do is the constant ploy of the Calvinist. I have not said that
any person can change his nature. God does the changing of our natures.
What I said is that man can receive a free gift. There is an infinite
difference between receiving a billion dollars as a free gift and making
the billion.

> Rom 8:7-8 says the same thing. Man must be changed in
> order for man to follow God -- and man cannot effect that change.

I agree wholeheartedly. The gift of salvation from God is what changes
the man. Man simply receives it by faith in Christ. Why do you insist on
disbelieving Christ????

John 12:36 "While you have the light, believe in the light, that you
may become sons of light." You certainly do not believe this, for you
insist that one first is regenerated/become a son and THEN one believes,
but God says the opposite.


>>Jeremiah 31:3 The LORD hath appeared of old unto me, saying, Yea, I
>>have loved thee with an everlasting love: therefore with lovingkindness
>>have I drawn thee.
>
>
> And who is the object of His love in this passage? It is Israel, aka
> the elect.

Were there not people such as Job who were drawn who were not of Israel?
A single example disproves your assertion.

>>This is very opposite of what Calvinism teaches. Calvinism "draws"
>>without love. It changes without the will of the drawn, and in fact
>>against the will of the drawn. For according to Calvinism, all will
>>against such "drawing" till God has changed them unilaterally. This
>>"drawing" is against the will of the drawn.
>
>
> Of course it is. To be in the presence of God is to be destroyed; the
> natural man cannot handle that. That's why the message of the cross is
> to those who are perishing foolishness.

Please! You are not "in the presence of God now, are you?"
The one's perishing are the ones who refuse to believe. They are ALL
taught by God, they are ALL drawn to Christ, but many refuse to learn
and come.


>>According to Scripture, faith comes through hearing the word of God,
>>and believing it. According to Calvinism, f