Information on legislative issues, meetings, conventions, and municipal job openings.

lsenders@hotmail.com wrote:

> and this is a wrong use of the word "foreknowledge." Again, do a word
> study and see how it is used in scripture. It is not about
> *pre*viewing. God didn't chose him based upon knowing his choice. It
> is all of grace, not of merit.
>

Receiving a FREE gift is not meritorious.

Gary McNees

((( s.r.c.b-s is a moderated group. All posts are approved by a moderator. )))
((( Read http://srcbs.org for details about this group BEFORE you post. )))

gkmcnees@comcast.net wrote:


>> The issue is whether "regeneration" is "enabling" and vv.
>>
>> And it is. If God "enables" me to believe, then that
>> enablement is the giving of new life. When I'm dead
>> in sin, I sure can't believe, so God has to regenerate me
>> _before_ I can choose.
>>
>
>
> The ONLY problem with what you say is that it contradicts
> Scripture. Scripture says the opposite. So I'll stick with
> Scripture.

Since we're arguing here about what Scripture says, you've
done nothing here except declare yourself the winner by fiat.

I remain unconvinced.



> John 12:36 "While you have the light, believe in the light, that you
> may become sons of light."
>
> One is a "son of light" if one has been regenerated.

So where does it say that "being a son of light" is the same
as "being regenerated"? Regeneration refers to new _birth_,
not "new maturity". It's the beginning of something, not
the end.



> Next, James 1:18 He chose to give us birth through the word of truth,
> that we might be a kind of firstfruits of all he created.
>
> We are born again "through the word of truth." Not before we
> hear it.

1. It says "He" chose, not us. Take note of that.

2. You're separating things which ought not to be separated.
No one said that new birth happens after we hear the Word. The
issue is whether A. we make a free choice upon hearing the Word, or
B. the Word effects our change of heart.

The right answer is B.

> John 1:12 Yet to all who received him, to those who believed in his
> name, he gave the right to become children of God—

So? It is by siting their good works that Jesus distinguishes
the sheep from the goats. This verse doesn't say anything like
"belief causes salvation." It only says that belief is the
indication of salvation.



> How in the world do you answer a persons question,
>
> "What must I do to be saved?"
>
> I guess you cannot answer as the inspired Apostle did:

Both Jesus and Peter knew it was a bad question. And as a
profe