Men rarely notice anything they aren't drawn to, either by God, Surprise or, fear. I believe that the Natural man doesn't seek God without being drawn although men have been saved by accidentally hearing the word preached. To know the answer and know you had a chance to prevent it and didn't, is a kind of hell of it's own.Īs far as Semi-Pelagianism and Arminianism, I've been labled as both. I love telling them about my savior anyway weather they want to hear it or not because if they reject Him they will know why they suffer when they do. Believe me to have that kind of hate inside you makes you very miserable. They didn't want to be told they are inefficient in there own happiness. I personaly know of men who hate God simply because they were convicted by the message of God and still rebelled. Preaching to the lost can save some and make the natural man hate God all the more. Other wise there is no reason to preach to the masses. If we are to preach to every living creature it's because men can hear and understand the gospel. In fact the opposite is true which is why we are told to preach the gospel to every living creature. The Bible doesn't ever say man is unable to respond to the gospel. I find that the tulip for instance is completely unprovable and isn't even biblical. Therefore man had better hope he isn't reprobate as Total depravity is said to be. If reprobate is the case then God will not save any of us because we have all been abandoned by Him. Which means rejected and abandoned to sin. Calvinism claims natural men are reprobates. I disagree that man is unable to respond to the gospel as Calvinism states that it means.
5:12).Ĭlick to expand.While I readily agree that man is a sinner and is depraved.
If anyone asserts that Adam's sin affected him alone and not his descendants also, or at least if he declares that it is only the death of the body which is the punishment for sin, and not also that sin, which is the death of the soul, passed through one man to the whole human race, he does injustice to God and contradicts the Apostle, who says, "Therefore as sin came into the world through one man and death through sin, and so death spread to all men because all men sinned" (Rom. 6:16) and, "For whatever overcomes a man, to that he is enslaved" (2 Pet. 18:20) and, "Do you not know that if you yield yourselves to anyone as obedient slaves, you are the slaves of the one whom you obey?" (Rom. If anyone denies that it is the whole man, that is, both body and soul, that was "changed for the worse" through the offense of Adam's sin, but believes that the freedom of the soul remains unimpaired and that only the body is subject to corruption, he is deceived by the error of Pelagius and contradicts the scripture which says, "The soul that sins shall die" (Ezek.
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