No, I am not saying some people have a natural righteousness. I am saying when God applies His grace, freeing the soul from the influence of the flesh (which I have explained a number of times now and you seem to keep conveniently forgetting), they are able choose according to their souls desire. We are effectively placed into the same position as Adam pre-fall, by God's grace. The soul (the essence of who you are as a person) is not created depraved, it is neutral in respect to good and evil. It learns to be depraved because it has a sin nature in the flesh and the imputation of Adam's sin ensures we are dead spiritually. If not for the grace of God, we would have no choice but become depraved.
And as I said previously, you have no Biblical support for these theories you hold.
Election onto salvation is indeed a Biblical teaching and you conveniently choose to ignore it's existence.
I'm not sure how this relates to what I said.
I am pretty sure I have already explained to you not everyone gets them same degree of revelation. The Romans 1 type never gets past what we might term "first contact". That level is not even personal. It is the recognition of eternal power and deity, yet rather than pursue the revelation, they reject it for a natural explanation.
This contradicts your 1st paragraph in essence.
Why does God not give everyone the same revelation. Your statement is that all do not receive the same degree.
You then come up with stuff not found in the Bible, like 1st contact etc.
Where is a Biblical teaching that some people recognize a 1st level of revelation and then pursue a higher revelation?
God is truth. All truth is objective.
Correct. Do Muslims have this objective truth?
What we believe as truth (subjective) may or may not be truth.
Because it comes from self and not God.
This is why the act of our believing (an exercise of our volition) has no merit but rather the object of our believing (the Lord Jesus Christ) is where the power unto salvation lies.
Mormons and Jehovah witnesses will all tell you they believe in Christ as the object of salvation.
That is an exercise of their volition. It is meaningless.
We are to take our experience to the scriptures and the whole realm of doctrine.
What experience?
Is this a pre or post salvation experience?
If a post salvation experience, how did you manage by an exercise of your own volition to pick the right Jesus as not the wrong one as the Mormons do?
None of us are perfected in knowledge (yet) which is why we must humble ourselves and be ever willing to be corrected.
Correct. As long as self and freedom of will and the nature of man is in the way we cannot humble ourselves, because these thing are well, in the way of humbling ourselves.
You can only say that because of the grace of God.
Well, if you are saying you can reject objective truth by the grace of God, then I do not understand.
Don't you not think it a lot more logically consistent that God by His grace chooses who to reveal Himself to whom He wills:
Mat 11:25 At that time Jesus declared, “I thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that you have hidden these things from the wise and understanding and revealed them to little children;
Mat 11:26 yes, Father, for such was your gracious will.
Mat 11:27 All things have been handed over to me by my Father, and no one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son
and anyone to whom the Son chooses to reveal him.
What is Jesus saying here is the gracious will of the Father?
