What does an unregenerate heart lack that keeps a person from coming to faith?

[Eternally-Grateful]

You have two points you have concerns with:

1) God descending down to redeem His people.

But his people did not receive him..

2) Is Faith a Gift from God or is it a human capability to choose God from a free-will standpoint.

faith is a gift from God. without God. no one would have anything to trust.

except self

Do I have this correctly before I retort?

 

[makesends]

Most, if not all, of us Reformation-minded monergists used to be synergists. We've ben where you are. We learned we misunderstood the theology. We learned it correctly and thereby changed our position(s). One thing we learned is that the Reformation povs go back at least as far as Augustine. What we preach is Augustinian, not (just) Calvinist. Luther, Calvin, Arminius, and all the rest, repeatedly referenced Augustine and built on his viewpoints. It was he who first argued the matter of volitionalism with any degree of formality, not Luther, Calvin, or Arminius (or Wesley or Flowers).

WHAT??? NOT FLOWERS????!!!!?

 

[Josheb]

WHAT??? NOT FLOWERS????!!!!?

Nope. Especially not Flowers.

 

[ElectedbyHim]

WHAT??? NOT FLOWERS????!!!!?

Leighton Flowers?

Didn't he used to be a Calvinist?

How can anyone go from Calvinism to Arminianism?

That is mind boggling.

Apologies off topic.

 

[makesends]

Leighton Flowers?

Didn't he used to be a Calvinist?

How can anyone go from Calvinism to Arminianism?

That is mind boggling.

Apologies off topic.

Far as I've seen, when it happens, it is because they didn't understand what they had claimed to be.

 

[ElectedbyHim]

Far as I've seen, when it happens, it is because they didn't understand what they had claimed to be.

Here is truth.

 

[Josheb]

Leighton Flowers? Didn't he used to be a Calvinist?

Claims he was but I've scores of the articles over at his website (tried to work my way through them but there are too many to do that without committing exorbitant amounts of time) and find his presentation of Calvinism grossly incorrect. The entire site is one big strawman.

How can anyone go from Calvinism to Arminianism? That is mind boggling.

Um... yeah... no one wants me to answer that question (but let's say the Church Lady could explain it ). Just kidding. There are a hundred million ways to misread scripture. Only one truth. Given his misrepresentation of monergism it's not a mystery how he left It's easy to leave that which is not correctly understood.

 

[ElectedbyHim]

Claims he was but I've scores of the articles over at his website (tried to work my way through them but there are too many to do that without committing exorbitant amounts of time) and find his presentation of Calvinism grossly incorrect. The entire site is one big strawman.

Um... yeah... no one wants me to answer that question (but let's say the Church Lady could explain it ). Just kidding. There are a hundred million ways to misread scripture. Only one truth. Given his misrepresentation of monergism it's not a mystery how he left It's easy to leave that which is not correctly understood.

Off topic here, but do you think pride blinds the Arminian from seeing the truth about the 5 points, is this the Lord's doing (obviously)?

I always believed the 5 points even before I knew anything about Calvinism and always believed in God's sovereignty over everything.

 

[Rescued One]

Off topic here, but do you think pride blinds the Arminian from seeing the truth about the 5 points, is this the Lord's doing (obviously)?

I always believed the 5 points even before I knew anything about Calvinism and always believed in God's sovereignty over everything.

My late husband liked the Wesleyan church but never discussed the Bible with me. He like reading a lot, but I never saw him reading his Bible.

 

[ElectedbyHim]

My late husband liked the Wesleyan church but never discussed the Bible with me. He like reading a lot, but I never saw him reading his Bible.

I'm sorry.

My wife claims to be a Christian but will not read the Bible or go to church with me, wants nothing to do with the Lord.

If I bring any of that up it causes an argument.

 

[Rescued One]

I'm sorry.

My wife claims to be a Christian but will not read the Bible or go to church with me, wants nothing to do with the Lord.

If I bring any of that up it causes an argument.

God bless you. My maternal grandmother didn't have a Bible and thought people were born Christian or ______(Jewish?) Her mother died of cancer, age 66. Grandma's parents didn't have Bibles eirher.