Unbelievable. With God, everything is impossible, but not with dead man, eh.
@cadwell?
Mt 8:18-22 ... Now when Jesus saw a crowd around Him, He gave orders to depart to the other side of the sea. Then a scribe came and said to Him, “Teacher, I will follow You wherever You go.” And Jesus *said to him, “The foxes have holes and the birds of the sky have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay His head.” And another of the disciples said to Him, “Lord, allow me first to go and bury my father.” But Jesus *said to him, “Follow Me, and let the dead bury their own dead.”
Jesus in your face,
@cadwell, and still you'll choose to remain in UNBELIEF ...
Didn't you claim Howie, that for you to believe in God, you need to be regenerated first and that requires you to be indwelt with the Holy Spirit, because the dead can not come to God by their own free will?
What went wrong here with your theology, then?
John 20:24-29
Jesus Appears to Thomas
24 Now Thomas (also known as Didymus[
a]), one of the Twelve, was not with the disciples when Jesus came. 25 So the other disciples told him, “We have seen the Lord!”
But he said to them, “
Unless I see the nail marks in his hands and put my finger where the nails were, and put my hand into his side, I will not believe.”
(So Thomas had not received the Holy Spirit yet, agreed, he was still dead, agreed?)
26 A week later his disciples were in the house again, and Thomas was with them. Though the doors were locked, Jesus came and stood among them and said, “Peace be with you!” 27 Then he said to Thomas, “Put your finger here; see my hands. Reach out your hand and put it into my side. Stop doubting and believe.”
28 Thomas said to him, “My Lord and my God!”
Now Thomas believes, yet it wasn't by him being regenerated by the Holy Spirit, like you claim, he did it from seeing, even though he was spiritually dead at that moment. So the dead can believe without regeneration.
29 Then Jesus told him, “Because you have seen me, you have believed; blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed.”
The above verse makes it clear why he believed,
he saw and believed, yet others will be blessed because they did not need to see, yet still believed.
What this proves is you can put your trust in Jesus and believe in him, without receiving the Holy Spirit first.
So you are wrong and scripture shows you to be wrong. God bless.