Recent content by Manfred

What makes you think that it excludes salvation. Are you just guessing? God makes vessels for glory and for destruction. It is not self-destruction or self glorification. God's mercy includes eternal salvation/damnation Rom 9:20 But who are you, O man, to answer back to God? Will what is...

The written word of God does. You cannot understand the word of God. Rom 9:15 For he says to Moses, “I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.” Rom 9:16 So then it depends not on human will or exertion, but on God, who has mercy. All...

Not only service. For redemption. You are basically saying Edom could choose to be redeemed! Mal 1:2 “I have loved you,” says the LORD. But you say, “How have you loved us?” “Is not Esau Jacob's brother?” declares the LORD. “Yet I have loved Jacob Mal 1:3 but Esau I have hated. I have laid...

And those grounds are before they had done anything good or evil, God determined. So it does not depend on the human will, but on God. Unconditional election by God. But we all know you cannot understand because: Luk 10:21 In that same hour he rejoiced in the Holy Spirit and said, “I thank...

It is not man that determines if they will believe or not. It is God Rom 9:16 So then it depends not on human will or exertion, but on God, who has mercy. You say it depends on the human. God says it does not depend on the human. But of course you cannot understand this because: Luk 10:21...

You still read universalism into that text as your claim is that that justification is for all men. We know not all are justified, so the verse does not state that all men are justified, and the gift is therefore not for every individual, but all people groups and ranks. But I knew you would...

More reading of universalism into texts. And you will deny and deny. Are all men justified unto life! Tom thinks so, and then speaks from the other side of his mouth, denying it. When you read your bias into scripture it is called eisegesis. But I know you cannot understand this because: Luk...

You have not been able to harmonize any scripture. You keep contradicting scripture. Christ did not die for every individual. If He did all individuals would be saved. There is your universalism on display again, and you will just deny. Where is the offer of a free gift of righteousness to...

Nothing but contradictions Does God have mercy on every individual! yes or no? You cannot answer because it blows you out of the water. God has unconditionally determined on whom He will have mercy and compassion, and it is not every person. Rom 9:21 Has the potter no right over the clay, to...

Of course there is. You imply it by saying this: What do you want me read into that text? Are you saying God will have mercy on all people or not? The scripture says he will have mercy and compassion on whom He will have mercy and compassion. What then are you alluding to if not universal...

When your argument fails, you revert to universalism, and pretend you don't. I already showed you that it does. But you are unable to understand Spiritual truths. 2Co 4:3 And even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those who are perishing. 2Co 4:4 In their case the god of this world...

I gave you plenty. Your problem is the following: 2Co 4:3 And even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those who are perishing. 2Co 4:4 In their case the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelievers, to keep them from seeing the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ...

Everything in there states that God's mercy is not dependent on the human will. Everything in there indicates that God will have mercy and compassion on whom He will have mercy and compassion. Everything in there indicates that God has created vessels for honor, and vessels for destruction...

Of course. Which part of this scripture is hard for you to understand: Rom 9:22 What if God, desiring to show his wrath and to make known his power, has endured with much patience vessels of wrath prepared for destruction, Rom 9:23 in order to make known the riches of his glory for vessels...

Man does not receive Christ by the freedom of the will but by God. You skipped that part. Nothing in there that it is a faith that comes from the human will. In fact your premise contradicts Jesus. All of salvation is from God. To Him alone the glory. I cannot help that you despise giving God...