Without God making him what?Can man believe in God without God making him?
or IOW
Can man have faith in God without God making it so?
Without God making him what?
Why would you ask a question like that? Do you think God makes msn believe? How so? Please explainbelieve
Why would you ask a question like that?
Do you think God makes msn believe? How so? Please explain
I would say man cannot believe in God without God helping him.
If doubt is a real temptation, God does not force us to believe.
I would say man cannot believe in God without God helping him.
If doubt is a real temptation, God does not force us to believe.
I would say man cannot believe in God without God helping him.
If doubt is a real temptation, God does not force us to believe.
the Holy Spirit overcomes Man's natural resistance
Salvation is completely God's doing, not Man's doing
I think soYes. And if God uses belief in order to make Himself known to us, then that belief must have originated in and with Him for it to be "God's doing".
If that were true, then nobody would believe.
Can man believe in God without God making him?
or IOW
Can man have faith in God without God making it so?
Deu 29:1 These are the words of the covenant that the LORD commanded Moses to make with the people of Israel in the land of Moab, besides the covenant that he had made with them at Horeb. 2 And Moses summoned all Israel and said to them: “You have seen all that the LORD did before your eyes in the land of Egypt, to Pharaoh and to all his servants and to all his land, 3 the great trials that your eyes saw, the signs, and those great wonders. 4 But to this day the LORD has not given you a heart to understand or eyes to see or ears to hear.
Jer 24:7 I will give them a heart to know that I am the LORD, and they shall be my people and I will be their God, for they shall return to me with their whole heart.
Joh_10:26 but you do not believe because you are not among my sheep. 27 My sheep listen to my voice; I know them, and they follow me.
Again, Jesus is giving us a cause and effect relationship.
Cause: You are not my sheep
Effect: You do not believe.
Same thing:
John 8:47 Whoever belongs to God hears what God says. The reason you do not hear is that you do not belong to God.”
Cause: You do not belong to God
Effect: You do not hear what God says.
Pretty plain, obvious, straightforward, clear-cut, unequivocal
Don't understand. Who are the "they?"They are two different libertarian groups with different previous histories and retributions and present day reactions.
They are two different libertarian groups with different previous histories and retributions and present day reactions.
Don't understand. Who are the "they?"
How does man follow the will of God when the will of man is perverse?Can man believe in God without God making him?
or IOW
Can man have faith in God without God making it so?