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FREE WILL OF HUMANS VS GRACE OF GOD?
For those who believe they have the ability within themselves, in total or in part, to become a Christian, where in the Bible (KJV) do they find that support?
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- demariaLv 45 years ago
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- ?Lv 71 decade ago
No one is righteous accept God. We do not have the power to believe on our own. God gives us that power to believe on His name for salvation.
Christians say we have free will then turn around and say God chooses our mates and careers for us. I don't see any of that in Scriptures.
- Anthony WLv 41 decade ago
It can not be found in the scriptures. We are each carnal, dead in sin and unable to do anything to save ourselves....It is God who calls us to life and redeems us from sin and death.
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- 1 decade ago
Paul taught this satanic non-sense. Jesus on the other hand NEVER taught grace. Compare the gospels to Paul, compare James in Acts 21:16-24 to Paul, James taught strict adheriance to the Torah or the Mosaic law.
The proof for your answer is everywhere!!! What do you think "repent" means? The prophets said, "You" must apologize, "you" must keep the torah. Jesus said in Matthew 19:17, "If YOU want to enter into life, YOU MUST KEEP THE COMMANDMENTS." Many so-called Christians don't realize that Jesus practiced his ancestral religion, which is Judaism. Read Matthew 23:1-3!!!, here us what it says, "Then spake Jesus to the multitude, AND to his disciples, Saying, The scribes and the Pharisees sit in Moses' seat [meaning they taught the Torah or the law of Moses and the doctrines of Judaism]: All therefore whatsoever they bid you observe, [that] OBSERVE AND DO."
Jesus said, unless YOUR, not his, righteousness surpasses that of the Pharisees you will in no way enter his kingdom -Matt 5:20. The Pharisees where scholars mind you, who taught the ways of the prophets, yet many of them, though not all, did not practice the alw exactly how they read it from the manuscripts, but adopted false interpretations. Thus, Jesus is very clear thoughout his whole ministry that unless you first know the commandments and keep them AND acknowledge that he is the Jewish messiah [who is not 'God' in Judaism] one will not be righteous and holy enough to come into his holy and righteous kingdom. Pual taught that "sinners are saved" by mere grace, yet John the Baptist, Jesus himself and the rest of the prophets and the real apostles never taught this, but things like it says in Psalm 119:155, "salvation is far from the wicked, for they seek not Thy statutes." Besides this, what are you going to do with Paul, when we clearly see Jesus condemning to hell "believers" in Matthew 7:22-23. For it is very clear they are believers for they cast demons in his very name and even prophecy in his name, which one cannot do without him resting on the prophet, or even do miracles in his name, yet what does he say, "depart from me, you that practiced "anomia." Do you know what "anomia" means in the Greek language? It means those that "do not," "will not" or "did not practice the law." With that being said, the common ward "lawlessness" is used. But if Jesus is supposed to be the Jewish messiah and not some false messiah, then the context is clearly the Law of Moses and no other, for that was the God of Israel's law and there is no other law besides this law in Judaism. The law of Moses consisted of well over 613 commandments, not just 10 of them. Matthew 23 deals with some of these laws, such as phylacteries [Ex 13:9, 13:16, Deut 6:8, 11:18], tassels [Num 15:38], tithing and... Likewise in Matt 23 Jesus is very clear that he wants all people to do all the law, not to "pick and choose" which ones to do, for that is why he is gripping at the Pharisees in the first place in this chapter and at the same praising them in other regards, here is Matthew 23:23 to prove my case, "Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin, and have omitted the weightier [matters] of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith: these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone."
So we can clearly see that he is doing both, rebuking and praising and he wants them to do it all, not that is eradicated as what Paul taught!!!
Paul was known as a heretic and an apostate in his day, just read Acts 21 to prove my case. James thought Paul kept the law of Moses and thought the rumors about him preaching otherwise were false. But those that know his letters know full well that he taught "the law was nailed to the cross" and "eradicated." Likewise, his whole letter to the "Galatians" was to preach that agenda. In case you do not know, the people turned their back on Paul and started following the true way of the God of Israel, at least to a certain degree, by following the law, keeping the biblical feasts and circumcising their male children, like the law dictates - yet we do not know anything more about them and how they recieved Paul's rebuke, whether they accepted it or threw his letter away. Here is what James says to Paul in Acts 21:20, telling Paul that he [James] and the people with him were keeping the Mosaic law, "Thou seest, brother, how many [Greek = "myriad"] thousands of Jews there are which believe; AND they are all zealous of the law." Paul in this chapter deceives James and does what he says in order to appear as Torah observant or one that kept the law. However, the believers from Asia knew that he was lying when he went into the Temple and so they started persecuting him. Keep in mind James did not know what Paul taught away from Jerusalem, its not like they had radio, TV and the internet back then.
In truth, all of Paul's writings need to be riped out of the bible, he is a satanic pagan and apostate.
- Anonymous1 decade ago
God will call those with willing hearts..