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This right here is the ENTIRE CRUX OF THE MATTER that @beloved57 will continue to ignore, choosing (see what I did there?) instead to conflate having a free will (again, a redundant term, because wills are by definition free) with being free from sin.

Yes. There's a huge difference between an organism and a nation. Guess which one Israel is. Nope. That's NOT how that works. Believers in the Body of Christ are a NEW CREATURE. We are not/do not become part of a nation called "Israel."

Meaningless. Men are free to choose between good and evil. The verse doesn't say what you just said. Men are not sinners at conception, for no baby in the womb has ever sinned. Those who SIN are servants of sin. Babies are innocent. Begging the question. Only those who sin. So? Does...

Man has a will. Wills are, by definition, free. Not according to your position, which denies the very definition of the term, "will." Yes. But your position assumes men don't. Man cannot be responsible or accountable if he cannot choose otherwise than what God predetermined he would...

So what? Saying it doesn't make it so.

"Free will" is a redundant term. If it's not free, it's not a will. A will is simply "the ability to choose."

It's an apparent problem with your position. You need to provide more about your position that resolves the apparent problem. Hence my questions. Still missing the point of contention, and now you're just repeating yourself (not that you weren't before...). Except that didn't happen for many...

You're missing my point of contention. That's not answering my question. I agree the natural man needs to change his mind, to repent. But my question is about HOW his mind gets changed, not WHETHER it needs to be changed. Why can't the gospel enable a natural man to change his own mind? Why...

Yes, hence the question I asked. You've said that already. This does nothing to answer my questions. Here they are again: [Why must repentance be given to a man? It sounds like you're begging the question that man cannot respond to the gospel of his own will.] [Why do you think that the...

Why must it be given to him? Sounds like you're begging the question that man cannot respond to the gospel of his own will. Why do you think that the gospel shared cannot enable a natural man to change his mind?

Well, if it's anything like when Bob or Dr. Leighton Flowers debated him, then yeah, probably

Even sinners can be intelligent.

It also makes a prediction about how much antimatter there should be in the universe. One which, on its own, falsifies the theory. There's literally an entire universe worth of missing antimatter. https://kgov.com/antimatter This assumes that the speed of light is the same in both...

His blasphemy will be shoved in His face by Jesus Himself on judgement day unless he repents. While there's life there's hope.

Which is why Christ came to die for them, so that they have hope. Simply hearing the gospel is enough to enable them to heed it. No. This verse isn't saying what you want it to say. Free will is not a superpower. People who are natural, when they hear the gospel, are no longer without...

Past tense. WERE. "But now..." they have hope, because Christ came to die for them! Duh...

This is EXACTLY what Calvinists such as @beloved57 are guilty of conflating with what God has done to save men, and why he has no answer to my post #794. Yes, God is solely responsible for providing justification. But God is NOT responsible for us accepting or rejecting that justification...

You still aren't getting it. It's BECAUSE OF CHRIST that they have hope. Prior to them hearing the gospel of Jesus Christ, they had no hope. But AFTER they hear the gospel, they CAN have hope, because HE has the power to set them free from their dead and hopeless state! This is why evangelism...

Slovakian insurance commercial I found while searching for something else. @ok doser I was gonna put it in the Trucking thread, but it fits better here.

You need to pay attention to what the verse says. See the highlighted portion in the quote. Then read literally the next verse! But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off have been brought near by the blood of Christ. - Ephesians 2:13...