Nanja
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The post I quoted friend.
You accuse some of believing salvation is a product of works.
So I ask again; regarding the elect or actual faithful; do you understand pleasing works in the sight of GOD to be the byproduct of effectual faith or are you going to say that it too is the work of man and not the product of GOD given faith through grace and mercy and the will of GOD.
Thank you
Peace
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The only believing / faith that pleases God is a fruit of the Spirit given in New Birth to all His Elect.
Outside of that none are faithful, for the faith / believing that a carnal man does cannot please God; just works of the flesh.
Rom. 8:7-8
7 Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.
8 So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God.
The natural man doesn't have the ability to please or obey God.
All the works he does are as filthy rags in God's sight Is. 64:6.
Understand that God's Grace was Given exclusively to His Elect, those He Saved, before the world began.
2 Tim. 1:9
Who hath saved us, and called us with an holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began.
And God's Mercy is exclusively for His Vessels of Mercy, but not for the vessels of wrath He ordained to destruction Rom. 9:22-23.
How's that?
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