An Article on free will

[brightfame52]

Again can you tell the readers why these were able to believe

Man by nature, carnal mind cannot submit to the Law of God,hence cannot submit to God, cant separate God from His Law Rom 8:7

7 Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.

Notice the carnal mind is enmity against God as well, so the carnal mind hates God. The word enmity echthra:
hatred, its the same word in Gal 5:20

Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies,

That cannot be changed as long as we are unregenerate in the flesh

 

[civic]

Man by nature, carnal mind cannot submit to the Law of God,hence cannot submit to God, cant separate God from His Law Rom 8:7

7 Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.

Notice the carnal mind is enmity against God as well, so the carnal mind hates God. The word enmity echthra:
hatred, its the same word in Gal 5:20

Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies,

That cannot be changed as long as we are unregenerate in the flesh

but you have an idol in calvin, heresies taught by him which causes strife in the body of Christ and division.

things that make you go hmmmm.

 

[TomL]

Man by nature, carnal mind cannot submit to the Law of God,hence cannot submit to God, cant separate God from His Law Rom 8:7

7 Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.

Notice the carnal mind is enmity against God as well, so the carnal mind hates God. The word enmity echthra:
hatred, its the same word in Gal 5:20

Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies,

That cannot be changed as long as we are unregenerate in the flesh

You failed to address anything

Again can you tell the readers why these were able to believe

Luke 8:13 (LEB) — 13 And those on the rock are those who receive the word with joy when they hear it, and these do not have enough root, who believe for a time and in a time of testing fall away.

and why it was necessary to harden these so they do not believe

John 12:40 (LEB) — 40 “He has blinded their eyes and hardened their hearts, lest they see with their eyes and understand with their hearts and turn, and I heal them.”

Your theology is unable to account for scriptural evidence

 

[brightfame52]

but you have an idol in calvin, heresies taught by him which causes strife in the body of Christ and division.

things that make you go hmmmm.

Man by nature, his mind is enmity against God, so how can he obey God and believe ? He cant

7 Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.

 

[brightfame52]

You failed to address anything



Your theology is unable to account for scriptural evidence

A carnal man in the flesh believing in Christ doesnt please God. You think Jesus was pleased with these believing Jn 2:23-24

23 Now when he was in Jerusalem at the passover, in the feast day, many believed in his name, when they saw the miracles which he did.

24 But Jesus did not commit himself unto them, because he knew all men,

So men with a carnal/fleshly mind can believe, but its not the Faith that pleases God, like simon Acts 8:13

13 Then Simon himself believed also: and when he was baptized, he continued with Philip, and wondered, beholding the miracles and signs which were done.

Yet Peter said his heart wasnt right with God, Acts 8

21 Thou hast neither part nor lot in this matter: for thy heart is not right in the sight of God.

22 Repent therefore of this thy wickedness, and pray God, if perhaps the thought of thine heart may be forgiven thee.

23 For I perceive that thou art in the gall of bitterness, and in the bond of iniquity.

So no matter how may verses you find, they dont change the fact that they which are in the flesh cannot please God.

 

[TomL]

A carnal man in the flesh believing in Christ doesnt please God. You think Jesus was pleased with these believing Jn 2:23-24

23 Now when he was in Jerusalem at the passover, in the feast day, many believed in his name, when they saw the miracles which he did.

24 But Jesus did not commit himself unto them, because he knew all men,

So men with a carnal/fleshly mind can believe, but its not the Faith that pleases God, like simon Acts 8:13

13 Then Simon himself believed also: and when he was baptized, he continued with Philip, and wondered, beholding the miracles and signs which were done.

Yet Peter said his heart wasnt right with God, Acts 8

21 Thou hast neither part nor lot in this matter: for thy heart is not right in the sight of God.

22 Repent therefore of this thy wickedness, and pray God, if perhaps the thought of thine heart may be forgiven thee.

23 For I perceive that thou art in the gall of bitterness, and in the bond of iniquity.

So no matter how may verses you find, they dont change the fact that they which are in the flesh cannot please God.

So what happened to your doctrine of total inability

BTW the second reference proves the error of your latest statement

Again can you tell the readers why these were able to believe

Luke 8:13 (LEB) — 13 And those on the rock are those who receive the word with joy when they hear it, and these do not have enough root, who believe for a time and in a time of testing fall away.

and why it was necessary to harden these so they do not believe

John 12:40 (LEB) — 40 “He has blinded their eyes and hardened their hearts, lest they see with their eyes and understand with their hearts and turn, and I heal them.”

Why would he heal; that is save those with an unpleasing belief

 

[brightfame52]

@TomL

So what happened to your doctrine of total inability

Its a spiritual inability remember ? A carnal person can believe naturally, just like a devil can believe James 2

19 Thou believest that there is one God; thou doest well: the devils also believe, and tremble.

A devil and a natural man can believe in God, but its not a Gospel believing that pleases God and obeys God. See True believing requires a spiritual obedience and love for the Truth Rom 10:16


But they have not all obeyed the gospel. For Esaias saith, Lord, who hath believed our report?


can a devil do that ? No, neither can a person in the flesh because they cannot please God,or obey God.

 

[civic]

So what happened to your doctrine of total inability

BTW the second reference proves the error of your latest statement

Again can you tell the readers why these were able to believe

Luke 8:13 (LEB) — 13 And those on the rock are those who receive the word with joy when they hear it, and these do not have enough root, who believe for a time and in a time of testing fall away.

and why it was necessary to harden these so they do not believe

John 12:40 (LEB) — 40 “He has blinded their eyes and hardened their hearts, lest they see with their eyes and understand with their hearts and turn, and I heal them.”

Why would he heal; that is save those with an unpleasing belief

That’s their dilemma

 

[Larry]

So no matter how may verses you find, they dont change the fact that they which are in the flesh cannot please God.

ALL CHRISTIANS SHOULD AGREE that what matters most, in the discussion of free will (or any theological issue), is what the Bible says. No amount of philosophical—or even “systematic theological”—argument can be as important, or determinative, as what is revealed in Holy Scripture.

The problem is that the Bible never undertakes to speak directly to the issue of whether people have the capacity for freedom of choice. To raise or settle that question is not part of the biblical agenda. Most so-called biblical answers to the question, then, are answers derived from putting together the implications of other biblically clear truths. These are usually “logical” constructs.


Robert E. Picirilli, Free Will Revisited: A Respectful Response to Luther, Calvin, and Edwards

 

[brightfame52]

ALL CHRISTIANS SHOULD AGREE that what matters most, in the discussion of free will (or any theological issue), is what the Bible says. No amount of philosophical—or even “systematic theological”—argument can be as important, or determinative, as what is revealed in Holy Scripture.

The problem is that the Bible never undertakes to speak directly to the issue of whether people have the capacity for freedom of choice. To raise or settle that question is not part of the biblical agenda. Most so-called biblical answers to the question, then, are answers derived from putting together the implications of other biblically clear truths. These are usually “logical” constructs.


Robert E. Picirilli, Free Will Revisited: A Respectful Response to Luther, Calvin, and Edwards

They which are in the flesh cannot please God, they have no freewill ability to do so Rom8:8

8 So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God.

 

[TomL]

That’s their dilemma

Yes And that poster clearly has no answer

 

[Larry]

They which are in the flesh cannot please God, they have no freewill ability to do so Rom8:8

8 So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God.

The reason believers can have victory through Christ is that the power of the indwelling Spirit of Christ is greater than the power of the old sinful nature.

The downward pull of the sinful nature may be likened to the downward pull of the earth’s gravity. A stone thrown into the air will fall to the ground, because it has no life or power to overcome the force of gravity. We have a living power that enables us to overcome the downward pull of the flesh. We have a new ‘law’, LIFE, which is greater than the ‘law’ of gravity.

Likewise in Christ believers have a new upward force of the Spirit that is greater than the downward pull of the flesh.

Efforts to keep the law cannot produce righteousness, because flesh cannot be cured, or even improved. It can only be condemned to destruction, and Christ did this by his death on the cross. When, however, believers live according to the power of the Spirit, we can develop in our lives the righteousness that the law aimed at but could not produce.

The mind cannot be controlled at the same time by both the flesh and the Spirit. One results in hostility to God, the other in peace. One leads to death, the other to life.

The Spirit within believers is the Spirit of Christ. Through the Spirit, Christ dwells within us, giving us spiritual life, victory over the flesh, and in the end freedom from even the last physical effects of sin, death.

Since the flesh is no longer our master, Christians should not obey it. Rather we should kill off its sinful actions. We are now children of God, free from the fear of bondage and led by the Spirit. Our union with Christ means that one day we will share in the Father’s inheritance, but it also means that in the present life we must share in Christ’s suffering.

Romans 8:1–18

 

[brightfame52]

The reason believers can have victory through Christ is that the power of the indwelling Spirit of Christ is greater than the power of the old sinful nature.

The downward pull of the sinful nature may be likened to the downward pull of the earth’s gravity. A stone thrown into the air will fall to the ground, because it has no life or power to overcome the force of gravity. We have a living power that enables us to overcome the downward pull of the flesh. We have a new ‘law’, LIFE, which is greater than the ‘law’ of gravity.

Likewise in Christ believers have a new upward force of the Spirit that is greater than the downward pull of the flesh.

Efforts to keep the law cannot produce righteousness, because flesh cannot be cured, or even improved. It can only be condemned to destruction, and Christ did this by his death on the cross. When, however, believers live according to the power of the Spirit, we can develop in our lives the righteousness that the law aimed at but could not produce.

The mind cannot be controlled at the same time by both the flesh and the Spirit. One results in hostility to God, the other in peace. One leads to death, the other to life.

The Spirit within believers is the Spirit of Christ. Through the Spirit, Christ dwells within us, giving us spiritual life, victory over the flesh, and in the end freedom from even the last physical effects of sin, death.

Since the flesh is no longer our master, Christians should not obey it. Rather we should kill off its sinful actions. We are now children of God, free from the fear of bondage and led by the Spirit. Our union with Christ means that one day we will share in the Father’s inheritance, but it also means that in the present life we must share in Christ’s suffering.

Romans 8:1–18

The unregenerate are in the flesh, and :

They which are in the flesh cannot please God, they have no freewill ability to do so Rom8:8

8 So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God.

 

[Larry]

The unregenerate are in the flesh, and :

They which are in the flesh cannot please God, they have no freewill ability to do so Rom8:8

8 So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God.

So I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh. / For the flesh craves what is contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit what is contrary to the flesh. They are opposed to each other, so that you do not do what you want.

17For the flesh craves what is contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit what is contrary to the flesh. They are opposed to each other, so that you do not do what you want.…
Galatians 5:16-17

 

[brightfame52]

So I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh. / For the flesh craves what is contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit what is contrary to the flesh. They are opposed to each other, so that you do not do what you want.

17For the flesh craves what is contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit what is contrary to the flesh. They are opposed to each other, so that you do not do what you want.…
Galatians 5:16-17

We talking about two different things friend.

 

[brightfame52]

By obedience to law



Romans 8:7–8 (LEB) — 7 because the mindset of the flesh is enmity toward God, for it is not subjected to the law of God, for it is not able to do so, 8 and those who are in the flesh are not able to please God.

Which shows it is by obedience to law one cannot please God

however one can by faith

Hebrews 11:6 (LEB) — 6 Now without faith it is impossible to please him, for the one who approaches God must believe that he exists and is a rewarder of those who seek him.

Seeing that no man by nature seeks God, and every carnal mind is enmity against God, man must require a new nature to know and love the only true God, for he cannot do anything to come to God by means of his sinful nature. Man must be born again, he must be made a new creature in Christ and given a new nature before he can, and so that he will, see the Kingdom of God https://www.godsonlygospel.com/by-grace-alone-22

 

[TomL]

@TomL



Its a spiritual inability remember ? A carnal person can believe naturally, just like a devil can believe James 2

19 Thou believest that there is one God; thou doest well: the devils also believe, and tremble.

A devil and a natural man can believe in God, but its not a Gospel believing that pleases God and obeys God. See True believing requires a spiritual obedience and love for the Truth Rom 10:16


But they have not all obeyed the gospel. For Esaias saith, Lord, who hath believed our report?


can a devil do that ? No, neither can a person in the flesh because they cannot please God,or obey God.

Address these then

Luke 8:13 (LEB) — 13 And those on the rock are those who receive the word with joy when they hear it, and these do not have enough root, who believe for a time and in a time of testing fall away.

and why it was necessary to harden these so they do not believe

John 12:40 (LEB) — 40 “He has blinded their eyes and hardened their hearts, lest they see with their eyes and understand with their hearts and turn, and I heal them.”

Seeing that no man by nature seeks God, and every carnal mind is enmity against God, man must require a new nature to know and love the only true God, for he cannot do anything to come to God by means of his sinful nature. Man must be born again, he must be made a new creature in Christ and given a new nature before he can, and so that he will, see the Kingdom of God https://www.godsonlygospel.com/by-grace-alone-22

so why do you not address these

Luke 8:13 (LEB) — 13 And those on the rock are those who receive the word with joy when they hear it, and these do not have enough root, who believe for a time and in a time of testing fall away.

and why it was necessary to harden these so they do not believe

John 12:40 (LEB) — 40 “He has blinded their eyes and hardened their hearts, lest they see with their eyes and understand with their hearts and turn, and I heal them.”

BTW

Acts‬ 17:26-27: From one man he made all the nations, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and he marked out their appointed times in history and the boundaries of their lands. God did this so that they would seek him and perhaps reach out to him and find him, though he is not far from any one of us.‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬



Isaiah‬ 55:6-7: Seek the LORD while He may be found; call upon Him while He is near. Let the wicked forsake his way And the unrighteous man his thoughts; And let him return to the LORD, And He will have compassion on him, And to our God, for He will abundantly pardon.



Zephaniah‬ 2:3: Seek the LORD, all you humble of the land, you who do what he commands. Seek righteousness, seek humility; perhaps you will be sheltered on the day of the LORD’S anger. ‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬



Psalms‬ 83:16: Fill their faces with dishonor, That they may seek Your name, O LORD.



‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬ ‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬2 Chronicles‬ 20:3‬: Jehoshaphat was afraid and turned his attention to seek the LORD, and proclaimed a fast throughout all Judah. ‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬ ‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬

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[Kermos]

6-2 Corinthians 6:1
As God’s partners, we beg you not to accept this marvelous gift of God’s kindness and then ignore it.

Your quote wholeheartedly begins with "As God’s partners", yet the attached picture of the 2 Corinthians 6:1 Interlinear, sourced from Biblehub.com, is devoid of the Greek word θεός (Strong's 2316 - theos- God, god) for the English word "God" in the entire verse.

Your English word "partners" fails to be supported by the Greek word κοινωνός (Strong's 2844 - koinónos - partner, sharer, companion, participant) anywhere in the entire verse as illustrated by the interlinear.

The word "As" is not there, either, civic.

Your verse words fail to reflect the original language, so your self-willed (2 Peter 2:9-10) interpretation adulterates the Holy Scripture as evidenced through your own writings recorded in your post to which God causes me to respond now:

The 2nd Book of civic		The 2nd Letter to the Corinthians
As God’s partners, we beg you not to accept, because your self-willed might has the ability to resist the Grace of Almighty God thus you can render God inept, this marvelous gift of God’s kindness and then ignore it. (2 civic 6:1).		Working together now and we exhort you not to receive the Grace of God in vain (2 Corinthians 6:1)

so your heart preaches your sovereignty of man eliminating the Sovereignty of God, and so go your adulterations of the the Holy Scripture, again.

Interestingly, the inflective Greek language associates the English word "Working" with the English word "we", and each of these words occur a single time in the verse; moreover, the English word "we" would require the phrase "the grace of us" in order to include God in "we" instead of the phrase "the Grace of God" in the verse; therefore, the "we" are the ones "Working together". The "we" is Paul and Timothy (2 Corinthians 1:1).

As the attached interlinear image clearly shows, the verb "receive" is present in the verse, and a person receives Grace from God, and the Grace of God always succeeds with the person to whom God bestows the Grace of God, without fail. God's Grace always achieves God’s Good Pleasure! Praise the Lord!

Christians "Working together" is part of God's good pleasure because the Holy Spirit reveals about us Christians that "it is God who is at work in you, both to will and to work for His good pleasure" (Philippians 2:13).

According to your preaching, man controls the Love of God, yet Apostolic testimony is "the Love of Christ controls us" Christians (2 Corinthians 5:14) - a blessed Apostolic testimony in the Holy Spirit.

Your testimony is man earns the unearned Love of God because man chooses the Love of God.

This post is an integral continuation with:

1. post #5,018 - Evaluated Your Conclusion That God's Grace Is Resistible and Earnable.
2. post #5,019 - Your Adulteration of Matthew 22:3 As Your Self-willed "proof" that God's Grace Is Resistible and Earnable.
3. post #5,024 - Your Destruction of Jerusalem, Jerusalem in Matthew 23:37 As Your Self-willed "proof" that God's Grace Is Resistible and Earnable.
4. post #5,026 - Hebrews 6:4-8 Exposes The Impossibility Of A Christian To Expose The Christ To Public Shame Despite Your Self-willed "proof" that God's Grace Is Resistible and Earnable.
5. post #5,031 - You Declare The Almighty God Is Miserably Weak Per Your Heart's Rendition Of Luke 19:41 For Your Self-willed "proof" that God's Grace Is Resistible and Earnable.
6. post #5,036 - You fallen away from God's Grace is not you fallen out of God's Grace in Galatians 5:4-7, so your self-willed "proof" that God's Grace Is resistible and earnable fails to be your proof.
7. post #5,045 - You believe Lord Jesus, who is Love, fails by your quoting of Hebrews 12:14-15 As Your Self-willed "proof" that God's Grace Is Resistible and Earnable.

Your heart makes false statements about God and man. Free-will is a conjured concept of the traditions of men (Matthew 15:9).

In Truth (John 14:6), the Almighty God is Sovereign (Genesis 1:1) in man's salvation and affairs of man (Daniel 4:34-35)! PRAISE THE SOVEREIGN KING JESUS CHRIST!!!

 

[civic]

Your quote wholeheartedly begins with "As God’s partners", yet the attached picture of the 2 Corinthians 6:1 Interlinear, sourced from Biblehub.com, is devoid of the Greek word θεός (Strong's 2316 - theos- God, god) for the English word "God" in the entire verse.

Your English word "partners" fails to be supported by the Greek word κοινωνός (Strong's 2844 - koinónos - partner, sharer, companion, participant) anywhere in the entire verse as illustrated by the interlinear.

The word "As" is not there, either, civic.

Your verse words fail to reflect the original language, so your self-willed (2 Peter 2:9-10) interpretation adulterates the Holy Scripture as evidenced through your own writings recorded in your post to which God causes me to respond now:

The 2nd Book of civic		The 2nd Letter to the Corinthians
As God’s partners, we beg you not to accept, because your self-willed might has the ability to resist the Grace of Almighty God thus you can render God inept, this marvelous gift of God’s kindness and then ignore it. (2 civic 6:1).		Working together now and we exhort you not to receive the Grace of God in vain (2 Corinthians 6:1)

so your heart preaches your sovereignty of man eliminating the Sovereignty of God, and so go your adulterations of the the Holy Scripture, again.

Interestingly, the inflective Greek language associates the English word "Working" with the English word "we", and each of these words occur a single time in the verse; moreover, the English word "we" would require the phrase "the grace of us" in order to include God in "we" instead of the phrase "the Grace of God" in the verse; therefore, the "we" are the ones "Working together". The "we" is Paul and Timothy (2 Corinthians 1:1).

As the attached interlinear image clearly shows, the verb "receive" is present in the verse, and a person receives Grace from God, and the Grace of God always succeeds with the person to whom God bestows the Grace of God, without fail. God's Grace always achieves God’s Good Pleasure! Praise the Lord!

Christians "Working together" is part of God's good pleasure because the Holy Spirit reveals about us Christians that "it is God who is at work in you, both to will and to work for His good pleasure" (Philippians 2:13).

According to your preaching, man controls the Love of God, yet Apostolic testimony is "the Love of Christ controls us" Christians (2 Corinthians 5:14) - a blessed Apostolic testimony in the Holy Spirit.

Your testimony is man earns the unearned Love of God because man chooses the Love of God.

This post is an integral continuation with:

1. post #5,018 - Evaluated Your Conclusion That God's Grace Is Resistible and Earnable.
2. post #5,019 - Your Adulteration of Matthew 22:3 As Your Self-willed "proof" that God's Grace Is Resistible and Earnable.
3. post #5,024 - Your Destruction of Jerusalem, Jerusalem in Matthew 23:37 As Your Self-willed "proof" that God's Grace Is Resistible and Earnable.
4. post #5,026 - Hebrews 6:4-8 Exposes The Impossibility Of A Christian To Expose The Christ To Public Shame Despite Your Self-willed "proof" that God's Grace Is Resistible and Earnable.
5. post #5,031 - You Declare The Almighty God Is Miserably Weak Per Your Heart's Rendition Of Luke 19:41 For Your Self-willed "proof" that God's Grace Is Resistible and Earnable.
6. post #5,036 - You fallen away from God's Grace is not you fallen out of God's Grace in Galatians 5:4-7, so your self-willed "proof" that God's Grace Is resistible and earnable fails to be your proof.
7. post #5,045 - You believe Lord Jesus, who is Love, fails by your quoting of Hebrews 12:14-15 As Your Self-willed "proof" that God's Grace Is Resistible and Earnable.

Your heart makes false statements about God and man. Free-will is a conjured concept of the traditions of men (Matthew 15:9).

In Truth (John 14:6), the Almighty God is Sovereign (Genesis 1:1) in man's salvation and affairs of man (Daniel 4:34-35)! PRAISE THE SOVEREIGN KING JESUS CHRIST!!!

Nice try grace is not irresistible.

Another failure

 

[brightfame52]

Address these then

Luke 8:13 (LEB) — 13 And those on the rock are those who receive the word with joy when they hear it, and these do not have enough root, who believe for a time and in a time of testing fall away.

and why it was necessary to harden these so they do not believe

John 12:40 (LEB) — 40 “He has blinded their eyes and hardened their hearts, lest they see with their eyes and understand with their hearts and turn, and I heal them.”


so why do you not address these

Luke 8:13 (LEB) — 13 And those on the rock are those who receive the word with joy when they hear it, and these do not have enough root, who believe for a time and in a time of testing fall away.

and why it was necessary to harden these so they do not believe

John 12:40 (LEB) — 40 “He has blinded their eyes and hardened their hearts, lest they see with their eyes and understand with their hearts and turn, and I heal them.”

BTW

Acts‬ 17:26-27: From one man he made all the nations, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and he marked out their appointed times in history and the boundaries of their lands. God did this so that they would seek him and perhaps reach out to him and find him, though he is not far from any one of us.‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬



Isaiah‬ 55:6-7: Seek the LORD while He may be found; call upon Him while He is near. Let the wicked forsake his way And the unrighteous man his thoughts; And let him return to the LORD, And He will have compassion on him, And to our God, for He will abundantly pardon.



Zephaniah‬ 2:3: Seek the LORD, all you humble of the land, you who do what he commands. Seek righteousness, seek humility; perhaps you will be sheltered on the day of the LORD’S anger. ‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬



Psalms‬ 83:16: Fill their faces with dishonor, That they may seek Your name, O LORD.



‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬ ‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬2 Chronicles‬ 20:3‬: Jehoshaphat was afraid and turned his attention to seek the LORD, and proclaimed a fast throughout all Judah. ‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬ ‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬

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Its a spiritual inability remember ? A carnal person can believe naturally, just like a devil can believe James 2

19 Thou believest that there is one God; thou doest well: the devils also believe, and tremble.

A devil and a natural man can believe in God, but its not a Gospel believing that pleases God and obeys God. See True believing requires a spiritual obedience and love for the Truth Rom 10:16


But they have not all obeyed the gospel. For Esaias saith, Lord, who hath believed our report?


can a devil do that ? No, neither can a person in the flesh because they cannot please God,or obey God.