Sorry you are simply repeating your sorry old claims which were shown insufficient
You have ignored Calvinist commentators, Calvinist Greek Scholars, industry standard lexicons, parallel texts
read your theology into passages where it did not exist.
Twisted passages by appeal to a non parallel text while mishandling an active voice verb as though it was a passive
Receive Christ is something they did not something that happened to them
the active voice refutes your claim
You wrote “
Receive Christ is something they did not something that happened to them” is a lie because you illegally reverse the semantics of "receive" as shown in the following; in other words, your folly that man causes himself to receive (lambano) Christ in John 1:12-13 is truly evident by the following.
Your linguistics are so faulty that you said paralambano is part of John 1:12, and when it was shown to you that paralambano is actually in John 1:11, not John 1:12, then afterward you have shown no sign of repentance nor apology for your deception.
Self-willed you (2 Peter 2:9-10), not free-willed you, truly self-willed you are unrepentant after you were shown your linguistic deception that the Greek word παρέλαβον (
Strong’s 3880 – paralambanó – to receive from) occurs as the source word for “
received” in John 1:12.
Since you brought up “
receive” of John 1:11, the Apostle used the word “
receive” to illustrate man’s inability to choose to
receive [Christ] into one’s house, so to speak; therefore, the very specific Greek word that you brought up proves the error of your free-willian way.
John’s words are “
But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, to those who believe in His name, who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God” (John 1:12-13), and the word “
received” is accurately translated from ἔλαβον (
Strong’s 2983 – lambanó – to take, receive), and, indeed, “
received” is Aorist and active grammatically.
The Apostle indicates we “
born of God” are the ones that God causes to “
believe in His name” because we are the “
children of God” (a.k.a. the “
born of God”) of whom are the ones that God causes us to be the “
many as received Him” (John 1:12-13).
The Apostle John specifically disallowed your free-will to “
receive” Christ in the passage with John’s words of “
nor of the will of man” (John 1:12-13).
“RECEIVE” DEFINITION BY EXAMPLE:
The man received a punch to his face dislocating his septum – not by choice – but in the fury of his assailant’s surprise attack.
The pedestrian received a series of traumatic injuries – not by choice – but as a result of the car jumping the curb.
A lover receives a love letter – not by choice – but in gladness.
Receive means a thing that unavoidably came in from a source to a recipient – receive is not a choice like accept – receive just happens.
“RECEIVE” DEFINITION BY DICTIONARY:
1. TRANSITIVE VERB When you receive something, you get it after someone gives it to you or sends it to you. (Collins COBUILD English Usage (c) HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 2004, 2011, 2012)
There is a keyword in the definition, which is “after”.
The Greek word ἔλαβον (
Strong’s 2983 – lambano/elabon – to take, receive) lexicon definition is “receive”, and the specific instance of ἔλαβον used by the Apostle John in John 1:12 is an active indicative aorist verb in the third person; therefore, the word ἔλαβον conveys the active concept of “joyfully” by the recipient of “
receive” with the “
receive” being initiated and caused by the the source, not the recipient, but truly God is the cause (John 1:12-13), so John conveys “joyfully receive” is the active meaning for ἔλαβον.
“RECEIVE” USAGE IN SCRIPTURE:
The Apostle John wrote “
But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, to those who believe in His name, who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God” (John 1:12-13).
The Apostle John wrote receiving Christ is a result of being born of God in John 1:12-13.
The Apostle John wrote receiving Christ is not an act of the will of man in John 1:12-13.
The ones who received Christ are the ones “
who were born” “
of God”.
Let’s follow the blessed chain linking these people of whom John wrote which is the “
born of God” (John 1:13, John 3:3-8) links with “
believe in His name” (John 1:12, John 6:29) links with “
many as received Him” (John 1:12, John 9).
Each of these are exactly the same people:
- ”many as received Him”
- ”children of God”
- ”believe in His name”
- ”born of God”
See that John explicitly excludes “
the will of man” as the cause for all of these.
John 1:12-13 shows that you cannot cause yourself to receive Jesus.
John 1:12-13 shows that God causes people to receive Jesus.
John 1:12-13 shows that you cannot cause yourself to believe in Jesus.
John 1:12-13 shows that God causes people to believe in Jesus.
Again, here is the passage:
“
But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, to those who believe in His name, who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God” (John 1:12-13).
“
Peter [said] to them, ‘Repent, and each of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins; and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. For the promise is for you and your children and for all who are far off, as many as the Lord our God will call to Himself.'” (Acts 2:38-39, this was Peter’s response after the people who were pierced to the heart by Peter’s proclamation of the Word of God inquired “
Brethren, what shall we do” in Acts 2:14-37)
Peter issued the command “
think differently from now on” (repent) and the command “
be immersed in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins” and here is where “
receive” comes in, “
you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit” which is an act of God.
The word “
receive” means “unavoidably enters”; on the other hand, the word “accept” means “allowed to enter”.
The work of “accept” is specifically disallowed in the passage with “
nor of the will of man” because man causes not man to be “
born of God” nor man causes to “
believe in His name”, whom are the “
children of God”, nor man causes to be the “
many as received Him” (John 1:12-13).
The grammatical sense of the word “
receive” indicates Christ “unavoidably enters” a joyfully receptive person according to the Power of God (1 Corinthians 1:24) because the Apostle indicates the “
born of God” are the ones that God causes to “
believe in His name”, whom are the “
children of God”, whom are the ones that God causes to be the “
many as received Him” (John 1:12-13).
Since you are so very focused on the BAGD throughout your prior post, even in your closing paragraph:
e. take up, receive—α. τινὰ someone εἰς into (Wsd 8:18) lit. εἰς τὸ πλοῖον take someone (up) into the boat J 6:21. εἰς οἰκίαν receive someone into one’s house 2J 10. εἰς τὰ ἴδια into his own home J 19:27. Receive someone in the sense of recognizing his authority J 1:12; 5:43a, b;
then the following needs to be recognized:
- that God controls the “received” and the “recognizing his authority” are entirely controlled by God for it is written “it is God who is at work in you, both to will and to work for His good pleasure” (Philippians 2:13) – THE CONCEPT EMPHASIZED IN YOUR CLOSING PARAGRAPH IS NOT CONTROLLED BY MAN.
- that BAGD extended the “take up, receive” definition of lambano in your heart with “receive someone into one’s house” as evident in your quotation of Scripture that you disbelieve “And brought them out, and said, Sirs, what must I do to be saved? And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house. (Acts 16:30–31) see “one’s house” in BAGD along with thy house (Acts 16:30-31) as a relation, and this Paul wrote that God causes people to believe and that the believe is not of yourselves/man with:
by grace you have been saved through faith and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God, not as a result of works, so that no one may boast, for we are His work
(Ephesians 2:8-10).
So, Paul dispelled your deception that the “Believe” in Acts 16:30-31 was of man to the glory of man, just is the conclusion of your heart’s treasure. Truly God gets the glory for us believers believing in Jesus.
Your heart makes false statements about God and man. Freewill 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 the affairs of man (Daniel 4:34-35)! PRAISE THE SOVEREIGN KING JESUS CHRIST!!! ALL GLORY TO KING JESUS CHRIST FOR HIS MERCY AND GRACE OF CITIZENSHIP IN THE KINGDOM OF GOD!!!
