Actually Faith is a work of the Law Matt 23:23
Jesus, in His death on the cross, provided the sacrifice, the ransom paid to God, that is the basis upon which God can save us. The question that remains is who those are whom God saves based upon that universally paid ransom. God saves those who believe. Believing is something that we do in order for God choosing us to save. Believing is a work (John 6:29). It is just not a work of law.
Whoever thinks that baptism saves does not understand even what salvation is. God is who saves. Belief and baptism are conditions met by the ones whom God saves.
I wouldn't argue with that statement, but it is incomplete. I would question what it means to have faith in Jesus. If Jesus said, "Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved", does one who rejects what Jesus says there truly believe? Does he really trust Jesus to tell the truth? It is not as if that is the only place in the NT where that baptism is presented in connection with being saved.
Another one of those terrible translations/interpretations by versions such as the KJV.
Garbage.
a lost person cant believe the Gospel, the Gospel is hidden to the Lost and they are blinded by the devil into unbelief 2 Cor 4:3-4
The Greek word for "believe" (pisteuo) is used in James 2:19 in which we see that the demons believe that "there is one God", and also in Acts 16:31 which states believe in/on the Lord Jesus Christ, and you will be saved. So, as we can see the demons believe "mental assent" that "there is one God", yet the demons do not believe in/on the Lord Jesus Christ and are not saved. The demons lack trust and confidence in Jesus Christ for salvation, which is what results in saving belief.
Because Gods Sovereignty never violates mans will. God is the perfect gentleman, loving, good, patient, longsuffering towards us hoping and willing for none to perish but everyone come to repentance/faith in His Son.
2Co 5:14 For the love of Christ controls us, because we have concluded this: that one has died for all, therefore all have died;
God did not, cannot, create evil.
When Jesus told us to enter through the narrow gate because that gate leads to life. That statement rejects your claim that it is the regenerated that enters the narrow gate. That narrow gate obviously is the gate to being regenerated. Thus the command to enter that gate must be given to someone who has not yet entered and been regenerated.
Yes, evil pride proceeds out of the heart of men, not out of the heart of God.
You continued reference to Matthew 15:9 as a rebuttal to free will is simply wrong. It does no such thing. Here again you are a Calvinist grasping really bad interpretations to buttress your totally depraved soteriology (pun intended).
Yes, but only His role of Redeemer. He sometimes violates man's will in other instances. For instance, He violated Pharoah's will in holding His people in slavery.
The difference between believing something and believing in something is that believing IN something is faith. In Greek to believe in is typically stated as pisteuo en or pisteuo epi. Sometimes when it is obvious that the meaning is to believe in, the en or the epi is omitted.
Again, you are believing in Augustinian Gnosticism, not in God's word.
But there are many exceptions to the rule where redemption is not in consideration. The expulsion of Cain, the flood of Noah, the freedom of the Hebrews from Egypt, the suffering of Job, the Babylonian captivity, on and on and on.And thats the exception to the rule.
