Deliverance from Calvinism

[JLB]

Those are good works, you promoting salvation by works. Also only a saved regenerated man can confess Jesus as Lord by the Spirit 1 Cor 12:3

3 Wherefore I give you to understand, that no man speaking by the Spirit of God calleth Jesus accursed: and that no man can say that Jesus is the Lord, but by the Holy Ghost.

Confessing with the mouth the Lord Jesus and believing in the heart God raised Him from the dead, is the CONDITION for an unsaved person to become saved.

The Gospel is the power of God unto salvation for those who believe.

For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ, for it is the power of God to salvation for everyone who believes, for the Jew first and also for the Greek. Romans 1:16

The Holy Spirit, the Spirit of Grace, is the power that is available when the Gospel is preached that enables a person to confess Jesus as Lord when they are oppressed by Satan as their lord.


Only those who respond to the Gospel by believing will be saved.






Please explain how an unsaved person becomes saved if not by hearing and believing the gospel.

 

[TomL]

They believed because they had been born of God. In vs 12 their believing, present tense was due to having been born of God Vs 13 a aorist tense, a completed action. Plus it tells us being born of God wasnt due to the will of man, contradicting your beliefs.

Sorry, but one must believe before they receive the Spirit

John 7:38–39 (KJV 1900) — 38 He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water. 39 (But this spake he of the Spirit, which they that believe on him should receive: for the Holy Ghost was not yet given; because that Jesus was not yet glorified.)

Gal. 3:2 —KJV
“This only would I learn of you, Received ye the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?”

Gal. 3:5 —KJV
“He therefore that ministereth to you the Spirit, and worketh miracles among you, doeth he it by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?”

Galatians 3:14 (KJV 1900)
14 That the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Jesus Christ; that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.

further born of God

John 1:12–13 (LEB) — 12 But as many as received him—to those who believe in his name—he gave to them authority to become children of God, 13 who were born not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of a husband, but of God.

Galatians 3:26 (LEB) — 26 For you are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus,