The Calvinists eisegesis of John 6:55

[atpollard]

Mentioning Abraham's wife does not change a verse

Hello that was the entirety of your argument and it does nothing

to prove your theology, as was pointed out.

God told ABRAM to leave, and Abram took as many people with him as he could (obey God, but trust in your resources).

Abram decided to leave the land that God had sent him to and go to Egypt (obey God, until your plan seems better).

Abram chose to employ lies and deceit in Egypt (obey God, but trust in human scheming).

Clearly, God chose Abram out of all of humanity because of Abrams innate moral superiority.

Nothing in that story could POSSIBLY support a doctrine that God chooses and saves sinful people as a matter of 100% His grace and in spite of our lack of merit (the Doctrines of Grace).

 

[TomL]

God told ABRAM to leave, and Abram took as many people with him as he could (obey God, but trust in your resources).

The scriptures tells us, Abraham believed God and it was counted to him for righteousness (Genesis 15:6; Romans 4:3, 9, 22; Galatians 3; 6; James 2:23).

Hello, that in itself refutes the Calvinist idea of total inability.

He cannot do so according to Calvinism

You cannot escape his believing God by pointing out a single failure of Abraham concerning his wife
Can you deny his believing God is contrary to your doctrine?

Abram decided to leave the land that God had sent him to and go to Egypt (obey God, until your plan seems better).

Genesis 12:10 (LEB) — 10 And there was a famine in the land. And Abram went down to Egypt to dwell as an alien there, for the famine was severe in the land.

Abram chose to employ lies and deceit in Egypt (obey God, but trust in human scheming).

There you go with the wife thing.

She was actually a sister, the daughter of Abraham's father.

Genesis 20:12 (LEB) — 12 Besides, she is my sister, the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother. And she became my wife.

Sarai agreed

Here however is a thing toward God

Nehemiah 9:7–8 (LEB) — 7 You are Yahweh, the God who chose Abram and brought him from Ur of the Chaldeans and named him Abraham. 8 You found his heart faithful before you and made a covenant with him to give the land of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite, the Perizzite, the Jebusite and the Girgashite—to give it to his seed. And you have kept your word because you are righteous.

2 Chronicles 20:7 (LEB) — 7 O, our God, did you yourself not drive out the inhabitants of this land before your people Israel and give it to the descendants of Abraham your friend forever?

Um, in your theology, all hate God.

Isaiah 41:8 (LEB) — 8 But you, Israel, my servant, Jacob, whom I have chosen, you, the offspring of Abraham my friend,

God, however, seems pretty sure Abraham was his friend.

Oh and he was declared righteous because he believed God

James 2:23 (LEB) — 23 And the scripture was fulfilled that says, “And Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him for righteousness,” and he was called God’s friend.

Total inability is clearly an unbiblical doctrine

 

[TomL]

Nope.
Since you were ignoring the points being raised, I felt no obligation to read your same wall of text for a third time.

Did the people that Moses spoke to in Deuteronomy 30 actually OBEY and “lived happily ever after” or did the nation REJECT God to demand a king, ignore and kill the prophets, worship false gods and ultimately face JUDGEMENT at the hands of Babylon? Until you admit what really happened, there is no point in moving past your FIRST example.

God said that GOD chose a remanent for Himself, but scripture never claims that a remanent chose God of their own free will.

You had no points

Do you have any evidence no one obeyed?

Did God's statement they may do it not contradict your doctrine which states they cannot?

Did you ever hear of Joshua

Deuteronomy 31:7–14 (LEB) — 7 Then Moses summoned Joshua, and he said to him in the presence of all Israel, “Be strong and be courageous, for you will go with this people into the land that Yahweh swore to their ancestors to give to them, and you will give it to them as an inheritance. 8 Yahweh is the one going before you; he will be with you, and he will not leave you alone, and he will not forsake you; you shall not be afraid, and you shall not be discouraged.” 9 So Moses wrote this law, and he gave it to the priests, the descendants of Levi, the ones carrying the ark of the covenant of Yahweh, and to all the elders of Israel. 10 Then Moses commanded them, saying, “At the end of seven years, in the time of the year for canceling debts during the Feast of Booths, 11 when all Israel comes to appear before Yahweh their God at the place that he will choose, you shall read this law before all Israel in their hearing. 12 Assemble the people, the men and the women and the little children and your aliens that are in your towns, so that they may hear and so that they may learn and they may revere Yahweh your God, and they shall diligently observe all the words of this law. 13 And then their children, who have not known, they too may hear, and they may learn to revere Yahweh their God all the days that you live on the land that you are crossing the Jordan to get there to take possession of it.” 14 Then Yahweh said to Moses, “Look, you are about to die; call Joshua and present yourselves in the tent of assembly, so that I may instruct him.” So Moses and Joshua went and presented themselves in the tent of assembly.

Moses’ successor, Joshua,

Deuteronomy 34:9–12 (LEB) — 9 Now Joshua the son of Nun was full of the spirit of wisdom because Moses had placed his hands on him, and the Israelites listened to him, and they did as Yahweh had commanded Moses. 10 And not again has a prophet arisen in Israel like Moses, whom Yahweh knew face to face, 11 as far as all the signs and the wonders Yahweh sent him to do in the land of Egypt, against Pharaoh and all of his servants and against all of his land, 12 and as far as all of the mighty deeds and as far as the great awesome wonders Moses did before the eyes of all Israel.

well it seems during his day

Joshua 24:31 (LEB) — 31 Israel served Yahweh all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders who lived long after Joshua, and who had known all the work that Yahweh did for Israel.
Joshua 11:15 (LEB) — 15 Just as Yahweh commanded Moses his servant, so Moses commanded Joshua, and Joshua did; he left nothing undone that Yahweh had commanded Moses.

And you are in error.

Will you believe scripture and give up your doctrine now?

 

[atpollard]

The scriptures tells us, Abraham believed God and it was counted to him for righteousness (Genesis 15:6; Romans 4:3, 9, 22; Galatians 3; 6; James 2:23).

Hello, that in itself refutes the Calvinist idea of total inability.

When did Abraham believe God? Note that it says “Abraham” and not “Abram”.
You refuse to even consider that there is a difference between JUSTIFICATION and SANCTIFICATION.

Abram was called by God to “follow”. At that moment (Genesis 12), Abram was not a good man. Abram was not a “righteous” man before God called him. Abram was not a “righteous” man in Genesis 12. As stated in the beginning of Genesis 12, God had a plan and God was going to MAKE Abram a “righteous” man. What Abram was at the start of Genesis 12 is a “natural man”. The transformation from natural “Abram” to righteous “Abraham” is parallel to justification in the New Covenant.

Calvinism and “total inability” are all about JUSTIFICATION. They focus on what GOD DOES to bring us from the sort of man that “hedges all his bets” (just like Abram did) to being “righteous” and placing all our faith in God (like Abraham ultimately did). That transforming work of God is the subject of TULIP. Our walking in the “good works which God prepared beforehand” (Eph 2:10) is sanctification and comes AFTER TULIP.

You need to stop pointing to SANCTIFICATION as proof that TULIP is false. Genesis 12 shows that even the “father of faith” (Abraham) was not born “righteous” … it was a gift of God, not of yourself, that anyone should boast (Eph 2:8-9).

 

[Presby02]

Sorry the audience does not make God's word false

Read again as God says they can do it.

Your theology says they cannot.

Deuteronomy 30:11–20 (LEB) — 11 “For this commandment that I am commanding you today is not too wonderful for you, and it is not too far from you. 12 It is not in the heavens so that you might say, ‘Who will go up for us to the heavens and get it for us and cause us to hear it, so that we may do it?’ 13 And it is not beyond the sea, so that you might say, ‘Who will cross for us to the other side of the sea and take it for us and cause us to hear it, so that we may do it?’ 14 But the word is very near you, even in your mouth and in your heart, so that you may do it. 15 “See, I am setting before you today life and prosperity and death and disaster; 16 what I am commanding you today is to love Yahweh your God by going in his ways and by keeping his commandments and his statutes and his regulations, and then you will live, and you will become numerous, and Yahweh your God will bless you in the land where you are going. 17 However, if your heart turns aside and you do not listen and you are lured away and you bow down to other gods and you serve them, 18 I declare to you today that you will certainly perish; you will not extend your time on the land that you are crossing the Jordan to go there to take possession of it. 19 I invoke as a witness against you today the heaven and the earth: life and death I have set before you, blessing and curse. So choose life, so that you may live, you and your offspring, 20 by loving Yahweh your God by listening to his voice and by clinging to him, for he is your life and the length of your days in order for you to live on the land that Yahweh swore to your ancestors, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give to them.”

There is no way you can make so that you may do it, mean you cannot do it

Afraid not, as if he were to act according to Calvinism, he could do none of these.

Do you seriously believe God termed him righteous if all he did was unrighteous?

From the post that which you failed to address


WHAT ABOUT ABRAHAM?

The scriptures tells us, Abraham believed God and it was counted to him for righteousness (Genesis 15:6; Romans 4:3, 9, 22; Galatians 3; 6; James 2:23).

Hello, that in itself refutes the Calvinist idea of total inability.

He cannot do so according to Calvinism

You cannot escape his believing God by pointing out a single failure of Abraham concerning his wife

Abraham had integrity of heart (Genesis 20:5-6)

Contra Calvinism/Calvinist-type theology


and a faithful heart towards God(Nehemiah 9:7, 8)

Contra Calvinism/Calvinist-type theology

And Abraham is called the friend of God (2 Chronicles 20:7; Isaiah 41:8; James 2:23).

Mentioning Abraham's wife does not change a verse

Both clearly dispute the Calvinist/Calvinist-type theology of all men having a natural hatred toward God.

Throughout scripture God is referred to as the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob (Matthew 32:22; Mark 12:26; Luke 20:37; Acts 3:13; 7:32).

Jesus said Abraham rejoiced to see my day: and he saw it, and was glad (John 8:56) and God’s promise to Abraham was to bless all the nations through his seed: Jesus Christ (Acts 3:25; Galatians 3:16).

Abraham is called the father of faith and the father of all who believe (Romans 4:16; Galatians 3:7, 9, 29) and the blessing of Abraham comes on the Gentiles through faith in Jesus Christ (Galatians 3:14).

Abraham was a man of faith who obeyed and feared God (Genesis 22: 12; 26:5; Hebrews 11:8). We see also that Isaac and Jacob were men of faith who feared the Lord and obeyed him as well.

Calvinism/Calvinist-type theology is contrary to scripture.

I did not say it did. So who is the audience or the "who" in the text you orginally posted in Deuteronomy? Try actually answering instead of the mindless cutting and pasting.

 

[Presby02]

Sorry the audience does not make God's word false

Read again as God says they can do it.

Your theology says they cannot.

Deuteronomy 30:11–20 (LEB) — 11 “For this commandment that I am commanding you today is not too wonderful for you, and it is not too far from you. 12 It is not in the heavens so that you might say, ‘Who will go up for us to the heavens and get it for us and cause us to hear it, so that we may do it?’ 13 And it is not beyond the sea, so that you might say, ‘Who will cross for us to the other side of the sea and take it for us and cause us to hear it, so that we may do it?’ 14 But the word is very near you, even in your mouth and in your heart, so that you may do it. 15 “See, I am setting before you today life and prosperity and death and disaster; 16 what I am commanding you today is to love Yahweh your God by going in his ways and by keeping his commandments and his statutes and his regulations, and then you will live, and you will become numerous, and Yahweh your God will bless you in the land where you are going. 17 However, if your heart turns aside and you do not listen and you are lured away and you bow down to other gods and you serve them, 18 I declare to you today that you will certainly perish; you will not extend your time on the land that you are crossing the Jordan to go there to take possession of it. 19 I invoke as a witness against you today the heaven and the earth: life and death I have set before you, blessing and curse. So choose life, so that you may live, you and your offspring, 20 by loving Yahweh your God by listening to his voice and by clinging to him, for he is your life and the length of your days in order for you to live on the land that Yahweh swore to your ancestors, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give to them.”

There is no way you can make so that you may do it, mean you cannot do it

Afraid not, as if he were to act according to Calvinism, he could do none of these.

Do you seriously believe God termed him righteous if all he did was unrighteous?

From the post that which you failed to address


WHAT ABOUT ABRAHAM?

The scriptures tells us, Abraham believed God and it was counted to him for righteousness (Genesis 15:6; Romans 4:3, 9, 22; Galatians 3; 6; James 2:23).

Hello, that in itself refutes the Calvinist idea of total inability.

He cannot do so according to Calvinism

You cannot escape his believing God by pointing out a single failure of Abraham concerning his wife

Abraham had integrity of heart (Genesis 20:5-6)

Contra Calvinism/Calvinist-type theology


and a faithful heart towards God(Nehemiah 9:7, 8)

Contra Calvinism/Calvinist-type theology

And Abraham is called the friend of God (2 Chronicles 20:7; Isaiah 41:8; James 2:23).

Mentioning Abraham's wife does not change a verse

Both clearly dispute the Calvinist/Calvinist-type theology of all men having a natural hatred toward God.

Throughout scripture God is referred to as the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob (Matthew 32:22; Mark 12:26; Luke 20:37; Acts 3:13; 7:32).

Jesus said Abraham rejoiced to see my day: and he saw it, and was glad (John 8:56) and God’s promise to Abraham was to bless all the nations through his seed: Jesus Christ (Acts 3:25; Galatians 3:16).

Abraham is called the father of faith and the father of all who believe (Romans 4:16; Galatians 3:7, 9, 29) and the blessing of Abraham comes on the Gentiles through faith in Jesus Christ (Galatians 3:14).

Abraham was a man of faith who obeyed and feared God (Genesis 22: 12; 26:5; Hebrews 11:8). We see also that Isaac and Jacob were men of faith who feared the Lord and obeyed him as well.

Calvinism/Calvinist-type theology is contrary to scripture.

I did not say it did. So who is the audience or the "who" in the text you orginally posted in Deuteronomy? Try actually answering instead of the mindless cutting and pasting.

 

[TomL]

I did not say it did. So who is the audience or the "who" in the text you orginally posted in Deuteronomy? Try actually answering instead of the mindless cutting and pasting.

Mindless? Verses that totally refute your doctrine of total inability by the very word of God saying they could do it?

It was Jews around the time of Moses's end of life and the period of Joshua's appointment.

Jews here who did serve Yahweh

Joshua 24:31 (LEB) — 31 Israel served Yahweh all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders who lived long after Joshua, and who had known all the work that Yahweh did for Israel.
Joshua 11:15 (LEB) — 15 Just as Yahweh commanded Moses his servant, so Moses commanded Joshua, and Joshua did; he left nothing undone that Yahweh had commanded Moses.
You need to deal with the actual word of God
Deuteronomy 30:11–20 (NASB95) — 11 “For this commandment which I command you today is not too difficult for you, nor is it out of reach. 12 “It is not in heaven, that you should say, ‘Who will go up to heaven for us to get it for us and make us hear it, that we may observe it?’ 13 “Nor is it beyond the sea, that you should say, ‘Who will cross the sea for us to get it for us and make us hear it, that we may observe it?’ 14 “But the word is very near you, in your mouth and in your heart, that you may observe it. 15 “See, I have set before you today life and prosperity, and death and adversity; 16 in that I command you today to love the LORD your God, to walk in His ways and to keep His commandments and His statutes and His judgments, that you may live and multiply, and that the LORD your God may bless you in the land where you are entering to possess it. 17 “But if your heart turns away and you will not obey, but are drawn away and worship other gods and serve them, 18 I declare to you today that you shall surely perish. You will not prolong your days in the land where you are crossing the Jordan to enter and possess it. 19 “I call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that I have set before you life and death, the blessing and the curse. So choose life in order that you may live, you and your descendants, 20 by loving the LORD your God, by obeying His voice, and by holding fast to Him; for this is your life and the length of your days, that you may live in the land which the LORD swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to give them.”

 

[TomL]

I did not say it did. So who is the audience or the "who" in the text you orginally posted in Deuteronomy? Try actually answering instead of the mindless cutting and pasting.

You are repeating your failure to deal with the words of God

Can you really call the very words of God, which contradict your theology mindless?

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I did not say it did. So who is the audience or the "who" in the text you orginally posted in Deuteronomy? Try actually answering instead of the mindless cutting and pasting.

Mindless? Verses that totally refute your doctrine of total inability by the very word of God saying they could do it?

It was Jews around the time of Moses's end of life and the period of Joshua's appointment.

Jews here who did serve Yahweh

Joshua 24:31 (LEB) — 31 Israel served Yahweh all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders who lived long after Joshua, and who had known all the work that...

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[TomL]

When did Abraham believe God? Note that it says “Abraham” and not “Abram”.
You refuse to even consider that there is a difference between JUSTIFICATION and SANCTIFICATION.

Abram was called by God to “follow”. At that moment (Genesis 12), Abram was not a good man. Abram was not a “righteous” man before God called him. Abram was not a “righteous” man in Genesis 12. As stated in the beginning of Genesis 12, God had a plan and God was going to MAKE Abram a “righteous” man. What Abram was at the start of Genesis 12 is a “natural man”. The transformation from natural “Abram” to righteous “Abraham” is parallel to justification in the New Covenant.

Calvinism and “total inability” are all about JUSTIFICATION. They focus on what GOD DOES to bring us from the sort of man that “hedges all his bets” (just like Abram did) to being “righteous” and placing all our faith in God (like Abraham ultimately did). That transforming work of God is the subject of TULIP. Our walking in the “good works which God prepared beforehand” (Eph 2:10) is sanctification and comes AFTER TULIP.

You need to stop pointing to SANCTIFICATION as proof that TULIP is false. Genesis 12 shows that even the “father of faith” (Abraham) was not born “righteous” … it was a gift of God, not of yourself, that anyone should boast (Eph 2:8-9).

You have totally failed to show God had in any manner changed the nature of Abraham from one born in hatred of God with an inability to repent, to believe, to come to a position of believing or loving God

But the scriptures tells us, Abraham believed God and it was counted to him for righteousness (Genesis 15:6; Romans 4:3, 9, 22; Galatians 3; 6; James 2:23).

Genesis 15:6 (LEB) — 6 And he believed in Yahweh, and he reckoned it to him as righteousness.

BTW this he is Abram, who believed and was recognized as righteous. (Only Abram was mentioned in ch 15)

Romans 4:1–3 (LEB) — 1 What then shall we say that Abraham, our ancestor according to the flesh, has found? 2 For if Abraham was justified by works, he has something to boast about, but not before God. 3 For what does the scripture say? “And Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him for righteousness.”

Romans 4:9 (LEB) — 9 Therefore, is this blessing for those who are circumcised, or also for those who are uncircumcised? For we say, “Faith was credited to Abraham for righteousness.”

Romans 4:19–22 (LEB) — 19 And not being weak in faith, he considered his own body as good as dead, because he was approximately a hundred years old, and the deadness of Sarah’s womb. 20 And he did not waver in unbelief at the promise of God, but was strengthened in faith, giving glory to God 21 and being fully convinced that what he had promised, he was also able to do. 22 Therefore it was credited to him for righteousness.

Hello, that in itself refutes the Calvinist idea of total inability.

He cannot do so according to Calvinism

Yet we read

God found his heart faithful


Nehemiah 9:7–8 (LEB) — 7 You are Yahweh, the God who chose Abram and brought him from Ur of the Chaldeans and named him Abraham. 8 You found his heart faithful before you and made a covenant with him to give the land of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite, the Perizzite, the Jebusite and the Girgashite—to give it to his seed. And you have kept your word because you are righteous.

The text states God found his heart faithful, not that he made his heart faithful.

And that was Abram

2 Chronicles 20:7 (LEB) — 7 O, our God, did you yourself not drive out the inhabitants of this land before your people Israel and give it to the descendants of Abraham your friend forever?

Um, in your theology, all hate God.

Isaiah 41:8 (LEB) — 8 But you, Israel, my servant, Jacob, whom I have chosen, you, the offspring of Abraham my friend,

God, however, seems pretty sure Abraham was his friend.

Oh and he was declared righteous because he believed God

James 2:23 (LEB) — 23 And the scripture was fulfilled that says, “And Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him for righteousness,” and he was called God’s friend.

Nowhere do we read Abraham was born totally unable to believe or love God but was sovereignly and unconditionally changed as your theology requires.

Total inability is clearly an unbiblical doctrine.

 

[atpollard]

You have totally failed to show God had in any manner changed the nature of Abraham from one born in hatred of God with an inability to repent, to believe, to come to a position of believing or loving God

... but I did show Abram was NOT righteous when God called him and afterwards as he journeyed to Egypt - Abram was a sinful man that rejected the ways of God for the schemes of man just like everyone else. [Ephesians 2:1-3 ... "And you He made alive, who were dead in trespasses and sins, in which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who now works in the sons of disobedience, among whom also we all once conducted ourselves in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, just as the others."]

Genesis 12:2-3 [NKJV]
"I will make you a great nation;
I will bless you
And make your name great;
And you shall be a blessing.
I will bless those who bless you,
And I will curse him who curses you;
And in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed."

... it was all about what GOD chose to do, not what Abram deserved because of some imaginary innate righteousness in man.


Romans 3:10-12 [NKJV]
As it is written:
"There is none righteous, no, not one;
There is none who understands;
There is none who seeks after God.
They have all turned aside;
They have together become unprofitable;
There is none who does good, no, not one."

... According to Paul (and SCRIPTURE, which Paul quoted):
How many people are innately righteous?
(hint: "none", "not one")

 

[TomL]

... but I did show Abram was NOT righteous when God called him and afterwards as he journeyed to Egypt - Abram was a sinful man that rejected the ways of God for the schemes of man just like everyone else. [Ephesians 2:1-3 ... "And you He made alive, who were dead in trespasses and sins, in which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who now works in the sons of disobedience, among whom also we all once conducted ourselves in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, just as the others."]

Um what you did was fail to report Abram words were in fact true concerning his sister /wife

You also failed to show anything God had done to irresistibly change the nature of Abram.

So you had no answer at all for the scripture statements

But the scriptures tells us, Abraham believed God and it was counted to him for righteousness (Genesis 15:6; Romans 4:3, 9, 22; Galatians 3; 6; James 2:23).

Genesis 15:6 (LEB) — 6 And he believed in Yahweh, and he reckoned it to him as righteousness.

BTW this he is Abram, who believed and was recognized as righteous. (Only Abram was mentioned in ch 15)

Romans 4:1–3 (LEB) — 1 What then shall we say that Abraham, our ancestor according to the flesh, has found? 2 For if Abraham was justified by works, he has something to boast about, but not before God. 3 For what does the scripture say? “And Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him for righteousness.”

Romans 4:9 (LEB) — 9 Therefore, is this blessing for those who are circumcised, or also for those who are uncircumcised? For we say, “Faith was credited to Abraham for righteousness.”

Romans 4:19–22 (LEB) — 19 And not being weak in faith, he considered his own body as good as dead, because he was approximately a hundred years old, and the deadness of Sarah’s womb. 20 And he did not waver in unbelief at the promise of God, but was strengthened in faith, giving glory to God 21 and being fully convinced that what he had promised, he was also able to do. 22 Therefore it was credited to him for righteousness.

Hello, that in itself refutes the Calvinist idea of total inability.

He cannot do so according to Calvinism

Yet we read

God found his heart faithful

Nehemiah 9:7–8 (LEB) — 7 You are Yahweh, the God who chose Abram and brought him from Ur of the Chaldeans and named him Abraham. 8 You found his heart faithful before you and made a covenant with him to give the land of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite, the Perizzite, the Jebusite and the Girgashite—to give it to his seed. And you have kept your word because you are righteous.

The text states God found his heart faithful, not that he made his heart faithful.

And that was Abram

2 Chronicles 20:7 (LEB) — 7 O, our God, did you yourself not drive out the inhabitants of this land before your people Israel and give it to the descendants of Abraham your friend forever?

Um, in your theology, all hate God.

Isaiah 41:8 (LEB) — 8 But you, Israel, my servant, Jacob, whom I have chosen, you, the offspring of Abraham my friend,

God, however, seems pretty sure Abraham was his friend.

Oh and he was declared righteous because he believed God

James 2:23 (LEB) — 23 And the scripture was fulfilled that says, “And Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him for righteousness,” and he was called God’s friend.

Nowhere do we read Abraham (Abram) was born totally unable to believe or love God but was sovereignly and unconditionally changed as your theology requires.

Abraham was declared righteous based upon his faith.

You were also wrong in appealing to his name change.

For the scripture still had him listed as Abram when declared righteous based on faith.

Genesis 12:2-3 [NKJV]
"I will make you a great nation;
I will bless you
And make your name great;
And you shall be a blessing.
I will bless those who bless you,
And I will curse him who curses you;
And in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed."

... it was all about what GOD chose to do, not what Abram deserved because of some imaginary innate righteousness in man.

Nothing there addresses the faith of Abraham.

Hello

And the argument is not about men deserving blessings.

And, by the way, scripture speaking of the faith of Abraham is not some imaginary tale but a scripturally declared fact.

Romans 3:10-12 [NKJV]
As it is written:
"There is none righteous, no, not one;
There is none who understands;
There is none who seeks after God.
They have all turned aside;
They have together become unprofitable;
There is none who does good, no, not one."

... According to Paul (and SCRIPTURE, which Paul quoted):
How many people are innately righteous?
(hint: "none", "not one")

Here is where you miss the truth, ignoring what was plainly stated.

Men are declared righteous based on faith.

And Abraham (Abram) was declared righteous based on his faith.

Why do you avoid scripture's exposition on how men are declared righteous?