Tom~you are dead wrong, I have addressed them you just refused to listen. I'm not going to keep addressing them for you.
Tom, I do not care how you repacked your statement and say it again, your statement is an oxymoron statement, any rational thinking person must agree. Then I expect you also believe birth precedes conception~there's no difference in each position~if so, then prove it.
Sorry that is nonsense
The verses clearly teaches faith precedes the impartation of life and no life may be had without faith in Christ
faith precedes life
John 20:31 (UASV) — 31 but these are written so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in his name.
One must believe Jesus is the Christ to have life
John 5:24 (KJV) Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life.
John 5:25 Verily, verily, I say unto you, The hour is coming, and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God: and they that hear shall live.
One must hear that they may live
John 5:40 (KJV)
40 And ye will not come to me, that ye might have life. (one comes to Jesus by faith)
One must come to Christ that he might have life
Acts 11:18 (KJV)
18 When they heard these things, they held their peace, and glorified God, saying, Then hath God also to the Gentiles granted repentance unto life.
Repentance precedes being given life
John 6:53 (KJV 1900) — 53 Then Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his blood, ye have no life in you.
those who do not eat and drink that is believe and come to Christ can have no life
Calvinism reverses scripture and states if one is not given life, they can not believe
Tom, before God, I have no desire to insult anyone, I just wan tuou to consider what you are saying. Holding to a false position takes away
a person's ability to even reason rationally.
Stick to the verses then
Tom, this verse is declaring a biblical truth, one that you refuse to hear~Man's will is bound to sin and its lust, keeping them form coming to Christ.
Lets see
John 5:40 (KJV)
40 And ye will not come to me, that ye might have life. (one comes to Jesus by faith)
Nothing it stated there about being unable to come
It states they will not
They were not willing
To claim they were not able is eisegesis
The point however is faith precedes being given life
Your theology states one must be given life (regeneration) before they can believe
This verse as the others refutes your theology
When one does come to Christ, that power to come is given to them.
sorry one must come before being given life
One must first receive Christ before given the right to become children of God
that is believe in his person - BAGD
John 1:12 (KJV 1900) — 12 But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name:
One is made a child of God by regeneration
(5) The “children of God.”—Those who are “begotten of God” are ipso facto “children of God” (tékna theoú,
Jn 1:12;
11:52;
1 Jn 3:1,
2,
10;
5:2).1
1 R. Law,
“Johannine, Theology, The,” ed. James Orr et al., The International Standard Bible Encyclopaedia (Chicago: The Howard-Severance Company, 1915), 1703.
CHILDREN OF GOD. Persons in this category are only those who of the fallen race are regenerated as a result of faith in Christ1
1 Merrill F. Unger,
“Children of God,” ed. R.K. Harrison, The New Unger’s Bible Dictionary (Chicago: Moody Press, 1988).
Children of God (tekna theou). In the full spiritual sense, not as mere offspring of God true of all men (Acts 17:28). Paul's phrase huioi theou (Galatians 3:26) for believers, used also by Jesus of the pure in heart (Matthew 5:9), does not occur in John's Gospel (but in Rev. 21:7). It is possible that John prefers ta tekna tou theou for the spiritual children of God whether Jew or Gentile (John 11:52) because of the community of nature (teknon from root tek-, to beget). But one cannot follow Westcott in insisting on "adoption" as Paul's reason for the use of huioi since Jesus uses huioi theou in Matthew 5:9. Clearly the idea of regeneration is involved here as in John 3:3.
Word Pictures in the New Testament.
Sons (τέκνα)
Rev., more correctly, children. Son is υἱός. Τέκνον, child (τίκτω, to bring forth), denotes a relation based on community of nature
Word Studies in the New Testament.
τέκνα θ. γενέσθαι] The spiritual life owes its beginning to a birth from above, ch. 3:3–7. And this birth is owing to the Holy Spirit of God; so that this is equivalent to saying, ‘As many as received Him, to them gave He His Holy Spirit.’ And we find that it was so: see Acts 10:44.
Henry Alford, Alford’s Greek Testament: An Exegetical and Critical Commentary (vol. 1; Grand Rapids, MI: Guardian Press, 1976), 684.
One becomes a child of God (is regenerated) by faith in Christ
Galatians 3:26 (KJV 1900) — 26 For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.
believing one is given the right to be regenerated
Tom, the same power that resurrected the Lord from the dead is the same power wrought in each child of God when they believe, and if that power is not used in a person's life, then they cannot come...... they certianly cannot resurrect themselves from being dead in trepassess and sin~ nor, can does any preacher have the power to do so. John 1:13.
We just saw God makes alive (regenerates) those who receive Christ
You can go to Ephesians 1:19,20 and prove that I'm wrong in saying what I'm teaching.
We have already address the other scriptures you keep posting as though we have not.
Sorry no you have not but
Ephesians 1:19 (KJV 1900) — 19 And what is the exceeding greatness of his power to us-ward
who believe, according to the working of his mighty power,
God resurrects (regenerates) those who believe
You simply assume God's power is making man believe
but God makes alive those who believe as the verse shows
And Eph 1:19 is parallel to
Colossians 2:12 (KJV 1900) — 12 Buried with him in baptism, wherein also
ye are risen with him through the faith of the operation of God, who hath raised him from the dead.
Which shows we are risen with Christ through faith