They are
not unregenerate sheep.
This would then have nothing to do with whether or
not the unregenerate person could understand the offer of eternal life through faith in Jesus Christ, and believe in Him as a result.
Not exact matches
scot Calling everyone
unregenerate is pretty childish, since you also are unregebnerate, and can
not show you were ever born again or regenerate.
17 times just on this page alone, scot has said «i'm sticking my fingers in my ears and yelling LALALALALA» by claiming people who don't believe as he does are «
unregenerate» and implies you have to believe to see god... standard believer nonsense, but 17 times on one page alone shows the immaturity level.
It does
not necessarily refer to the
unregenerate, but to the person who is operating solely (pun intended) through their flesh.
When the gospel, the kingdom of God, and the offer of eternal life are rightly proclaimed, they have great drawing power to all who are
unregenerate, for they contain the light and life that people have been searching for, but
not finding.
Therefore, even if God graciously gave faith to an
unregenerate person, it would
not matter because the person — as an
unregenerate — would
not be able to believe!
Because of the moral bondage of the
unregenerate sinner, he can
not have faith until he is changed internally by the operative, monergistic work of the Holy Spirit.
There would be no reason to hold people responsible for believing or failing to believe in Jesus if the
unregenerate person can
not actually believe.
impression that Calvinism taught that
unregenerate people can
not even «seek after God».
In my understanding the Greek for lawlessness is basically unsaved,
unregenerated,
not sealed by the HS.
The image of God in man has been defaced, so that there remains only an awareness of God's power and law, and therefore of condemnation and wrath; but there is
not in
unregenerate man any power to know, express or share the love which alone can restore him to his true humanity.
According to John, the evil from which Christ saves his people is
not so much sin as it is an inner darkness of man's
unregenerate nature, a profound privation of true light, true knowledge, and true life.
Of course, having said this, it is important to note that the
unregenerate person is
not the subject of Paul's statement in Romans 8:7 - 8.
So the one who is «dead in trespasses and sins,» is
not unable to respond to the Gospel or believe in Jesus, for «dead» does
not mean «non-existent» or «unable,» but refers instead to the separation from God that the
unregenerate person experiences.
Paul, in establishing the universal guilt of both Jews and Gentiles (Romans 3:1, 9), quotes from the Old Testament to give weight to his arguments,
not to charge each individual of the human race in particular with every indictment, nor to teach the inability of the
unregenerate man to believe on Jesus Christ.
Fallibility of vision is [now] predicated of everyone,
not simply of the
unregenerate.
He is
not accountable; he is proud; he doesn't trust God very much at all; and he is always angry and very hateful of
unregenerate sinners (and even some believers who may happen to listen to «rock» music or vote the wrong way).
When gospel - related themes about justice, peace, and equality are raised in the various elements of culture, the church may suspect that these issues did
not rise solely out of the hearts and minds of
unregenerate people, but were created by the gentle breezes of the Spirit upon all people in our society.
But against it, deeply entrench'd, holding possession, yet remains, (
not only through the churches and schools, but by imaginative literature, and
unregenerate poetry,) the fossil theology of the mythic - materialistic, superstitious, untaught and credulous, fable - loving, primitive ages of humanity.
The most aggressive drivers won't of course * care * what is said about them, but we can only try, and hope that for the
unregenerate stupid - risk - takers, Darwin's law operates so as to kill / maim them before they kill or maim other people.