Sentences with phrase «of unregenerate»

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.

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).

Fallibility of vision is [now] predicated of everyone, not simply of the unregenerate.

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.

If God chooses some of the unregenerate to be regenerate, then this verse should say that God chose us to be in Him.

Again, many will teach from this verse that God has chosen from the world of the unregenerate those whom He wants to receive eternal life.

With that question come the related questions of heaven, hell, judgment, and the fate of the unregenerate.

Most people recognize this, and so fall back on the second way to explain the existence of unregenerate elect Israelites.

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.

The spirit of an unregenerate man is dead.

Thus the saints» experience of enabling the participation of the unregenerate through the halfway covenant serves as a model for the formal right of political participation in society.

Not exact matches

To be fair, though, their professed belief system will technically hold that Hell is for the unregenerate and that the gates swing on the hinges of a Christ - centered redemption.

unregenerate... Hmmm To be fair, it is nice to know that all Christians that believe that the gates of hell swing on the hinges of Christ - centered redemption hold the same opinion of my eternal destination.

The only delusion that occurs is when unregenerate man looks upon that born - again child of God and assumes he has lost his mind when in fact his mind and heart have been liberated.

Following on the idea that faith is meritorious, and therefore impossible for an unregenerate person to do, Calvinists nevertheless recognize that there are scores of passages all over the New Testament which call unbelievers to believe in Jesus for eternal life.

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.

Though Peter seems to indicate his belief that the false teachers he has in mind are unregenerate (2 Pet 2:17), the denial of Jesus by Peter himself reveals that it is possible to be regenerate and still deny Jesus.

Also, to say an «Unregenerate» spirit is incapable of free volition towards good is equally absurd.

This is the strongest of the possible words that could have been used here, as it implies that Satan is in complete control of this world and therefore, unregenerate unbelievers have no ability to understand, respond, or believe the truth of the gospel of Jesus Christ.

At one point, you did get close when you wrote,» unregenerate unbelievers have no ability to understand, respond, or believe the truth of the gospel of Jesus Christ,» but you incorrectly linked this with Satan being in control of the world.

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.

Quite to the contrary, Israel, as God's elect nation, has always been composed of both regenerate and unregenerate people.

At the close of this period Satan is released and finds supporters among the unregenerated who are prepared to stand against God.

And Jonathan Edwards says in the same strain: «Those gracious influences which are the effects of the Spirit of God are altogether supernatural — are quite different from anything that unregenerate men experience.

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.

Ephesians 4:17 - 19 is often quoted along with 1 Corinthians 2:14, 2 Corinthians 4:3 - 4, and Ephesians 2:1 - 5 as evidence that the unregenerate person has no ability to understand, comprehend, or respond to the truth of God and the gospel.

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 - 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 - of Paul's statement in Romans 8:7 - 8.

Though there is much good that unregenerate people do, none of it is meritorious before God.

It is these sorts of truths that a Calvinist says an unregenerate person is unable to understand and believe on their own.

The piece is just another pathetic example of how unregenerate ministers - what are they ministering exactly?

There were numerous times I cringed at some of Boyd's terminology and ideas, such as his way of describing unregenerate people as «unrepentant» (p. 787), and his acceptance of annihilation (p. 787), but in regard to the overall purpose and goal of the book, I am most concerned with three of Boyd's four Principles of the Cruciform Hermeneutic.

By way of contrast, the non-Christian, deprived of supernatural revelation, was possessed only of natural knowledge, lived his life in the secular sphere, and performed purely secular or natural activities that merited him only a natural beatitude if they were naturally good.1 The atheist, however, being obdurate in his unbelief, was unregenerated and therefore considered unworthy even of a natural beatitude.

The antichrist is Piet Blomfeld (Eric Bana), an unregenerate white separatist with a history of apartheid - era violence who is doing major time in Pollsmoor Prison.

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.

Panofsky stresses the signs of «unregenerate nature,» of «the blind forces of growth and decay» from which the new order promises salvation.

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.