Sentences with phrase «unregenerate people»

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.

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.

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

With this view, even unregenerate people, like Pharaoh, Cyrus, Judas, and the Jewish people can be chosen, even if they never received eternal life.

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

impression that Calvinism taught that unregenerate people can not even «seek after God».

Sometimes, God chooses unregenerate people (such as Pharaoh, Cyrus, and Judas) to accomplish His purposes.

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.

Therefore, it is highly improper to apply Titus 1:15 to the unregenerate person.

This shows, even more interestingly, that Abram, as an unregenerate person, is able to hear God (Genesis 12:1 - 3; 13:14), see God (Genesis 12:7), respond to God (Genesis 12:4; 13:18), and teach others about God (Genesis 13:3 - 4).

It is further complicated though in that this separation will ultimately lead to death so that's why the unregenerate person is already as good as dead.

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!

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Not exact matches

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.

First, as sinful, unregenerate human beings, people can do nothing good for God, nothing to earn or merit eternal life, and nothing which might put them in God's good graces.

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.

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

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.

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.