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delvanis said:
"A person thus regenerated will most certainly be saved"

REPLY-The difficulty with making such a broad statement such as this is twofold. 1.That all who believe the gospel, but reject following Christ will be saved anyway.How many hundreds of people do believe, but don't really commit themselves to Christ in the long run? Will one maintain then that these folks are saved? I think not.

And as I have already said, such people are unregenerate. You are attacking straw men; in fact, that's all you have been doing in this entire thread. We have attempted to point you to the Man Himself, as He is revealed in His Word, but you have instead erected an effigy and burned it.

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2.There is nowhere in scripture where regeneration precedes believing. Especially in consideration of I John 5:1 and also the fact that Christ expects men to believe and repent, BEFORE receiving eternal life. Also, if men were incapable of doing this when exposed to the gospel message, then Christ would not have stated it as something men must do to obtain eternal life.John 3:15-16.

If you will not address what I have provided from Scripture, I am not going to bother with what you provide. You haven't even begun to address what I've said, so why should I go any further in addressing you? If you cannot understand the Scripture perhaps it is that you are still a "natural man" with a "mind set on the flesh"; and if so, you will not understand unless God so wills it.

Kyle

I tell you, this man went down to his house justified.