The Highway Forums General Discussion Open Forum Old Testament Law

<blockquote><font size=1>In reply to:</font><hr>[color:"blue"]If God is forcing one to do something, which the text of that verse indicates, one could say God is doing it. God's will cannot be resisted.</font><hr></blockquote><p>Where does it say that anyone is forced? God forces no one to do anything contrary to their will. Isn't this ironic, though? Here you are a semi-Pelagian, at best, using a distorted and unbiblical teaching of God's sovereignty, which you categorically deny against me, a Calvinist who thoroughly believes and lives by the biblical doctrine of God and His immutable sovereignty. [img]http://www.the-highway.com/w3timages/icons/rofl.gif" alt="rofl" title="rofl[/img] The fact that God regenerates a sinner does not mean that that individual is forced. In fact, regeneration frees a sinner to do that which he once refused to do..... in fact, he had no ability to do. But after regeneration, an individual believes on Christ and conforms himself to the moral law just as naturally and willingly as he once hated Christ and willing transgressed all the moral law of God. (cf. Eph 2:1-10)<blockquote><font size=1>In reply to:</font><hr>[color:"blue"]You highlighted the wrong part of the text. "It is no longer I that live" is the pertinent part. How can one who has died do anything?</font><hr></blockquote><p>Huh? Not too long ago, when we were discussing Romans 7, and it was pointed out to you that when Paul said that, "when the law came I died . . .", you vehemently wrote that this text did NOT refer to Paul, but to some unknown individual who lived before the time of Moses and the giving of the Ten Commandments? [img]http://www.the-highway.com/w3timages/icons/drop.gif" alt="drop" title="drop[/img] One dies to the "old man" and puts on the "new man". It is a spiritual phenomena that this "dying" is referring to; i.e., a sinner who has been given new life in Christ by the regenerating work of the Holy Spirit dies to self and all that the natural man desires. But he becomes alive to God and thus desires and does that which is pleasing to Him. These things belong to "Bible 101"!<blockquote>Hebrews 5:11-14 (ASV) "Of whom we have many things to say, and hard of interpretation, seeing ye are become dull of hearing. For when by reason of the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need again that some one teach you the rudiments of the first principles of the oracles of God; and are become such as have need of milk, and not of solid food. For every one that partaketh of milk is without experience of the word of righteousness; for he is a babe. But solid food is for fullgrown men, [even] those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern good and evil."</blockquote>In His Grace,