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It's simple. Despite whatever differences in theological outlook I may have with Universalist Christians, I don't see them as deviating...

I'm familiar with this sort of reasoning, but it's not true. There's no ability to boast in receiving a gift, it remains charity. A...

Those verses don't contradict a need for receiving the gift. Grace and faith don't negate the action of the will, nor does a passive...

Justification is not all there is to salvation, justification is freely given to all but salvation must be received willingly.

It's clear at this point we're not going to get anywhere in this discussion, so I wish you the best and God bless.

There are other final causes than God, at least in the Aristotlean sense of final cause. A hairbrushes final cause is brushing hair, a...

It's not that everyone means the wrong thing by the word "why," but that common usage isn't the best starting point for a discussion...

Nope, final cause is the purpose or telos of an object. The end to which it is directed. Certainly, but that's a bit irrelevant to our...

There's nothing arbitrary in my restriction, because the ordinary usage of the word is sloppy and leads to semantic confusion since...

I understand your point, but it shows a twisted way of thinking. On top of that, you're not drawing your point from the Bible but using...

Romans 3:10-12 is completely out of context there, and has nothing to do with what you've written in addition to it.

It's not, it's only when passages are ripped out as proof texts that they may be forced into support of being against free will. For...

I never understand why anyone would argue against free will. If we don't have free will, then no one who believes(or doesn't believe) in...

It just means to weave something. It's not specific to any particular object. Job 10:11 uses the same word and it's talking more about...

The ancient isrealites wouldn't have known about DNA. So if it were truly about DNA, then that's a revelation that the original audience...