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Topic: Election
There are some who think that a person must be regenerated (born again) before he or she can believe the gospel. What does the Bible say?
There are some who think that a person must be regenerated (born again) before he or she can believe the gospel. What does the Bible say?
The doctrine of election always provokes a lively discussion among Christians who have a variety of ways to explain it.
Does this passage exhort professing believers to prove that they are true believers, or does it exhort true believers to demonstrate the faith they have? At stake in the first instance is eternal salvation; at stake in the second are eternal rewards. Careful observations answer this question.
We are defining Calvinists as those committed to the theology of the five-point TULIP. ...Deterministic Calvinism raises some significant questions.
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