(June 9, 2016 at 3:06 am)madog Wrote:(June 9, 2016 at 2:36 am)Godschild Wrote: Seems to me you still are, I on the other hand stated what the Bible says and that isn't arrogance. You can't answer the post with anything other than such a small diversion you shouldn't answer at all.
GC
If you can show me where in the bible it states you have an understanding far above mine I will recant
1 Corinthians 2:14 The natural person (this would be you) does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him, and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned.
1 Cor. 1:18 For the word of the cross is folly to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.
2 Cor. 3:14 But their minds were hardened. To this day when they read the old covenant, that same veil remains unlifted, because only through Christ is it lifted.
2 Cor. 4:3-4 And even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled only to those who are perishing. In their case the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelievers, to keep them from seeing the light of the gospel.....
James 1:5-8
Mark 4: 11-12 And Jesus said to them, "To you has been given the secret of the kingdom of God, but for those outside everything is in parables, so that they may indeed but not perceive, and may indeed hear but not understand....
John 8:43 Jesus says, "Why do you not understand what I say? It is because you can not bear to hear my word.
GC
God loves those who believe and those who do not and the same goes for me, you have no choice in this matter. That puts the matter of total free will to rest.