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Objection to the Gospel of Jesus Christ #4: "The Bible Simply Doesn't Say what the Gospel of Jesus Christ Says"
The free will lie, in all of its various guises has one trait common among them all: the powerlessness and worthlessness of its speech. So powerless is the speech of sin that it blatantly tries to cover this powerlessness by saying all speech is as itself and no speech exists which creates. It is not only possible but inevitable that one who has not been born again and is not elect read the Holy Scriptures in such a manner that he takes all the blatant and obvious truths of God in power as mere "information" in order to "make up his own mind" so that he will "make the right choice".
According to the free will lie the purpose of all speech is to inform so that a choice can be made. It must say this because it can of itself create nothing. Directly, one whose eyes have been blinded and ears plastered to be deceived that all speech is the powerless speech of sin reads the Holy Bible in blindness looking not for life in power but 'information' by which he should "make up his own mind". But it is God who has ultimate control over His own Word such that he confounds those whom He will confound and births those whom He will birth as real, literal new creations in Jesus Christ. God explicitly says this as spirit and as life:
John 12:37-41 But though he had done so many signs before them, they believed not on him, that the word of the prophet Esaias which he said might be fulfilled, Lord, who has believed our report? and to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed? On this account they could not believe, because Esaias said again, He has blinded their eyes and hardened their heart, that they may not see with their eyes, and understand with their heart and be converted, and I should heal them. These things said Esaias because he saw his glory and spoke of him.
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Rom 9:16-25 So then [it is] not of him that wills, nor of him that runs, but of God that shews mercy. For the scripture says to Pharaoh, For this very thing I have raised thee up from amongst [men], that I might thus shew in thee my power, and so that my name should be declared in all the earth. So then, to whom he will he shews mercy, and whom he will he hardens. Thou wilt say to me then, Why does he yet find fault? for who resists his purpose? Aye, but thou, O man, who art thou that answerest again to God? Shall the thing formed say to him that has formed it, Why hast thou made me thus? Or has not the potter authority over the clay, out of the same lump to make one vessel to honour, and another to dishonour? And if God, minded to shew his wrath and to make his power known, endured with much long-suffering vessels of wrath fitted for destruction; and that he might make known the riches of his glory upon vessels of mercy, which he had before prepared for glory, us, whom he has also called, not only from amongst [the] Jews, but also from amongst [the] nations? As he says also in Hosea, I will call not-my-people My people; and the-not-beloved Beloved.
Seeing then that God maintains at all times explicit control, power and authority over His own Word, those who read the Holy Scriptures and for whom the Holy Scriptures are not powerful as spirit and life have been blinded by God such that they see not and hear not. But such is the avarice and greed of fallen men in enslavement to sin that many act as if they have understood God's word in order that they may ensnare many more in lies and false teachings for money and praise of men, teaching such lies as universal salvation ("everybody" is going to be saved) within the free will lie. Having then spoken the free will lie, they must at all costs maintain all speech is as their own in order that they not be found out as false teachers.
They have not believed in Jesus Christ because it has not been given to them to believe in Jesus Christ in new birth. But God says through His Son that His written Word is the equivalent of His spoken Word as spirit and as life:
John 5:45-47 Think not that I will accuse you to the Father: there is
If the Word of God through Moses wasn't powerful for new birth to them, then His spoken Word wouldn't be either. Those modern 'teachers' who read the Holy Scriptures as if God's Word were merely 'information' as fuel for 'choice' always find the truth of God either metaphorical or obtuse so that they may speak on in powerless words to seem to legitimize their own unbelief. But God says of the elect:
John 10:27,28 My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me; and I give them life eternal; and they shall never perish, and no one shall seize them out of my hand.
In the Name of Jesus Christ, Amen