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On hearing this, Jesus said to them, "It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners."
Orthodox christianity believes that he came to call the righteous , they will flat out deny it , but their confession proves they do .
They on the one hand tells us there is none that are righteous and in the next breathe they believe they are righteous enough to make a quality decision to believe in Jesus.
If you will not believe passages such as Acts 16:31, or John 3:16, or John 3:36, or John 8:24, then I shall not waste my time trying to explain it to you.
I actually believe all the above passages just not orthodox christianty's take on them.
Do you really believe that the jailers decision to believe was a spur of the moment decision ? .
When i believed it was because He brought me to it, after doing something inside me throughout my whole life , regarding times , locations and circumstances.
You also seem that you are an intelligent guy , yet you haven't answered my question regarding how if you never had any say in your natural birth how can you with your spiritual birth . All you did was quote scripture at me.
My question is if you are a carnal man dead in sin, how can you make a righteous decision to believe and have faith if, by God's own words, no one seeks after righteousness...
29"Therefore since we are God's offspring, we should not think that the divine being is like gold or silver or stoneāan image made by man's design and skill Acts 17
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