Acts 17
30"Therefore having overlooked the times of ignorance, God is now declaring to men that all people everywhere should repent,
31because He has fixed a day in which He will judge the world in righteousness through a Man whom He has appointed, having furnished proof to all men by raising Him from the dead."
Why would God command everyone everywhere to repent if some were not able to repent?
I'm sure the 16 comments I'm going to get on this one are going to be very interesting.
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God commands us to do ALOT of things that we cannot do; it shows our depravity and God's sovereignty. God commands all to repent; and unbelief is the sin that many will go to hell committing...
So all are commanded to repent and only some have the ability to, and all who cannot repent are sent to hell because God created them unable to repent? Wow.
There are things that God commands us to do that we cannot do without Him (be holy as I am holy) but because God has commanded it we have the ability to do it through Him.
Read Matthew 7:7-11. Jesus was speaking to large crowds of people that followed Him. The only requirement for receiving something good from God is asking!
It is true that God commands people to do things that they cannot do. No one has the ability nor were created with the ability to repent. God has to do the work of regeneration and then you can repent.
Please read the other half of my post and respond to it.
I would like to see some Biblical evidence (in context) to support what you're saying.
I wanted to write a comment, but don't have the time! Love the conversations taking place though!!!
Jeff pretty much said it.
If God empowered everyone with the ability to obey based on the fact that He commanded it, then God would bring us all to repentance.
I'm not sure what you are trying to say with Matt. 7:7-11? Because it seems like it is being used out of context. Jesus is talking about God's children asking and receiving, not lost people coming to repentance.
It says that God knows how to give good things to those that ask Him.
If you ask God for salvation (because He has made you aware of your desperate need for Him) then He will give it to you.
I would have to say that I agree with Carmen, it is speaking to Christians (God's children) when it talks about asking and receiving. It is clear in Vs. 3 where Jesus is talking about the speck your "brothers" eye and in Vs. 11 Where it he says "how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask Him!" It is obvious that when he says Father that he is talking to Christians. Also right before all this in the beginning of the chapter he is talking to Christians about judging others and being hypocrites.
Jesus was using an analogy about parenthood. However, when He finished His analogy, He said, "to those who ask Him." Not "to His children."
I don't understand how he would be talking to Christians and about the things they do and then all the sudden in one sentence half-way through it talk about those that are lost.
wow, that was taken way out of context. never is God called Father, unless you are a Christian. The passage clearly calls God "your Father who is in heaven". No analogy, nothing about salvation, just God's children asking and receiving.
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