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Faith is not external, something you will to have or not to have. Faith is a fruit of the Holy Spirit Only the saved experience. And salvation happens before the will ever comes into play.

They are in bed together. It will get worse as the great apostasy creeps further in.

No, they looked for the Messiah just as all Jews and Samarians did. But like today, if Christ does not reveal himself to you, you have only your ideas of what he should be to cling to.

You need all the scriptures, not just a scrapbook of favorites to support your views. You cannot have faith apart from scripture and you refuse to read most of the Limited Atonement passages. And whatever is not of faith is sin.

Perish = go to hell when you die as I use it. So why do they perish if Jesus paid for their sins?

But Jesus paid for their sins did he not? Why do so many perish?

“Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour? What if God, willing to shew his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction: And that he might make known the...

The lost Pharisees looked to the savior too. Salvation is an experience clearly noticeable.

You can make portions of scripture say whatever you want. This is the universal atonement method. But if you study what all the pertinent scriptures say, you will believe in limited atonement too, providing you are born again.

Why do nearly all perish?

I don't trust Calvin either. He believes just as you do in many things. But scripture only teaches Limited Atonement.

Passionate? Because any other atonement results in salvation by works that cannot save.

1 Peter 2:8 8 And a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offence, even to them which stumble at the word, being disobedient: whereunto also they were appointed.

But: “But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.” 1 Corinthians 2:14 (KJV 1900) “For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? even so...

Romans 11:7 7 What then? Israel hath not obtained that which he seeketh for; but the election hath obtained it, and the rest were blinded

I believe scripture.

The topic and audience are the same. No chapters or verses in the originals. Plus God cursed many Pharisees so they could not believe and be saved.

Either way. But God did curse many Pharisees so they could not believe and be saved. How can these not be the same group?

But the topic remains the same. = same group.

There are no chapters or verses in the original. Sorry. Notice the same topic.