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I was not able to respond immediately because I've been so busy. Since I do not have much time to make lengthy letters, I decided to go directly to the discussions of your answers to my questions. I am sending you follow-up questions. I hope you'll be able to prove the correctness of your answers:
1. Why do you call Adam's will as freewill as stated
in the Confessions of Faith, if in the strictest
sense, according to your answer,
Adam has no freewill? Who is right, you or the
Confessions of Faith?
2. Since you've said that Adam has no freewill, whose
will was it that Adam fell into sin?
3. Did God desire the fall of Adam into sin?
4. In the #4 question of my recent letter, I asked,
"...is it not possible also for a sinner to will to
choose, believe in Christ, when
he is under the influence of the Holy Spirit?" Your answer is.
"Why not?" You mean, you already
agree with me that a depraved spiritually dead sinner can
will to choose to believe in Jesus
when he is under the influence of the Holy Spirit?
5. Seemingly, you didn't answer my #4 question properly
and you did not answer my fifth
question. Your answer to my #4
question is:"The Holy Spirit will enable the spirit-quickened
sinner to repentance and put his
trust to the Lord Jesus Christ for salvation." Perhaps,
you didn't get my point.
I am referring to unregenerated or lost sinner. For clarification,
I am asking again the same question:
Is it not possible for a spiritually dead or lost
sinner to will to choose and trust
Jesus when the Holy Spirit invites or influences him?
6. Since you haven't answered my #4 and #5 questions,
I will restate the fifth question for
clarification: Since it is possible
for a man without a depraved nature, as in the case of
Adam. to will to sin
when under Satan's influence, why do you think it is impossible
for a child of the Devil
with a depraved nature, to will to choose God when he is under
the influence of the Holy
Spirit? Remember that you have avoided my question by
referring only to
the "Spirit-quickened sinner."
7. Since the regenerated people (whose wills are
enslaved to God), can still commit sin
sometimes when influenced by Satan,
why can't the unregenerated people whose
wills are enslaved to the Devil,
choose to trust Christ when under the influence of the
Holy Spirit?
8. Do you mean that the Spirit's influence is limited
only to the regenerated? Can't the Spirit
exercise influence also upon the
unregenerated individuals? If the Devil can exercise influence
upon the regenerated, Why can't
God influence the unregenerated to believe?
9. Your answer to my #7 question is: "God can
influence a vile sinner to trust Him."
What do you mean by a "vile
sinner," regenerated or unregenerated? If you mean the
regenerated, do you
mean that the born-again persons are vile sinners? If you mean that
the vile persons are
unregenerated, so you now agree that God is influencing unregenerated
persons to trust Jesus,
that is before regeneration occurs. The vile unregenerated sinner
can repent and believe.
10. Since you believe that God is the efficient cause
of Adam's disobedience, who
master-minded or authored
the sin of Adam, God or the Devil?
11. My #14 question is, "Do you believe that the Holy Spirit
can make an influence in the decision
or will of the unregenerated
to repent and believe before regenerating him?" Your answer is
a positive YES.
Since your answer is yes, then you believe that the unregenerated or
spiritually dead under
the influence of the Spirit can repent and believe in Jesus before
regeneration.
Praise God you are no longer a true Calvinist. You have changed
your
position and followed
the right order of sequence :
-- Spirit's call and
conviction through hearing God's word,
Repentance, Faith, then Regeneration.
12. In your answer to my #14 question, you already agreed
that the Holy Spirit can make an
influence in the decision
and will of the unregenerated to repent and believe before
regeneration, however, you
are again changing your position and implying that a person
can't have the will to believe
in Christ before regeneration. Do you mean that the
Spirit cannot influence
the will of the spiritually dead to believe in Christ before
regeneration?
13. You did not answer my #16 question and you tried
to reform my question in order for
you to avoid answering
it. Your answer in #16 does not satisfy my question. I'll restate
my question so that
it will be clear: When does the Spirit make the call to repentance and
salvation, before
regeneration or after?
14. Again you did not answer my no. 17 question and
then you made an excuse by saying,
"It is none of our
business to determine the Holy Spirit in regeneration." The reason
why
I am asking
this question is because you're the first one who sent me a material,
touching
the issue on
intellect, emotion, and will by W.Best. Now you are unwilling to answer
my
question on
that matter. My no. 17 question is: Must the intellect of the unsaved
person be regenerated
first, then his emotions, afterward, his will in order for him to make
a
decision to
repent and believe? Or the intellect, emotion, and will be regenerated
at the
same time?
15. Another way of avoiding my question is saying
that it is irrelevant. That's your answer
in my #18 question.
You haven't really answered my question. The reason I am
asking this, you
have sent me a material dealing on this matter -- intellect, emotion,
and will by W. Best.
You have no answers to my nos. 18,19,20,21, and 22 questions.
It's all for now. God bless you!
Bro. Edwin Jardinel