If you can't figure it out, there ther is no hope for you.

Put away your Calvinist's presuppositions.

If you reject the calling of the Holy Spirit of God to repent and believe the gospel, you will yet die in your sins.

God will not repent for you.

Just as stealing is an act of the will, so is not stealing. We are all born with a will and are free moral agents to use that will, either for good or for bad.

You believe that man has no ability to make any conscious choice on anything.

This is called total inability, we believe in total depravity. As long as you are able to breath, you have the God given ability to make a conscious choice. Granted, we are tainted with the sin nature. And for that reason the natural man does not arbitrarily seek after God, but when confronted with the gospel and the nature of the gospel, God calls all those who are of a willing and contrite heart to come to Christ. God called all men, everywhere to repent and believe the gospel. It is his divine will for all men to turn from their wickedness and come to the knowledge of the truth. He set the criteria by which that is to be done. There is no other way.

Actually they are very easy to understand and answer.

If salvation is the gift of God, how do we receive this gift, by faith or by works?

If faith is the gift of God, then how do we receive this gift, by salvation or by works?

"2] "faith" = πιστεωσ = Grammar - Genitive case. Sing.
It is not female gender as this would entail a different spelling in the Greek."

Care to cite your source of the word faith not being in the female gender.

How can faith be the gift of God. The word "faith" is in the female gender and the word "it" is neuter.

Makes you wonder why they don't bring people to the Savior. They rationalize away calling on the name of the Lord for salvation as if it not pertainent to salvation.

MBL, how many Calvinists would you estimate here that are not truly saved?

They have a form of godliness, but deny the power thereof.

They claim that you have to wait for God to give you the gifts of repentence anf faith after they have been regenerated in order for them to be able to believe. I have asked Arthur if he had ever received this gift. I am still waiting for the answer.

I have asked the Calvinist if it possible for one to enter the kingdom of heaven without ever believing the gospel. I just get the runaround.

If God commands all men everywhere to repent, then He knows man has the ability to do so. Man freely chooses to act on God's commands.

It is a part of human nature instilled in us from God when we were formed.

He called me and I answered the call to repent and believe the gospel.

I know it sounds like there are a lot of "I's" in the above, but God pardoned an old wretched sinner by his love and mercy when He was under no obligation to me whatsoever. In fact he would have been right and just to leave me to die lost and in sin because that is what I truly deserved. God's word has the convicting power to bring any lost to the saving knowledge of Christ. I could not grasp until the Holy Spirit led me to the place where I had to either receive God's free gift or spend eternity in Hell, lost forever.

This distinction between the passive and the active aspects of regeneration is necessitated, as we shall see, by the twofold method of representing the change in Scripture. In many passages the change is ascribed wholly to the power of God; the change is a change in the fundamental disposition of the soul. There is no use of means. In other passages we find truth referred to as an agency employed by the Holy Spirit, and the mind acts in view of this truth. . The distinction between these two aspects of regeneration seems to be intimated in Ephesians 2:5, 6 — “made us alive together with Christ” and “raised us up with him.” Lazarus must first be made alive, and in this he could not cooperate but he must also come forth from the tomb, and in this he could be active."

Where we aslo differ is the sequence and nature of regeneration.

We hold that regeneration and justification are two totally separate acts of God but take place simultaneously.

We hold that a sinner is convicted by the Holy Spirit of his sin nature and his miserable estate. The Holy Spirit convinces him of his need of salvation through the shed blood of Jesus Christ. This is divine illumination and not regeneration.

Regeneration is that act of God by which the governing disposition of the soul is made holy, and by which, through the truth as a means, the first holy exercise of this disposition is secured.

Is a sovereign God obligated to save anyone?

If you go to the airport and want to go to Paris but didn't have the money. If a man came to you and handed you a ticket already paid for. He has purchased and secured the ticket for you. All you have to do is receive it.

You don't have to clean the stalls to receive it, you don't have to give him a dime for it. In fact, he will even hand it to the ticket agent for you.

Universalism teaches that everybody is saved regardless if they believe on Jesus Christ or not. They do not believe in a literal Hell because there is no one going there.

The bible teaches that except ye repent, ye will all likewise perish. We also teach that "For by grace are ye saved through faith, it is a gift of God, not of works, lest any man should boast."

Calvinist, according to your logic, teach that if you are elect, you are saved. The exercise of faith unto salvation and believing the gospel message is not required.