Let's preach, unsafe, that salvation's not about human choice.
No Jaebius I will never preach that --ever and never ------Period
Lets preach the Scripture that says -----Truth --Free will to choose and a condition
Romans 10:9-10
9 because
if you acknowledge
and confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord [recognizing His power, authority, and majesty as God], and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.
10 For with the heart a person believes [in Christ as Savior] resulting in his justification [that is, being made righteous—being freed of the guilt of sin and made acceptable to God]; and with the mouth he acknowledges
and confesses [his faith openly], resulting in
and confirming [his] salvation.
If death came before sin, the cross's emptied of meaning
It didn't there was no sin and no death in the Garden -----
till the serpent arrived and deceived Eve and Eve talked her Adam into rebelling against God by eating the forbidden fruit ------sin entered and God in His Sovereignty said ------The wages of sin is death -----God could have Physically killed both of them and the serpent right then ---
But in His Sovereign Mercy --he allowed them to live -----but gave them judgment before kicking them from the garden
Notice Paul's stress in Rom 1:16. It's "God’s power!"
Here you go taking one word out of a whole piece of scripture and twisting it to suit your own twisted Theology ----
This is your scripture in Context ---19 --
gives you Faith is your way to righteousness ----
The Power is in the Gospel to inbirth the Faith so you can be saved
Nice how you left out all of the scripture of verse 16 ---and 17----and you can't separate verses 16 and 17 there Jaebius as they go together ---
16 For I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God that brings salvation to everyone who believes: first to the Jew, then to the Gentile.
17
For in the gospel the righteousness of God is revealed—a righteousness that is by faith from first to last,[e] just as it is written: “The righteous will live by faith.
Paul’s Longing to Visit Rome
8 First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you, because your faith is being reported all over the world. 9 God, whom I serve in my spirit in preaching the gospel of his Son, is my witness how constantly I remember you 10 in my prayers at all times; and I pray that now at last by God’s will the way may be opened for me to come to you.
11 I long to see you so that I may impart to you some spiritual gift to make you strong— 12 that is, that you and I may be mutually encouraged by each other’s faith. 13 I do not want you to be unaware, brothers and sisters,[
d] that I planned many times to come to you (but have been prevented from doing so until now) in order that I might have a harvest among you, just as I have had among the other Gentiles.
14 I am obligated both to Greeks and non-Greeks, both to the wise and the foolish. 15 That is why I am so eager to preach the gospel also to you who are in Rome.
16 For I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God that brings salvation to everyone who believes: ---Choice here Jaebius -------first to the Jew, then to the Gentile.
17 For in the gospel the righteousness of God is revealed—a righteousness that is by faith from first to last,[e] just as it is written: “The righteous will live by faith.”[f]
So here is your other scripture John 15 :19 ---
and here again you are taking a piece of Scripture out of Context and have no spiritual understand of it but using it and twisting it to suit your Calvinism theology ----so you can say ---I"M RIGHT ------
So this scripture is Jesus speaking ---we are still in the Old Testament law here Jaebius and Jesus picks who His Father picks for Him ---according to Scripture ===
Amplified Bible---John 5
So Jesus answered them by saying, “I assure you
and most solemnly say to you,
the Son can do nothing of Himself [of His own accord], unless it is something He sees the Father doing; for whatever things the Father does, the Son [in His turn] also does in the same way.
So
He does and picks who His Father tells him to pick as He was looking for people to follow Him to be trained for His Discipleship -----
So God the Father in His Sovereignty ---
again picks who He wants to be His Disciples to start the Church ---
--again it pertains to God's Sovereign Plan -of starting His Church ----so God did pick these men to follow Jesus and be trained -----
Sin is still only covered by animal sacrifices Here for 1 year here ----again at this point these men still have their sin nature ----
no indwelling of the Holy spirit here yet ----till Jesus dies and is resurrected
So
This is not saying that after Jesus sheds His Blood to cover sin for all time and dies and is resurrected
that God's sovereignty doesn't give us free choice to choose to reject Jesus or accept Jesus ------
this is where God limits His own Sovereign power ----
He gave the angels free choice and He gave His Creation Free choice
Lucifer ---used his free will to choose to rebel against God and took other angels with him in their free choice ---and we have been given that same free will to chose to accept or reject salvation -----
The OT saints, unsafe, were perfected in Christ, just as we are.
You wish --but your wrong -----in that theory ----there were Saints but were definitely not perfected --in Spirit ----at the time they died ---they were deemed Righteous by Faith for the Obedience ------but their Spirit was not Changed ----your Human Spirit cannot get you into Heaven ---it has to be the Holy Spirit indwelling in you -----and that was not happening at that time ----
The Disciples received the indwelling of the Holy Spirit in Acts in the upper room and at Pentecost were filled with the Holy Spirit -----so their Spirits were Changed and they became Heaven bound upon their Death ----
Ya I know what time it is in your Country ----Google tells me that -----I am not anxious for your reply there Jaebius I know you will reply when it is day time in your country ---just giving you much to reply to when it is daytime there and your awake to reply -----