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Bart Goddard
>adamst@no.spam wrote:
>>>>if it's not faith alone and it's not faith+works, then
>>>> what is it???
>>>
>>>Grace.
>>
>> Of course, this just pushes the debate back a bit - whether grace enables
>> or forces man to respond...
>
>A false alternative? Here's a fact: If you take any integer n,
>then you can find two different positive integers a and b such
>that n^a - n^b is a multiple of 10. Suppose you don't believe
>this fact. To set out to disprove me, you try a bunch of examples.
>You let n=2, and discover that 2^5-2 = 30. Then you try
>n=3 and discover 3^6 - 3^2 = 720. You keep trying examples.
>You have your computer generate a zillion examples. Eventually
>you start to be convinced that this fact must be true, because
>you can't find a single counter-example.
>
>Were you "enabled" to believe the fact? I don't think so,
>since there has been no change in your abilities over the
>course of the experiment. You were just as able yesterday
>of believing the fact as you are today.
>
>Were you "forced" to believe the fact? Only if somehow
>inanimate numbers and computers have some hold over your
>will.
>
>I'd say, rather, that you were _convinced_ of the truth.
I think this is semantics. But, even so, does God's grace *always*
convince the recipient of the truth? Does God offer His Grace to
*all* men?
-Stephen
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