delvanis,

This will be my last attempt to ask you to interact with all that I have offered to you in my previous replies, which you seem to have chosen to totally ignore. <img src="/forum/images/graemlins/scratch1.gif" alt="" /> Here, I will only deal with one of your objections as the others have dealt what followed:

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You opined:
"A person thus regenerated will most certainly be saved"

REPLY-The difficulty with making such a broad statement such as this is twofold. 1.That all who believe the gospel, but reject following Christ will be saved anyway.How many hundreds of people do believe, but don't really commit themselves to Christ in the long run? Will one maintain then that these folks are saved? I think not.
The answer to this objection is once again a proper and biblical understanding of the fallen nature of man. If man is as "dead" as the Bible says he is, then of necessity there must be a radical transformation of his soul/nature so as to enable him to have any interest whatsoever in God and salvation, which comes by repentance and faith in Christ. This is where "regeneration" applies. Unless man is born again, he will never desire thus have no ability to repent and believe, in the true sense of the word. After, the Holy Spirit regenerates the soul, then the sinner most naturally repents and believes on Christ. This doctrine is known as "Irresistible Grace".

Read about it here:

Irresistible Grace, by John Murray
Efficacious Grace, by Loraine Boettner

Re: Free-will, read these:

Myth of Free-will, by Walter Chantry
God's Sovereignty and the Human Will, by A.W. Pink
Arminianism: The Golden Idol of Free-will, by Augustus Toplady
The Choice . . . Man's or God's?, by Peter Eldersveld
There are Only Two Religions in the World, by John G. Reisinger

Re: Regeneration

The Nature, Causes and Means of Regeneration, by John Owen
Regeneration, or the New Birth, by A.W. Pink
Regeneration and Conversion, by Samuel Hopkins

General:

Arminian Errors, by William MacLean
Arminianism Exposed, by Mar Herzer
An Antidote to Arminianism, by Christopher Ness
Truth and Error, by Horatius Bonar
The Reformed Faith and Arminianism, by John Murray

In His grace,

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simul iustus et peccator

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