Let me say this in respect to the alleged omnipotence of God : There is one exception, He cannot create faith. He can provide a basis and create circumstances to extract and test faith but He cannot create the one thing He does not know : If a person will use their freedom to do otherwise to choose to trust Him by faith.
At the risk of sounding harsh, this is heresy. Faith comes from God. Otherwise no one would ever get saved.
Romans 3:11 "There is none that understandeth; there is none that seeketh after God." This clearly says that man in his natural, sinful state does not seek to know God, thus cannot make a choice to trust Him. And even if a man could choose Christ, is not that choice an action, i.e. a work?
Galatians 2:16 "Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law: for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified."
But works cannot get us into heaven. It must be faith. But where does that faith come from if it cannot come from us? This verse answers that, too. "... that we might be justified by the faith
of Christ," So it is God who gives faith unto salvation to those He chooses to become saved.
What do you think about the doctrine of foreknowledge, predestination, and election?
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