FREE WILL CHALLENGE

If you believe that everyone has the "free will" to believe in YAHSHUA IMMANUEL YAHWEH the Mashiyach (Jesus Christ) or to not believe in Him, please take this challenge and e-mail the answers -- ilovetohunt86@yahoo.com

1. Find just one passage that clearly states man has free will to believe in YAHSHUA or not. The words "free will" must be in the passage.

2. Find just one passage that uses the word free or will in relation to believing in YAHSHUA.

3. Since the Bible clearly teaches that everyone is conceived in sin and born in sin (Ps. 51.5) and spiritually dead in sin (Eph. 2.1), please explain -- using Scripture only -- how a spiritually dead person can make a decision to believe in YAHSHUA. If you cannot explain this using Scripture your explanation is just your personal opinion.

4. Find a passage that clearly states that the decision by YAHWEH Elohim to save a person (election) is based on what that person will do when he is presented the Gospel. Compare those passages with these (John 6.44,65,70; 13.18; 15.16; Rom. 9.15,16,18,21-23; 11.7; Eph. 1.5,11; 2 Tim. 2.10; 2 Peter 1.10; 3.9) and explain why they do not contradict each other.

5. Find a passage that clearly states that YAHSHUA shed His blood for everyone who has ever lived or will live (unlimited atonement). Compare those passages with these (Acts 20.28; I Peter 1.18,19; Rev. 1.5; 5.9) and explain why they do not contradict each other.

6. Find a passage that clearly states that a person can resist the grace of YAHWEH Elohim (irresistible grace). Compare those passages with these (Jer. 1.5; John 6.44,65; Acts 9.1-16; Gal. 1.15,16) and explain why they do not contradict each other.

7. Find a passage that clearly states that a person who is truly born from above can forfeit his salvation. Compare those passages with these -- John 3.16; 5.24; 6.44,47,51,54; 10.27-29; Rom. 6.23; I John 5.10-13 -- and explain why they do not contradict each other.

8. Explain why I Timothy 2.4 says that YAHWEH desires all "kinds" of men to be saved -- not everyone who will ever live.  The context demands the former -- NOT the latter.  Did Paul command us to pray for "all men" -- everyone on the planet or did he command us to pray for all "kinds" of men?  Is  YAHSHUA the ransom for everyone who will ever live or is He the ransom for all "kinds" of men? 

9.  Explain how YAHSHUA could be the ransom for everyone (I Tim. 2.6) and the propitiation for the whole world (I John 2.2) but only justify many (Is. 53.11) and bear the sin of many (Is. 53.12).  Isn't YAHSHUA the propitiation for all Adamkind -- NOT for everyone who will ever live?  Didn't YAHSHUA die for all Adamkind (world -- John 3.16) and not for everyone who will ever live?

10. Isn't it painfully clear that the doctrine of free will is based on a few verses that are taken out of context (I Tim. 2.4,6; I Peter 3.9; I John 2.2) that do not agree with dozens of verses that emphatically declare that YAHWEH Elohim do all the choosing?