reiterate wrote:
For your edification;
I see you still prefer the Liberal Anglicans for your personal exegesis of Scripture. Even though Westcott and Hort would be of the same ilk as your good buddy Billy Graham in their favoring bits of popish junk

John UK wrote:
No, that is not possible, because the Spirit does not indwell until the sinner exercises faith.

20-20 Vision wrote:
"Warning"
"Faith in the living God and his Son Jesus Christ is always the result of the new birth, and can never exist except in the regenerate. Whoever has faith is a saved man."
C.H. Spurgeon from His sermon Faith and Regeneration ....

Read your first post that gave rise to this exchange. You said faith was a faculty! And that this was a new faculty not possessed by someone who is unconverted.

What is faith? It is not a faculty, it is trust i.e. the actions of faculties already possessed. The problem is that the faculties already possessed are averse to the things of God, and so the gift of faith, is the work of the Holy Spirit in regeneration to remove the enmity to God, to break the bondage to sin and to free, enable and determine the will to freely choose Christ with the same faculties that we already possessed!

20-20 Vision wrote:
"Warning"
NO!! YOU are not Calvinist in your theology. ...

Read the WCF on effectual calling:

All those whom God hath predestinated unto life, and those only, he is pleased, in his appointed and accepted time, effectually to call, by his Word and Spirit, out of that state of sin and death in which they are by nature, to grace and salvation by Jesus Christ: enlightening their minds, spiritually and savingly, to understand the things of God, taking away their heart of stone, and giving unto them an heart of flesh; ***renewing their wills, and by his almighty power determining them to that which is good; and effectually drawing them to Jesus Christ; yet so as they come most freely, being made willing by his grace."***

What does it mean to renew the will?

Section on Freewill:

IV. When God converts a sinner and translates him into the state of grace, ****he freeth him from his natural bondage under sin, and, by his grace alone, enables him freely to will and to do that which is spiritually good ***...

20-20 Vision wrote:
Bible reads
Eph 2:8 "For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:
9 Not of works, lest any man should boast."
Arminian/synergist Bible reads
8 For by grace are ye saved through *(Your own human faculty of)* faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:
9 Not of works, lest any man should boast.
Read it folks and please see how rediculous it is to ascribe this necessary faith, essential faculty, to a sinner in his natural state.

Faith is not a faculty! It is the combined activity of the human faculties of mind, emotions and will which together rest, or trust in God's salvation. And trust is definitely an action of faculties which we already possess. The idea behind faith being a gift is that God by the Holy Spirit frees our faculties which are bound to sin, Satan and the world, so that we can come freely to rest in Him.