1 John 2:2 has been addressed many, many times. You isolate a sentence and thus you fail to grasp what John is saying in the whole of his letter. Your hermeneutics are bad. We have shown you this. You are showing us your ignorance.
Romans 3 is such a wonderful treatise on justification by faith alone for the believer. Salvation has already taken place by God's grace and justification is next in line. Thanks for reminding all believers about what God has done for them in giving them the gift of faith.
You wondered what payment still being required I was referring to. So since you obviously do not know what payment we are talking about, I was confirming you do, in fact, adhere to PSA?
They cannot believe unless God makes them alive to the gospel. When God calls their name, they will believe and have faith.
We say "believe in the Lord Jesus Christ" and many/most look at us as fools. Those whom God calls out, look at us and say, "I believe" precisely because God just made them alive and gave them faith to believe.
It is a profound mystery how the Holy Spirit does this, but it is a glorious mystery. When you hear Jesus call you, you know it's the voice of your Shepherd.
And that shows a major flaw in calvinism. You
can not even know if you are saved as you had nothing to do with being saved. You did not even believe, God had to give you faith and you just have to hope that it was real. It could all be just wishful thinking on your part.
It would be interesting to hear you explain the gospel to your loved ones. Do you tell them that odds are that God did not pick them out and that they are bound for hell and there is nothing they can do about it.
How do you explain Joh 3:14-18 or Eph 1:13 or Rom 10:13?
So your saying that you
are saved by God before you actually believe in God. But I was told that no calvinist believes that, so does that mean your not a calvinist?