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Originally Posted by acerrak

galations 5 is fruit of the Spirit, which can be produced by anyone who God lives in whether they spoke in tounges or not.

again people do not seek God, God seeks them, and you couldnt even begin to acknowledge Jesus as your saviour unless the Spirit of the Lord was in you.

I disagree with reformed theology for the most part.

People seek God because God by his grace draws them to himself and leads them to repentance but he doesn't make them repent. God gives every man a measure of faith so that when presented with the gospel, the word of God, we can either say "yes" or "no". We can acknowledge Jesus as Lord just as they those who converted to Christ in the book of Acts did BEFORE they were filled with the Spirit of God.


As for 1 Cor 12:3 Wherefore I give you to understand, that no man speaking by the Spirit of God calleth Jesus accursed: and that no man can say that Jesus is the Lord, but by the Holy Ghost

Paul is saying that it is only by the Spirit of God that someone can say in the prophetic that Jesus is the Lord and cannot call Jesus accursed. So if someone does say that Jesus is not Lord or that Jesus is accursed then you know that that person is not speaking by the Spirit of God. Paul is teaching this in the context of spiritual gifts and not salvation.