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Only.me80 #7: MacArthur 3 ("will"/author/ESV)

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I was planning on publishing posts every other week for awhile, but I think I'll only need to do that occasionally.  So here is footnote #3 on John MacArthur's sermon about Limited Atonement that I quoted in  part 4 .   Apparently, it's gonna take quite a long time to get through all my footnotes, something I didn't plan on when I first started writing this series which was  inspired by a comment from a Calvinist reader called Only.me80 (see  part 1 ) .  Yes, this whole long series sprang from that short little comment.  And  here is  part 2 ...   part 3 ...  part 5 ... and part 6 .   *3  Notice the phrasing MacArthur used:  " the sinner cannot will to believe on his own, since he can only believe if God enables him to believe."   It's not just "cannot believe," but  "cannot will to believe."    And he used this kind of phrasing earlier too:  "if they'll only will to believe."...