An apologist's shallow game

Argued into the faith is not the same as regeneration by the word and the Spirit.

Sah'eel heard the call, but it remained external. It never was internal. It was surface and intellectual. An apologist's shallow game.

"I left Islam because I studied Muhammad's life. I accepted the Gospel because I studied Jesus' life."

On your terms. The Devil and God each made their pitch, and you intellectually decided to throw in with God.

All Christians come from the darkness to the light. It's not unusual to be in bondage to Satan's Kingdom when we hear the call. That call, though, is made effectual by the Holy Spirit, not our mental faculties or our ability to weigh good and evil.

It's not surprising Sah'eel did not like Calvinism.

Sah'eel is not in hell. It doesn't work that way. You have to be judged to hell at the Great White Throne Judgment. Sah'eel can still be regenerated by the word and the Spirit, because God acts from eternity, and the Holy Spirit can regenerate at any point in the timeline of a human being. That is getting into higher aspects of time which the Bible pulls back from doing because it explodes the narrative. Sah'eel's problem is he is empty in his core. He needs to develop in an essential way. He can do this. Suffering is a great gift towards this happening. (Note: in this paragraph I am not speaking of universalism or second-chance-ism. I'm speaking of recurrence, which is not reincarnation. Same life, dead in sin, over and over, until regeneration, or the harvest.)