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141 | Whats up with Judgement, calvinists plz? | Rom 9:21 | Lionstrong | 61453 | ||
Hi John, I ran into the same problem when I came on the Forum (not that I'm totally blameless either). It really got me bent out of shape. But, I don't think there's anything you can do about it, John. Stay within the guidelines of the Forum, and make your post. This is a great place to be. Evidenced by the long threads, these subjects are of interest to many in the Forum, and, I think, can be profitable to the participants. So keep your cool and be quick to hear, slow to speak [type] and slow to anger, for the anger of man does not achieve the righteousness of God (James 1:19,20), and, "Let your gentle spirit be known to all men. The Lord is near." Phil 4:5 Peace, |
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142 | Light and Good Works | Matt 5:16 | Lionstrong | 61327 | ||
Hello Firedup! I'm sure there are many passage in Scripture that speak of our life in Christ as being illuminating. One passage that comes to mind is Phil 2:14-16: "Do all things without grumbling or disputing; that you may prove yourselves to be blameless and innocent, children of God above reproach in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you appear as lights in the world, holding fast the word of life, so that in the day of Christ I may have cause to glory because I did not run in vain nor toil in vain. But you'll notice that even in this context the gospel ("word of life") is included. So, while "light" sometimes refers to "life," in careful Bible study you must see what a word means in the passage in which it is used. So, in the context of Matt 5, it is God's people who have the gospel light. To the extent that we have the gospel light, we ARE the light of the world. We are to tell men the gospel that they may see our good works for what they really are, that is, wrought in God, not in us, that the Father may be glorified. (John 3:21) Somewhere in your Christian life you'll come across the concept of word and deed. You can't have one without the other. Good works without the gospel still leaves men lost. Good News without good deeds is hypocrisy. Peace, |
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143 | How can anyone be saved? | 1 Cor 2:14 | Lionstrong | 61308 | ||
Hi John, You need not answer this, but by freedom I meant that no external force hindered, limited or coerced my choice. In that sense I was free. My choices were limit only by internal factors, in this case, my insufficient funds. This I likened to fallen man. It is not God, man, Satan, what he ate for breakfast or any other external force that causes a man to reject Christ. In this sense he his free. The cause is his own insufficient moral capital. Peace, |
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144 | How can anyone be saved? | 1 Cor 2:14 | Lionstrong | 61301 | ||
Jude 1:3 Beloved, while I was making every effort to write you about our common salvation, I felt the necessity to write to you appealing that you contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all handed down to the saints. Jude 1:4 For certain persons have crept in unnoticed, those who were long beforehand marked out for this condemnation, ungodly persons who turn the grace of our God into licentiousness and deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ. Hello John, While I certainly don't accuse our Arminian brethren of being enemies of the Cross of Christ, I think most of our struggles with what the Bible does or does not teach comes from "in the house," not from the outside, as the above passage seems to suggest. The sovereignty of God in salvation will be a continuing (and important!) topic of discussion and debate and Bible study on the forum, just as there will always be trivial questions about weather the sons of God are angels. So keep defending the doctrines of grace. I'm not saying that you haven't or won't make any mistakes along the way, but I believe you are within the Forum guide lines. Those who hate sovereign grace or who are simply tired of the subject need not post any comments. This is the proper place to discuss "thus saith the Lord." Peace, |
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145 | How can anyone be saved? | 1 Cor 2:14 | Lionstrong | 61180 | ||
Hi Ed! Your view of the effects of sin on the will of man does not do justice to the biblical data. It’s not that man needs some assistance in choosing Christ, such that the grace he needs from God is to be made aware of his sin, his need for salvation, and a chance to reject it. The biblical picture is that sin has made man, morally speaking, dead--dry bone dead! (Eph 2, Ezek 37) He cannot make ANY moral choices that are pleasing to God (Rom 8). This means that he cannot make the moral choice of faith in Christ. The grace needed by fallen man dead in sin in order to choose Christ is to be made alive! (Eph 2) The grace needed to come to Christ is not to be made aware, but to be drawn to Him (Jn 6), otherwise fallen man WILL not come. The grace needed to enter the Kingdom is not a chance to reject it, but to be born again, something which only the Spirit of God can accomplish (Jn 3). Peace, |
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146 | How can anyone be saved? | 1 Cor 2:14 | Lionstrong | 61176 | ||
May I also add that this discussion of free will seems to be based on the notion that man's will is the basis of his accountability. There is no Scriptural basis for this idea. Whereas there is support that responsibility is based on knowledge. As I wrote to Ed: One thing my freewilling brothers in Christ have to understand is that responsibility, and hence the judgment, is not based on volition, but on knowledge. Rom 1:21-24, "For even though they knew God, they did not honor Him as God or give thanks.... Therefore God gave them over..." Luke 12:47,48 "And that slave who knew his master's will and did not get ready or act in accord with his will, will receive many lashes, but the one who did not know it, and committed deeds worthy of a flogging, will receive but few. From everyone who has been given much, much will be required; and to whom they entrusted much, of him they will ask all the more." As the image of God we are rational and have innate knowledge, that is, knowledge not learned by experience, but by virtue of being the image of God. (Gen. 1; Rom 2) We knowingly transgress or fail to conform to God's law. Animals cannot sin because they have no rational knowledge even if they have wills. Peace, |
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147 | How can anyone be saved? | 1 Cor 2:14 | Lionstrong | 61101 | ||
Hi Hank! If I may take a stab at your question: I’m free to take a privately charted luxury liner around the world, but my small financial reserves makes me unable to do so. Fallen man’s moral capital is less than small; it is non-existent! He is morally bankrupt! While free, he has no moral capital to invest a faith commitment in Christ. This is a financial analogy of the effects of sin in man. Of course, we usually use Paul’s biological analogy. He says that we were morally dead in sin (Eph 2), incapable of doing anything to please God (Rom 8), including believing in His Son. Peace in the Lamb, |
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148 | Light and Good Works | Matt 5:16 | Lionstrong | 61018 | ||
Hi Firedup, and welcome to the Forum! I agree that moral excellence in very important. Christ saved us to be holy people of good works. And there are other important truths in God's word. The importance of these truths are not what we are concerned with in this passage, but with the meaning of the term "light" in this context. Let your light shine that your good works may be seen. So the light is not the good deeds of our life. It is the good deeds of our life that Christ wants the light to shine on. It is the gospel that enlightens men to see our good deeds aright, that is, as the product of God's grace and not anything in us. Natural man has ingrained in his mind that it is our good works that save us, that make us acceptable to God. Therefore it is imperative that men see our good works as they really are, in "light” of the gospel. The gospel teaches that it is, "by grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God; not as a result of works, that no one should boast. For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them." (Eph 2:8-10) The good works are not in us or from us, and the gospel light will help men see this and glorify the Father and not us. If the good works are not seen in the gosple light, men will glorify us for our good works and not the Father. If light in this passage means life or good works then, (1) it makes the words "good works" in the passage redundant, (2) it ignores the meaning of light as knowledge as used in other passages of Scripture. (3) it ignores the illuminating analogy of knowledge, and (4) it ignores the fact that men already see (visually) our good works, but they don't see (understand) our good works. 2 Tim. 1:10, “but now has been revealed by the appearing of our Savior Christ Jesus, who abolished death, and brought life and immortality to light through the gospel,” Peace, P.S. I'm curious; how did you come upon this post, since it is not a recent entry, and this is your first post? |
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149 | How can anyone be saved? | 1 Cor 2:14 | Lionstrong | 60927 | ||
Hi Ed, 2 Cor 5:10, "For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each one may be recompensed for his deeds in the body, according to what he has done, whether good or bad." This is the purpose of judgment. One thing my freewilling brothers in Christ have to understand is that responsibility, and hence the judgment, is not based on volition, but on knowledge. Rom 1:21-24, "For even though they knew God, they did not honor Him as God or give thanks.... Therefore God gave them over..." Luke 12:47,48 "And that slave who knew his master's will and did not get ready or act in accord with his will, will receive many lashes, but the one who did not know it, and committed deeds worthy of a flogging, will receive but few. From everyone who has been given much, much will be required; and to whom they entrusted much, of him they will ask all the more." As the image of God we are rational and have innate knowledge, that is, knowledge not learned by experience, but by virtue of being the image of God. (Gen. 1; Rom 2) We knowingly transgress or fail to conform to God's law. Animals cannot sin because they have no rational knowledge even if they have wills. Another thing believers need to understand is the federal headship of Adam (Rom 5). He is the head and representative of the human race descended from him by natural generation. When our head fell, we all fell. When he became a sinner, we all did. When he sinned, we sinned in him. In Adam all die. (1 Cor 15:22, "For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ all will be made alive.") Christ is the head of redeemed humanity, and what he is and did counts for them. "Man cannot do anything about that sin unless God so moves, then when God does so move man has to accept Jesus and be forgiven of that sin." This is basically the same question Paul has his reader ask: Rom 9:19-24, "You will say to me then, "Why does He still find fault? For who resists His will?" On the contrary, who are you, O man, who answers back to God? The thing molded will not say to the molder, "Why did you make me like this," will it? Or does not the potter have a right over the clay, to make from the same lump one vessel for honorable use and another for common use? What if God, although willing to demonstrate His wrath and to make His power known, endured with much patience vessels of wrath prepared for destruction? And He did so to make known the riches of His glory upon vessels of mercy, which He prepared beforehand for glory, even us, whom He also called, not from among Jews only, but also from among Gentiles." How can a sinner believe, unless God, by His Spirit, changes his heart? Peace, |
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150 | How can anyone be saved? | 1 Cor 2:14 | Lionstrong | 60913 | ||
Hi Ed, 1. Yes. 2. No (neither can a save one.) 3. Don't understand question. Please rephrase. 4. No. Peace, |
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151 | How can anyone be saved? | 1 Cor 2:14 | Lionstrong | 60891 | ||
Hi Ray, You say, "the GOAL in our instruction and witnessing should be that the person would FEEL [my caps] the love of God." And you believe that God wants believers to FEEL loved. Yet you provide no scriptural support for these sentiments. You quote an excellent verse where Paul says the goal of our instruction is love, then you ignore it and say that the goal is to FEEL love. Paul's is practical; yours is emotional. I'll take Paul's. Peace, From the hip |
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152 | How can anyone be saved? | 1 Cor 2:14 | Lionstrong | 60834 | ||
Hi Ray! Have I misunderstood you or did you not write, "a person has to FEEL loved by God BEFORE he can put his trust in Him and believe.... "[my caps]? Most of the Scripture you gave had to do with one AFTER he believes. None of the Scripture you presented had to do with how the person felt about God's love BEFORE they believed. Nor did they make how one felt a necessity for faith. Even what you presented concerning Paul's conversion had to do with what he realized after he was saved from the wrath of God, not what his emotional (how he felt) state was before he was saved. I liked all the Scripture you gave. It was a good try, but none of it supported your position that a person HAS to feel loved by God before he can put his trust in Him and believe. The closest thing to any psychological requirement prior to faith that I see in Scripture is that we UNDERSTAND the Gospel (Rom 10:13-17) and repent (Mark 1:15). Emotion is not a prerequisite to faith. Generally, emotion follows faith. 1 Thess 1:6, "You also became imitators of us and of the Lord, having received the word in much tribulation with the joy of the Holy Spirit..." Acts 2:41 So then, those who had [gladly, KJV(see Greek)] received his word were baptized; and that day there were added about three thousand souls. Peace, |
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153 | How can anyone be saved? | 1 Cor 2:14 | Lionstrong | 60776 | ||
Hi Ray, What's your scriptural support for your belief? I think Paul didn't feel any warm fuzzies while he was on his was to Damascus and the Lord knocked him on his behind! Concerning the psychology of salvation, the Scripture has little or nothing to say about our emotional state at the time we come to believe the Gospel. I find no scriptural support that we have to feel loved by God before we believe. One of God's purposes, however, is that we come to KNOW the love of Christ in all its dimensions once we are saved. (Eph 3:18,19) Peace, |
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154 | How can anyone be saved? | 1 Cor 2:14 | Lionstrong | 60772 | ||
Hi John, I simply gave a biblical answer to your question, how can anyone be saved. Your question was NOT how can anyone believe. Faith is the gift of God on the basis of his sovereign grace. (Eph 2, Rom 9) The dead stony hearts we inherit by birth cannot believe God. Only God alone can give us a heart of flesh willing and able to believe him. (Ezek 36:26) Peace, |
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155 | Is Creation a Scientific Fact? | Heb 11:3 | Lionstrong | 60542 | ||
Thanks for you kind response, Fly. Is there a web site for this Creation Science group? In the Scripture we have information about the creation of the heavens and the earth that we can study. We're told who did it; how long it took, and the order in which things were commanded into existence. But concerning the Big Bang, what's to study? It seems to me to be pure speculation about a speculation of our origin. Pure speculation does not fit into the definition of what science is. So, is it still science when it's pure speculation? If so, what is science? Peace, |
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156 | Is Creation a Scientific Fact? | Heb 11:3 | Lionstrong | 60344 | ||
Greetings Fly! Actually these elements of which you speak weren't created out of nothing. They were formed by the force of the atomic blast from other elements surrounding the blast. True out of nothing creation is recorded in Gen 1. All there was was God. Space, matter and time came into being at the command of the Triune God of the Bible. It is impossible for science to come to any conclusions about the Gen 1 creation. This is so NOT because science can be rational. Rationality has nothing to do with it. The creation of Gen 1 is simply something that science cannot study. Science can only study something that is there and continues to exist. Creation, however, was a one time occurrance. The very nature of science depends on repitition. Therefore creation is outside the scope of science. Information about creation cannot come to be known by scientific investigation. It can only be know by revelation, which the God of the Bible has been pleased to give us. Peace, |
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157 | Is Creation a Scientific Fact? | Heb 11:3 | Lionstrong | 59891 | ||
Hi Searcher, I checked out the next two websites, but I didn't see anything having to do with the scientific proof for creation. Maybe I didn't look carefully enough. Peace, |
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158 | Scientific Cosmology vs. bible teaching. | Bible general Archive 1 | Lionstrong | 59839 | ||
Great stuff, Emmaus! I GOTTA read that guy! Peace, |
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159 | Is Creation a Scientific Fact? | Heb 11:3 | Lionstrong | 59838 | ||
Correct llesman! And welcome to the Studybible Forum! Something must be, and what was, was the Eternal God. By the word of his mouth he created something out of nothing. God did not take something to make the heavens and the earth. He simply commanded them into existance. God is the only eternal. Space, energy, matter are not eternal. They were created. Heb 11:3 "...so that what is seen was not made out of things which are visible." Ps 33:6,9 By the word of the LORD the heavens were made, And by the breath of His mouth all their host.... For He spoke, and it was done; He commanded, and it stood fast. |
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160 | Is Creation a Scientific Fact? | Heb 11:3 | Lionstrong | 59837 | ||
Greetings Searcher! Read your first web site reference. Dr. Humphreys does not claim give a scientific proof for creation, although the article is titled in that way. What he claims to give is a high probability for creation. Will read the other refs as I have time. By scientific I mean conclusions that are reached by modern scientific experimentation and which can be expressed in mathematical formulation. Concerning understanding that the worlds were prepared by the word of God (Heb 11:3), modern science is totally incapable of comming to such a conclusion. We can understand this only by believing what God has revealed about creation. Peace, |
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