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Results from: Answers On or After: Thu 12/31/70 Author: bjanko Ordered by Verse |
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21 | Can one who commits suicide be saved? | Mark 3:28 | bjanko | 216 | ||
Salvation comes through believing in Jesus. If you believe in Christ, but are brought to a point of despair where you killed yourself you would still be saved. This would not be the common course for a believer, but it could theoretically happen. | ||||||
22 | Can one who commits suicide be saved? | Mark 3:28 | bjanko | 217 | ||
P.S.... but just because you could still be saved does not mean it is acceptable to commit suicide. If you have suicidal feelings, you should seek counsel. The Lord wants to bless you in this life. | ||||||
23 | Can a believer lose his salvation? | Luke 8:13 | bjanko | 218 | ||
If one is truly saved, he cannot lose his salvation. Read these words of assurance: "But I said to you that you have seen Me, and yet do not believe. All that the Father gives Me will come to Me, and the one who comes to Me I will certainly not cast out. For I have come down from heaven, not to do My own will, but the will of Him who sent Me. This is the will of Him who sent Me, that of all that He has given Me I lose nothing, but raise it up on the last day." (John 6:36-39) |
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24 | Predetermined or Free Will | Luke 8:13 | bjanko | 456 | ||
You wrote: '1: Where does it say that Jesus is omnipotent? Jesus says in Mat 24:36 "No one knows about that day or hour, not even the angels in heaven nor the Son, but only the Father." If Jesus were omnipotent as you say, He would have known the day and hour.' My reply: You are confusing omniscience with omnipotence. What you are describing is omniscience -- having all knowledge. I was speaking of omnipotence -- having all power. If you study the doctrine of Christ in more depth, you will learn that Jesus was one Person (of the Trinity) with two natures, fully man and fully God. Being fully God, Jesus would be fully omnipotent and omniscience. The verse you quote is obviously Jesus speaking as fully man. |
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25 | Predetermined or Free Will | Luke 8:13 | bjanko | 459 | ||
You wrote: '2: God has predetermined that his plan of salvation will be carried out. This does not mean that he has predetermined who will and will not be saved.' My reply: That simply does not make any sense. How can the predetermined will of an all-powerful God NOT come to pass? You wrote: 'God wants everyone to be saved (If you need several versus to back this up, let me know). He provided the means for that to happen through the death and ressurection of Jesus. It is our choice whether to accept his Gift or not.' My reply: Eph. 2:1-2 "And you were dead in your trespasses and sins" How do the spiritually dead choose anything? When's the last time you have seen a corpse make a choice o do anything else for that matter? John 6:44 "No one can come to Me unless the Father who sent Me draws him." This is pretty explicit. Sure God desires that all be saved, but He did not PROVIDE so that all will be saved. Since all will not be saved, then if you say that God PROVIDED atonement for all, then you are saying that the atonement which God has provided has FAILED. But a failing God is NOT the God of the Bible! It makes more sense to understand that, while God desires all will be saved, He only PROVIDED atonement FOR HIS PEOPLE whom He has elected from eternity past. As for the numerous verses you quoted: it is not proper to pick and choose numerous verses which support your view while ignoring all the verses which do not support your view. You seem to be ignoring all the verses which speak of election and God's will from before eternity and the fact that God is the ONLY acting party in the regeneration of the soul. What about the verses I have quoted? You simply say things like, "but that doesn't necessarily mean thus and such".... but your responses are really no answer; you are begging the question. My answer to all your verses is that we certainly do choose God: AFTER He has regenerated us and given us the gift of salvation. But as the Bible explicitly and clearly says, we are DEAD in our trespasses and sins and NO ONE comes to Jesus UNLESS the Father draws him. |
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26 | Predetermined or Free Will | Luke 8:13 | bjanko | 460 | ||
You wrote: '3: To renounce your salvation would be to turn your back on God, to no longer believe or accept his Gift. To no longer follow the teachings of Christ. Granted, you could always say that person wasn't really saved then. But then what would you say would have happened to that person if they died prior to that drastic change?' My reply: Since they were never saved to begin with, then they would have gone to hell. You wrote: 'And if you say that the person must not have been chosen by God to be saved and was only fooling themselves when they truely believed in Christ and thought they were saved -- ' Me: That's not what I'm saying; that's what the Bible says. You cont'd: ' -- then can you say for sure that anyone is saved?' My reply: No. Of course not. How can I tell if you are saved or if someone else is saved? Am I God? It would be quite presumptuous for anyone to claim he could tell if someone is saved or not, don't you think? You wrote: 'Did Jesus die for everyone or just for a select few?' My reply: He obviously died for only a select few. In Romans 9, Paul calls them "the elect." If God HAD died for everybody, then everybody would be saved. Do you really think that people whom God has decided to save can resist His will? Do you put mere man on the same level as God? You wrote: 'I can show you several versus that show that He died for all, can you show one that says otherwise?' My reply: Although I have shown you several, you do not seem interested in what they say. Again, a mere smattering a verses (not versus) means nothing if you do not take the whole of Scripture into account in interpreting them. You wrote: 'Then if Jesus did die for all, how could there be some that God predetermined not to be save?' My reply: Indeed, you finally understand me. If Jesus died for all, then all would surely, without question, be saved, for Jesus' blood is in no way ineffectual. However, all are NOT saved; therefore, Jesus did NOT die for all, but only for His people, only for the elect. |
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27 | How do you then interpret the verses... | Luke 8:13 | bjanko | 461 | ||
The common trait of all the verses you quote is that they all say that the man who chooses Christ will be saved. BUT THEY NEVER SAY WHAT KIND OF MAN CHOOSES CHRIST! This is the case with all so-called "free will" verses. The verses supporting predestination, on the other hand, are very explicit: they all say that no man can choose God unless God enables them to; or they say that God has chosen certain people to respond to His call. Taking this in view, it is very consistent to conclude that God foreordains whom He will save; and when these people choose God, they will have everlasting life. But if you simply say that sinful people who despise God somehow, magically, choose God; then you are really saying that man is not thoroughly sinful, that the inclinations of his heart are not evil continually, and you still have no explanation for how a corrupt man could choose Christ and a way of life which is entirely against all the sinfulness within that sinful man. And you also have no explanation for all the verses which explicitly state that God has predestined a people to Himself. I suggest YOU read John 6:44 in context. In the midst of telling people how to be saved, Jesus makes the EXPLICIT point that they cannot do it on their own. They have not ears to hear. Only the elect, those few who are responding to Christ, are saved; and He makes it clear, properly giving glory to God, that the ones responding have been chosen and predestined by God -- in other words, they are not choosing on their own, but God Himself is drawing them. So, clearly, God's drawing precedes their choosing. In context, the point is clear that Jesus says ONLY the ones who are drawn will be saved; for indeed they are the only ones who are enabled to come to Christ. |
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28 | Fear of what? The cured man? | Luke 8:37 | bjanko | 151 | ||
They were probably afraid of this breach of the natural. An incredible miracle had taken place and the people, being faithless, feared because this indicated that power of God had visited them. The unmistakable presence of God always strikes fear in the hearts of unrepentant sinners. | ||||||
29 | healing the man who was born blind by Je | John | bjanko | 2085 | ||
The theme of John is to get the hearer/reader to believe in Jesus and be saved. Romans 10:14 says, "... How will they believe in Him whom they have not heard? ..." When we hear the gospel and believe it, we spiritually "see" that Jesus is the Savior. At the end of the passage in question, Jesus turns the idea of blindness right around on the Pharisees. John 9:40 Those of the Pharisees who were with Him heard these things and said to Him, "We are not blind too, are we?" John 9:41 Jesus said to them, "If you were blind, you would have no sin; but since you say, 'We see,' your sin remains. The man in the story starts out blind but ends up seeing... not just physical sight, but he "sees" that Jesus is the Christ. The Pharisees, while under the delusion that they have spiritual discernment (that they can "see") are really bilnd. The exalted Pharisees are humbled, i.e., shown they are blind; and the humble blind man is exalted, i.e., given the gift of faith (spirtual "sight"). In John 20:30-31, John tells us that these things were written so that we may believe that Jesus is the Christ and be saved. This is why Jesus did the miracle, "so that the works of God might be displayed in him," (v. 3) and so that we might believe that Jesus Christ is OUR savior; he makes us "see" the truth about this -- heals our spiritual blindness -- and thereby causes us to cross over from death to eternal life in Him. |
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30 | Abiding seems to be very important in sc | John 15:4 | bjanko | 2083 | ||
3306 menĂ´; a prim. vb.; to stay, abide, remain:--abide(16), abides(22), abiding(4), await(1), continue(4), continues(1), endures(3), enduring(1), lasting(2), lives(1), living(1), remain(20), remained(6), remaining(1), remains(8), stand(1), stay(11), stayed(11), staying(3), waiting(1). Keeping the words from this lexicon in mind, "abiding" means to STAY DEEPLY STUCK in Christ, rooted in Him at such a deep level that you are as a branch which grows out of a vine, so that your very life and existence find their sap and nourishment in Christ Himself and in no other. Admittedly, a broad interpretation on my part. : ) |
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31 | Do you have to be baptized to be saved? | Rom 6:3 | bjanko | 98 | ||
No, but rather you need to be saved first before you can be baptized. | ||||||
32 | Would you please give scripture evidence | 1 Cor 13:12 | bjanko | 265 | ||
I do not think any verses really address this. However, it is a reasonable assumption that our loved ones who are saved will be recognizable to us. We all have our same bodies, although they will be glorified. It is not a stretch to believe we will be able to recognize one another; but, frankly, I think we will be more interested in the recognition and worship of Christ. | ||||||
33 | Can women serve as elders in the church? | 1 Tim 3:1 | bjanko | 220 | ||
No. That is not proper. See the preceding chapter of the very book you quote. "But I do not allow a woman to teach or exercise authority over a man, but to remain quiet." (1 Tim 2:12) |
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34 | biblical or cultural? | 1 Tim 3:1 | bjanko | 11979 | ||
It's all biblical and applicable unless the Bible itself says or teaches that it's not. |
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35 | some more things to consider... | 1 Tim 3:1 | bjanko | 12125 | ||
Those OT examples are a demonstration of God's righteousness and will be performed on the last day. Additionally, God judged in Christ all the sins of his elect people. Those OT principles are still valid. But the problem is there is no Christian theocracy active now as there was in the land of Palestine back then. But when Christ returns, the theocracy will be restored and so will its judgments of those who are pagan, who rejected Christ, or are tares in the spiritual "kingdom" of today. |
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36 | Did Jesus die _only_ for the elect | 1 Tim 3:1 | bjanko | 13452 | ||
If Jesus died for all, then all would be saved. But all are not saved. Only some are saved: the elect. Those are the ones Jesus died for. To say otherwise is to say that Christ is not able to save, effectually, those whom He has chosen. To say otherwise is bring God down and to raise man's will up on a pedestal. |
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37 | Who Does God Draw? | 1 Tim 3:1 | bjanko | 13490 | ||
I don't see the discrepancy you are rerferring to in the passages. No part of the Bible contradicts another. You seem to have explained it yourself. |
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38 | Define term inerrancy and is it true? | 2 Tim 3:16 | bjanko | 2519 | ||
The doctrine of inerrancy of Scripture is the teaching that the Scripture is without error. The reason this is so is because the Bible is revelation from God, it is God's words. Since God is a God of truth and cannot lie or be in error, then neither can His words be false or errant. So, at the core, the doctrine of the inerrancy of Scripture is rooted in the fact that the Bible is from God Who Himself is unable to err. | ||||||
39 | Who wrote the letter to the Hebrews? | Hebrews | bjanko | 1096 | ||
I do not know the arguments. I have also heard that Mark might have possibly been the author. It is certainly a "heavenly" letter as are Paul's are, but it's style doesn't seem to me -- at least in its English translations -- to be similar to either Paul or Mark. So, I suppose that's why it could be Barnabas or someone else. I believe its canonicity was sometimes disputed over the centuries and I'm not sure, but I wonder if this authorship question could be part of the reason. This shouldn't be a hindrance though. There are many books in the Old Testament for whom we are also unsure as to who was the author. Anyway, Hebrews is properly a canonical book and, being part of Scripture, was therefore ultimately written through "whoever" by the Holy Spirit. So God, being the ultimate author, should give us assurance as to its truths. |
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40 | Snatch? | Hebrews | bjanko | 1185 | ||
I think, as far as I understand you, that I agree. There is a difference between not being really saved and drawing near or then turning away from God on the one hand; and being truly saved and not being willing or able to turn away. Just my 2 cents in reply to you, though this is becoming a wearying topic. :) |
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