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1 | Were all names once in the book of life? | Rev 3:5 | bowler | 206300 | ||
Doc With all due respect to both you and to Arthur Pink the very great and respected theologian by many and now by me I am having trouble with his concept that the book of life is truly a figure of speech. Now, this is submitted in the spirit of a desire to arrive at a literal interpretation of the Bible and is not meant to be sent to you by way of starting argument or debate. This is just an obeservation on what the immenent theologian Aruthur Pink wrote on the subject at hand. Aruthur Pink 3. Its Grand Original, http://www.pbministries.org/books/pink/Election/election.htm Pink writes - This expression "the Book of Life" has its roots in Isaiah 4:3, wherein God refers to His chosen remnant as "every one that is written among the living in Jerusalem," and it is this which explains the meaning of all the later references thereto. God’s eternal act of election is spoken of as writing the names of His chosen ones in the Book of Life, and the following things are suggested by this figure. First, the exact knowledge which God has of all the elect, His particular remembrance of them, His love for and delight in them. Second, that His eternal election is one of particular persons whose names are definitely recorded by Him. Third, to show they are absolutely safe and secure, for God having written their names in the Book of Life, they shall never be blotted out (Rev. 3:5). Isaiah 4:3 is not the first reference to the book of life in the Bible as the roots of that concept as Pink states. Exodus gives us the roots and the first account of a book owned by God that contains the names of those belonging to God – Exodus 32:32, 33, and it is not in that scripture a figure of speech as it is in Isaiah. The next account is Psalm 69:28 which specifically says the words the book of life and that the wicked shall not be recorded with the righteous. According to Moses account we cannot assume that the book is merely figurative because the words written and scrolls are used, similar things can be said of Psalm 69, as is true in Revelation in several places concerning the book and names being written. Pink gives no scriptural reasoning for why the book of life should be considered to be a figure other than the wording in Isaiah 4:3, and based on that one scripture, he calls it a figure. There is no reason to question that the book of life is the Lamb’s Book of Life based on the collection of scriptures on the subject. I will not get into here the various things I saw that I do not quite agree with that Pink says about election. Nothing major, like sovereignty, but various observations about process as he describes it. Respectfully and in the Spirit of Christians fellow ship, blessings abound, bowler |
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2 | Were all names once in the book of life? | Rev 3:5 | DocTrinsograce | 206322 | ||
Okay. | ||||||
3 | Were all names once in the book of life? | Rev 3:5 | bowler | 206332 | ||
Doc I do hope I have not offended you in some way, but I respect if you are done, no need to reply. blessings abound, bowler |
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4 | Were all names once in the book of life? | Rev 3:5 | DocTrinsograce | 206443 | ||
Perish the thought, bowler. Offending me -- even if you had -- is of extremely little consequence. I'm nobody. | ||||||
5 | Were all names once in the book of life? | Rev 3:5 | unction | 206455 | ||
Doc I started this so now I would after reading all that has been said like a word. I would like to say are you not pushing away the real qustion. That would be that GOD told Moses "I will blot him out of the book."Exodus 32:33 dose John Calivn turn over in his grave at that? If you name is not in the book of life then you will go to hell or the lake of fire. So that is why I ask were all names at one time in the book of life? and that thought is in the first and last book of the bible. Maybe not all 66 books but what is in all of them? Why are you talking down this Qustion is it because it may through a monkey wrench toward calvin? love you but bible is bible! and We shall live by every word that proceed from GOD. |
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6 | Were all names once in the book of life? | Rev 3:5 | hopalong | 206457 | ||
Ex 32:33 The LORD said to Moses, "Whoever has sinned against Me, I will blot him out of My book. 32:34 "But go now, lead the people where I told you. Behold, My angel shall go before you; nevertheless in the day when I punish, I will punish them for their sin." Dear Unction, Who (apart from Jesus Christ) has not sinned against God! It appears to me, that the only remedy to having one's name blotted out, is to have one's sins blotted out! Thank God for our glorious Savior who has saved us (His chosen ones) from death and eternal wrath. Hoppy |
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7 | Were all names once in the book of life? | Rev 3:5 | unction | 206484 | ||
Hoppy we all sin I only pointed out that GOD said he took some names out of the book( of life )assumed. That in its self raises Qustions for those how say "once saved always saved."I am trying to sort that out. |
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