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21 | "ONCE SAVED ALWAYS SAVED"!!! | Matt 22:37 | Rom831 | 30347 | ||
It fits in the EXACT way the other two parables fit in. All three speak about saving the lost - the coin, the sheep, the son. You are picking on this one parable and ignoring the other two that address the same thing. They are all talking about saving the lost. This one just talks about that were saved, the lost then saved "again". Hebrews is easy. Can that person renew themselves? No. Can we renew them? No. Can God? Yes: Matt 19:26 And looking at them Jesus said to them, "With people this is impossible, but with God all things are possible." Look at those verses again though. It says in the case of those who HAVE BEEN partakers of the Holy Spirit and THEN have fallen away. It clearly says they CAN fall away. And no, we can't get them back, only God can. Bless...ArtS |
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22 | "ONCE SAVED ALWAYS SAVED"!!! | Matt 22:37 | Rom831 | 30341 | ||
But see, the difference is that you are misrepresenting the point of the parable. That parable talks about ask and you shall recieve, knock and the door will be open. It is made clear that if we do this, God WILL respond. So your generalization goes against that parable. The one I brought up does no such thing. You are simply ignoring part of what Jesus said in order to maintain your belife. Bless...ArtS |
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23 | "ONCE SAVED ALWAYS SAVED"!!! | Matt 22:37 | Rom831 | 30330 | ||
Oh, I have been called lots of things too. But the only one I claim is "Christian". (Ok, I actually like "follower of the way" too - Acts 22:4-NIV) | ||||||
24 | "ONCE SAVED ALWAYS SAVED"!!! | Matt 22:37 | Rom831 | 30315 | ||
But the son previously had life, the was dead, and was alive again. So it wasn't just someone lost then found. And it doens't make sense that it was Jews/Gentiles because He doesn't use any of His comon analogies for them. Also, neither case fits the gentiles. They weren't always saved, neither were they saved, lost, and saved. And why would it be the Jews? What point would He have been trying to make? They were God's chosen, lost, then came back? No need for a parable there, that's not a lesson, just history. I agree there are other places to prove this as well. I just cant see any other reasonable or useful intrepretation of this passage. Bless...artS |
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25 | "ONCE SAVED ALWAYS SAVED"!!! | Matt 22:37 | Rom831 | 30314 | ||
Honestly, I know very little about Calvin and honestly don't have much desire to find out. I have not derived my belifes from him or any other preacher. Just based on making what I see to be to only conclusion possible based on the entire Bible. I had a friend on another board that would get a kick out of you calling my ideas Calvanistic though. He thinks I'm as armenian as they come. Me? I don't do labels. Bless...ArtS |
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26 | "ONCE SAVED ALWAYS SAVED"!!! | Matt 22:37 | Rom831 | 30313 | ||
How does that make sense? The "father" told the grumbling son tat he had always been with Him. Is this true about the pharasies? Seems to me Jesus spoke of them harshly as vipers and such. Doesn't sound like someone who has always been near and dear to God. Bless...ArtS |
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27 | "ONCE SAVED ALWAYS SAVED"!!! | Matt 22:37 | Rom831 | 30305 | ||
To your points: 1) makes no sense. How can you intrepret this as anything but salvation. The one immediately before talks about a sinner repenting and receiving salvation. The parable itself speaks of a man taking his inheritance from God and squanders it on earth (and isn't our inheritance salvation?). The next one goes on to show what happens when you choose to waste what God gives you, saying you cannot serve these earthly desires and God. In the parable, the son was alive, dead, then alive again. He had an inheritance that was his, from God. Only saved people have this. 2) Is it possible for us to restore him? No. Is it possible for him to restore himself? no. Is it possible for God to restore him? Matt 19:26 And looking at them Jesus said to them, "With people this is impossible, but with God all things are possible." Wit God, ALL things are possible. 3) Parables are he words of Jesus. That's good enough for me. 4) It doesn't say he stopped being a son, it says he became lost and dead. Either this happened when he turned from God, or Jesus left something out. I tend to believe He didn't. When did he regain his salvation? When he returned to God (we see this by the celebration that occurred as we are told in the parable prior to it would take place when someone is saved). Bless...ArtS |
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28 | "ONCE SAVED ALWAYS SAVED"!!! | Matt 22:37 | Rom831 | 30304 | ||
First, just using common sense, the two brothers were equal, both with an inheritance coming from the father, the father representing God. So the son who left, was a child of God, not a child of Satan. Second, the verse reads "and has come to life again". "Again" means he was alive before. Then, when he tuned is back on God, he became dead. Then, when he came back to God, he was alive "again". Bless...ArtS |
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29 | "ONCE SAVED ALWAYS SAVED"!!! | Matt 22:37 | Rom831 | 30129 | ||
Look at the Prodigal son. He was a son, turned his back on his father (God) and became lost. He then returned to his father (God) and was again found. He was a child of the father, knew him and was his. He then willfully turned his back, took his inheritance and left. But he finally returned. So he was Alive, then dead, then alive. Luke 15:24 for this son of mine was dead and has come to life again; he was lost and has been found.' And they began to celebrate. Some will say he wasn't saved to begin with, but he WAS a son, not a stranger. And the verse says when he returned, he was alive "again" which means he was alive before. But we see in between, he WAS dead. There are other verses about causing believers to stumble, about churches becoming dead and needing to awake again, about casting those out who fall away until they return. But this to me is the most clear cut. Bless...ArtS |
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30 | Is God really just? | Deut 32:4 | Rom831 | 30030 | ||
Is God just or not. This has confused me a bit. We all sin and all fall short. We are all sinners and the wages of sin is death. Just because we believe in Christ, doesn't make us any less a sinner. It is by God's grace alone that we do not end up where all sinners deserve. But that's the question. If a non believer dies, they go to hell. This is a just reward for their sins. But believers sin too. So wouldn't the just reward also be hell? And if we don't get our "just reward" but something else, then wasn't God being merciful and not just? I'm not saying this is a bad thing! Just trying to reconcile this in my head. Bless...ArtS |
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31 | The Purpose of Hell? | Rom 9:20 | Rom831 | 30026 | ||
I'm going to have to post a seperate thread I guess. This brings up a long standing question on God being just. Hope you look fo it... Bless...ArtS |
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32 | The Purpose of Hell? | Rom 9:20 | Rom831 | 29868 | ||
I agree. What I was poorly trying to say is that God doesn't just sit in heaven, point to some random person and say "condemned". We are saved or condemned based on if we have accepted Christ. The choice is ours. If WE believe, we are given God's grace and are saved. If WE do not, we are condemned because of that choice. Not simply because God picked us to suffer. Bless...ArtS |
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33 | 3 times married well you go to hell? | John 4:18 | Rom831 | 29843 | ||
Marriage isn't a sin. divorce is a sin. God forgives our sin if we truely seek forgivness. As in the case of the woman at the well, Jesus did not condemn her. He did not tell her to divorce again or return to her first husband. Instead, he invited her to take of His living water. Bless...ArtS |
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34 | Is Depression of the devil? | Bible general Archive 1 | Rom831 | 29841 | ||
I know this is an older post, but I wanted to throw this in. I suffer from Chronic Depression and have for many many years. Is it from the Devil? no. Adam and Eve were created perfect. They had no defects. When Adam sinned, the world became broken. Just look at all the things that happened immediately to Adam, Eve and the world becauseof the fall (Gen 3:16-19. As time progresses from then, more and more defects enter into our world, and yes, our bodies. This started with the fall and the further and further from then we get, the more these pile up on each other. Ever wonder why incest wasn't "wrong" until Exodus? Incest is bad because the genes between close relatives are too similar. If there is a flaw in one's genes, there is too great a chance that flaw might be present in the relative's genes and therefore cause a defect. Between non relatives, the chance that a flwed gene from one parent is also flawed in the other parent is pretty small. If one parent's gene has a flaw, the other parent's non flawed gene can take over. But in the begining, there were no flaws so none to be matched and no defects. But through 10,000 years, these have grown. Is my depression from Satan? No. Its from a broken world. Can greater faith in God cure it? Hmmm... God CAN cure anything, but doesn't necessarily cure everything. This is a burden I bear. But honestly, I have been able to help a number of people with depression because I know what they go through and can relate and be there for them because I too have it. Would I like to not have it? You bet! would I give it up if it meant not having been able to help the people I have? No. Bless...ArtS |
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35 | The Purpose of Hell? | Rom 9:20 | Rom831 | 29839 | ||
Although Joe's answer was great, I want to throw in a little as well. god doesn't damn anyone to hell. God desires that we all come to Heaven. The problem is, sin cannot enter Heaven and we are all sinful. When we choose sin, we can no longer go to Heaven because God cannot look upon sin. So what is the option? Someplace where God is not, a place where sin is put for eternity; a place that totally is without God, and therefore, without anything good. Since we all deserve this, God had to provide a way for us. That way was Jesus. If we merely accept God's forgivness through fiath in Jesus, our sins are covered by His blood and we are cleansed. If we reject this, we cannot enter Heaven. This isn't God's punnishment. He doesn't condemn those people to Hell. The choice is ours and we cannot blame God for our choice. Bless...ArtS |
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36 | Audio Bible | Bible general Archive 1 | Rom831 | 29650 | ||
I'm downloading them! So thanks! Bless...ArtS |
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37 | Giving | Num 18:24 | Rom831 | 29570 | ||
We tithe to the Lord. Not to a particular church or even to A church. Give from your heart to God, be it your old church, your new church, the homeless, those in need, the ministery, etc. And it doesn't HAVE to be money. We see in the Bibles examples of tithes as grain, wine, oil, firstborn of your herd or flock, spice, etc. As long as you give from your heart to god, He is pleased. Because God loves a cheerful giver. Bless...ArtS |
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38 | Please explain the Trinity. | John 1:1 | Rom831 | 29568 | ||
Huh? First, I don't get what that has to do with the thread topic. Second, what you are saying sure sounds like works and a lot more "enlightenment" than is taught. I'm saved by my faith in Christ despite myself. I'll never think like, act like or speak like Christ. I'm a flawed sinner, He wasn't. I can never even fully comprehend God little lone pretend to be like Him. He's God, I'm not. Bless...ArtS |
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39 | WHICH COMES FIRST, THE RAPTURE OR TRIBUL | NT general Archive 1 | Rom831 | 29540 | ||
Thanks for your reply. It is very interesting. I guess I can kind of see this view and kind of agree. But, where would you put the events of Revelation? See, I believe these things (mostly) will occur before the rapture. In fact, I believe these are the same things I pointed to in the Daniel verses. In fact, I think they are happening right now. Where I think I differ, is in what we are terming things. I believe there will be wars (which always cause famines). I believe we will be persecuted more and more. I believe things are going to start getting worse and worse just as both the Matthew and Daniel verses say. But then, these days will be cut short and these things will end when Jesus appears (rapture). Then starts Revelations. Which is what I believe is the great tribulation. I see what we will be here for to just be the "birth pangs." Nothing compared to the 7 seal, trumpet and bowl judgments and three woes. Bless...ArtS |
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40 | WHICH COMES FIRST, THE RAPTURE OR TRIBUL | NT general Archive 1 | Rom831 | 29529 | ||
There are many views - pretrib, pre wrath, post trib, etc. But there are many verses that lead me to believe in pretrib. MT 24:29 "Immediately after the distress of those days " the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light; the stars will fall from the sky, and the heavenly bodies will be shaken.' MT 24:30 "At that time the sign of the Son of Man will appear in the sky, and all the nations of the earth will mourn. They will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of the sky, with power and great glory. 31 And he will send his angels with a loud trumpet call, and they will gather his elect from the four winds, from one end of the heavens to the other. This can mean only one of two things. vs29 either referrs to Rev 4:1 or Rev 8:7. If it's 4:1 then vs 29 refers to the time preceding the tribulation where things start getting bad (spoken of throughout the NT and Dan 11). If it refers to Rev8:7 then vs 29 refers to the seal judgments. So, at MOST, we will be here for only the seal judgments and will miss the trumpet and bowl judgments and the 3 woes. So which is it? 1TH 5:9 For God did not appoint us to suffer wrath but to receive salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ And what is the tribulation? REV 6:16 They called to the mountains and the rocks, "Fall on us and hide us from the face of him who sits on the throne and from the wrath of the Lamb! 17 For the great day of their wrath has come, and who can stand?" Notice that in Rev 6, they are already speaking of suffering God's wrath which Jesus promissed us we would not. Since Rev 6 comes before Rev 8, the Above Matthew verse can't be speaking of Rev 8. So it must be speaking of Rev 4 which takes us out of the Tribulation all together. Unconvinced? Ok... Now read Daniel 11, particullarly verse 21 on. This describes the ruler who will be alive just before the tribulation/end times. Most of this describes a conflict in the middle east. Keep reading into 12 which is the tribulation (as in Revelation). Did you catch it? DA 12:1 "At that time Michael, the great prince who protects your people, will arise. There will be a time of distress such as has not happened from the beginning of nations until then. But at that time your people--everyone whose name is found written in the book--will be delivered. 2 Multitudes who sleep in the dust of the earth will awake: some to everlasting life, others to shame and everlasting contempt. This is right at the begining of the tribulation. We know this because the rest of Daniel goes on to detail it. This is when we will be delivered, the dead will awake, some will go to everlasting life, some to everlasting death. Yet this isn't post trib, because all of Daniel still has to happen. Bless...ArtS |
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