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1 | Did the Apostles have a choice? | Luke 5:8 | brother paul | 179246 | ||
dear KumKum, I agree, I dont think they had a choice. To strengthen your question look at Jer 1:5. Isa 44:24, 49:1,5, and Eph 1:4,5. Here is the conundrum...... we must have free will to be able to be conformed into the image of God, because He has free will, otherwise He would not be God. But God binds Himself by His own laws by using His free will. This is exactly the path Jesus follows, he uses his free will to abrogate all the decisions to his Father. (John 6:38) He uses his free will to limit what he does to the things his Father has already stated. Because God is love and free will is the essential component of love, we need free will to be able to love. Those people who do not yet know God cannot love because they are in bondage to sin and are driven by their own desires and agendas, they cannot demonstrate true love because they are motivated by selfish lusts and do not emulate the divine nature. The only people I find in scripture who are free are those born of Him. ' the truth shall make you free' and the the 'freedom of the sons of God'. This is where legalism and orthodoxy separates itself from the Spirit. We have to rethink the meaning of 'sin' and 'salvation' in the ultimate plan of God. Was not everything He made good? What we might call 'evil' might be part of His creative plan and purpoose. What we call 'sin' may have been designed. Do we continue to eat of the tree of knowledge of ggod and evil? Pray about it, seek the Holy Spirit who brings us into all truth. (jOHN 16:13) Maybe there is a time when God chooses to call everyone to be reconciled with Him. That would make it fair. Christ came to save the world, do we believe He is going to do it, or fail? Yours and His, in Him, Paul |
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2 | The meaning of your statments | Luke 5:8 | Brian#9 | 179255 | ||
Paul Sir; Would please explain what you mean by; 1)"We have to rethink the meaning of 'sin' and 'salvation' in the ultimate plan of GOD." 2) "What we might call 'evil' might be part of HIS creative plan and purpose." 3) "What we call 'sin' may have been designed." 1 John 1:9 @ 1 John 1:7b, Brian |
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3 | The meaning of your statments | Luke 5:8 | KumKum | 179271 | ||
Gen 24:60 Gen 16:10 | ||||||
4 | The meaning of your statments | Luke 5:8 | Brian#9 | 179272 | ||
My questions were directed at Brother Paul about his answer Kum Kum. Your answer of Gen. 24:60 and Gen.16:10 dose not answer them. Confusion? Brian, |
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5 | The meaning of your statments | Luke 5:8 | brother paul | 179491 | ||
Dear Brian, Sorry for the delay, I've been away, If I understand your reply correctly, you ask how is it that 'sin' and 'evil' are in repemtive plan of God. Thank you for your question. 1 Cor 5:5 speaks p;ainly how an evildoer should be turned over to Satan that the Spirit might be saved. Somehow what we might consider as 'wrong' and 'sinful' has an ultimate goal of bringing people to repentance. Is this how we learn? Did mankind have to fall into 'sin' to begin to understand His ways? Did Judas have to betray Christ? Without Judas would I be a Christian? Is there a 'Judas' in us all? Is it part of the process of coming to know Him? Is 'sin' and realisation of 'sin' a part of reconciliation to Him? Romans 3:7, even Paul's lie is unto His glory. Romans 7:13 where the sin must become exceedingly sinful. When Paul said he had been accused of saying that, 'let us do evil that goog may abound' (Rom 3:8) he was accused of exactly the the point I a, trying to make. I, like Paul, do not advocate a life of sin. I, like Paul, say that God is all in all, (1 Cor 15:28) and averything permitted in God's wisdom could have been prevented by His power. Therefore anything that happens is OK by me. If he has permitted it, why should I object? Once we enter this spiritual understanding, it changes everything, all of a sudden everything is fine, it's in Him, no problems, do not be anxious, we are at peace, in Him. Got it? Love you brother, Yours and His, Paul |
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6 | The meaning of your statments | Luke 5:8 | BradK | 179498 | ||
Dear brother paul, Out of curiosity, what is your answer to the question you posed, "Without Judas would I be a Christian?" Was it merely rhetorical or did I miss something? Your reply came across a little ambiguous- maybe even confusing. Speaking the Truth in Love, BradK |
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