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1 | Human Power? | John 15:5 | mark d seyler | 128947 | ||
Hi Country Girl, I'm glad you brought this up. To me, this verse (Rev 3:20) ties together several current threads. Salvation IS conditional, and the condition rests with us. God has already said He wants in. IF anyone hears His voice and opens the door... Love in Christ, Mark |
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2 | Human Power? | John 15:5 | Country Girl | 129380 | ||
I appreciate your speaking up. Sometimes, it gets lonely defending the truth. Preach on, dear friend, preach on. Gal 3:24 Therefore the Law has become our tutor to lead us to Christ, so that we may be justified by faith. Gal 3:25 But now that faith has come, we are no longer under a tutor. Gal 3:26 For you are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus. Gal 3:27 For all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ. Seems pretty clear to almost anyone. Blessings to you. Country Girl |
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3 | Human Power? | John 15:5 | Hiskid84 | 129399 | ||
Country Girl, It appears that you are replying to this post by Mark: "Hi Country Girl, I'm glad you brought this up. To me, this verse (Rev 3:20) ties together several current threads. Salvation IS conditional, and the condition rests with us. God has already said He wants in. IF anyone hears His voice and opens the door..." Is this correct? I'm curious because in the following post BradK replies that the statement above ("salvation IS conditional and the condition rests with us") is unscriptural. In the next post Mark agrees and retracts that statement. Your post says: "I appreciate your speaking up. Sometimes, it gets lonely defending the truth. Preach on, dear friend, preach on." My question then is, did you make the statement above in response to Mark's original post to you (the one quoted above)? If so, was it in response to his post in its entirety or were your remarks only directed to the portion of his post that was not retracted ("God has already said He wants in. IF anyone hears His voice and opens the door...")? I'm sorry I seem to be in the minority of those to whom it is not (pretty) clear. Unfortunately, your Gal. verses didn't even tie it all together for me. Thanks for any help you can give. In Him, Karen |
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4 | Human Power? | John 15:5 | Country Girl | 129417 | ||
I'm glad to clarify to at least try. Yes, very definitely, I'm in full support of the idea that our Lord and Master is indeed part of the Godhead and as such participated in the creation of this whole universe as cited in John 1. However, in spite of all that awesome power, He and His Father do not want to overpower anyone into submission to Their Will. The actions we take to accept the Gift of Salvation have to be completely and 100 percent voluntary on our part. Also, I'm convinced through the scriptures I've cited earlier that we also have the complete freedom to turn our backs to the Lord AFTER receiving this Gift of Salvation. We have all the options, all the freedom all the way through our very last second in this life and then it's over and we face Judgment Day where we'll be held accountable for our sins, where we'll reap what we've sown in this life. As I've also mentioned, this CANNOT be interpreted to mean we can earn our way to Heaven. This relationship can be compared to the man that is saved from drowning at sea by a kind gentleman and then the saved man feels indebted to his "saviour" for the rest of his life. He asks his new mentor and saviour what could he possibly do to pay him back and the man says "Go and do likewise for as many people as you possibly can." In this scenario, the saved man cannot possibly earn enough to truly pay back the man that saved him but he feels indebted. Similar to the parable of Jesus about forgiving debtors, for we must also be prone to forgive as we've been forgiven our sins. Hope this helps. Blessings to you in your continued study of God's Word. Country Girl |
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