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1 | Workout your own salvation | Rom 1:18 | heartfire | 20652 | ||
About that Abraham thing, God tested Abraham's faith so Abraham could progress from faith to faith and glory to glory. It's like impure gold, and you run it through fire to burn up the impurities. Of course, God already knew that Abraham could handle it. But if God had not done that, Abraham's faith would not have been strengthened. Well, let's say, after that experience, Abraham now knows that God will never go back on His promise, no matter what. And anyway, if God had not tested him, there would have been no future in which Abraham would have been obedient. So when it happened, Abraham's obedience was more or less proven, and the devil cannot accuse Abraham anymore. And as for not being able to choose anything, that's not true. God gave us all a free will. That's why there's such a thing as faith and doubt. |
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2 | Workout your own salvation | Rom 1:18 | Reformer Joe | 20673 | ||
Our will is in bondage to sin before we are saved, and there is not a single thing that the unregenerate person does that pleases God. Romans 8:7-9. Therefore, an unbeliever will make all kinds of choices, depending on his influences of life around him, his opportunity and power to act. But he will NEVER choose to please God apart from the liberation from sin that comes from the Holy Spirit's regeneration of the heart. He is completely unable to do so. That is biblical truth. --Joe! |
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