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1 | How do we preach the Gospel? | 1 John 2:2 | Hank | 101168 | ||
John Reformed - Dear John, citing John 3:18 as a reference point, you write: "Those who do not believe, do not, for they are condemned already." ...... John, this is not what the passage says. John 3:18 says, "He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God." ..... Man does not believe because he has already been condemned, and the passage does not say that. He is condemned because he has not believed, and that's what the passage says. ..... The former is a Calvinistic spin. The latter is what the passage actually says. And the two don't mean the same thing at all. --Hank | ||||||
2 | How do we preach the Gospel? | 1 John 2:2 | John Reformed | 101186 | ||
Dear Hank, Another thought occured to me just now. Are we not all born into the world under the sentence of death? Are we not all lost and doomed to eternal damnation? Is it not tue that our sole hope is the gratuitous mercy of God Himself? Does this not show that we come to the gospel as condemned men already? Cetainly our rejection of Christ merely proves our just punishment, does it not? Since the gospel has not been preached to all men, in all places and in all ages, do those who have never heard it escape final judgement by virtue of their ignorance? I think not! Therefore we are condemned for our sins against our Creator and not for rejecting Christ alone. John |
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3 | How do we preach the Gospel? | 1 John 2:2 | Hank | 101195 | ||
John Reformed - Three things emerge on this thread: [1] That you have no intention of answering my question about what John 3:18 actually says, [2] that you prefer instead to introduce all sorts of other material in an effort to evade the question, and [3] that you don't know how to end a thread. I give up. --Hank | ||||||