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1 | What would prompt these tears? | Rev 7:17 | Hank | 121335 | ||
Tim: Amen! Yes, saved by God's gift of grace. not works, so that no one may boast. [Eph 2:8,9]. --Hank | ||||||
2 | What would prompt these tears? | Rev 7:17 | Rowdy | 121338 | ||
Tim, Hank, Mammapbs and BradK and anyone else who believes in this philosophy of salavation through Grace only, without works or being fruitful in God's vineyard, please explain to me the following. 1) First of all, why bother to participate on the Forum? Why not just kick back and enjoy life? Take a vacation and count your blessings. Sure, go to worship when you can and it's convenient to you but no real sweat there either. You've been guaranteed your Home in Heaven, right? 2) Please expalin to me the reconciliation of the parable of Jesus with the story of the vine and His being the branch AND your NOT being fruitful in contrast to the scriptures. 3) Please explain to me how you plan to prove to Christ, to God or to anyone else including Judgment Day IF you're NOT fruitful as shown in John 15:8. 4) What was Christ talking about in Rev 2:10 by our being faithful? Wonder if one of you is NOT faithful sometime in the future, what then? How is this guarantee fulfilled then? 5) Finally, how do you plan to get around the fact that we'll all be judged by ALL of Words of Christ AND ALL of the Words of His official representatives, as written down in the NT? There are other questions but believe it or not, I'm trying to restrain myself. Please explain these answers to these questions as I've asked before with scriptures in support. I'd really appreciate it and God bless all of you. --Rowdy |
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3 | What would prompt these tears? | Rev 7:17 | Searcher56 | 121344 | ||
First it is not a philosophy of salvation ... it is theology. 1) First of all, why bother to participate on the Forum? Why not just kick back and enjoy life? Take a vacation and count your blessings. Sure, go to worship when you can and it's convenient to you but no real sweat there either. You've been guaranteed your Home in Heaven, right? Scripture ... Eph 2:8-10, Phi 2:12 (context vv 12-18) ... We need to work out salvation - not to be saved or continue to be saved, but proof that we are saved. Musch like if we are in need of a heart transplant, we get the heart for free, because someone died in order for us to have a new life. We could kick back ... but no one would know we have a new heart. We need to prove it. |
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4 | What would prompt these tears? | Rev 7:17 | Rowdy | 121365 | ||
I think I can say Amen to your statement. However, instead of the word "theology," I would prefer to just call it "being a christian." The "ology" words, most all the Greek words which end in "y" make it sound as if we're depending on man's wisdom. I know, I know you didn't mean to say that. It's just one of my hangups. But good response and God bless. --Rowdy |
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5 | What would prompt these tears? | Rev 7:17 | Hank | 121369 | ||
Rowdy: The etymology of the word "theology" is enlightening. The first stem "the" goes back to the root word "theos" in Greek, meaning "God." The second stem "ology" goes back to the root word "logos" in Greek, meaning "word." That gives us "God-word." Compare John 1:1: "In the beginning was the was the Word [logos], and the Word [logos] was with God [theos], and the Word [logos] was God [theos]. So, what do you think now of the word "theology"? --Hank | ||||||
6 | What would prompt these tears? | Rev 7:17 | Rowdy | 121474 | ||
Of course, I have to agree. There's no question but that this "ology" is clear and straight forward. I'm just being a little conservative than I have to be when I say I prefer to use just good ole English. Just like you've stated about this silly obsession with the KJV, it's a preference on my part. I guess I'm just a little overwhelmed by the whole group of ologies when they come at you several at a time in one post. It makes me a little uneasy. Who invented this latest ology about salvation? As I'm sure you've heard, this world of us, especially America is "eaten up" with this obsession of humanism and its advocates like to think we can do without God and His Word. It's really quite disgusting to deal with and quite conceited of a fellow human being to think of the human intellect to that degree. So I like to keep things simple in my world. Yeah, believe it or not simple in spite of my propensity for verboseness. Say, that reminds me, while I've got you "on the line." Why is that the Forum is so incredibly conservative about restricting some of these threads. I've noticed along with a few others, that sometimes these threads of discussion are restricted almost as soon as the first question is posted, without at least to me a whole lot of controversy. If the Bible cites controversy like of Grace and faith with or without works isn't it proper for us as Bible students to discuss those items of controversy as God commands through His example of the Bereans? Please advise. Thanks. God bless. --Rowdy |
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