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1 | eph 1:4-5 what is predestination, chosen | Bible general Archive 3 | Apollos | 185753 | ||
Hello Edwin My anaysis of Romans 1-3 is as follows. Ch.1:18ff the Gentiles are guilty. Ch 2 - the Jews are, if anything, more guilty than the gentiles since they have sinned against greater light. Paul's conclusion in chapter 3 is that all have therefore sinned and no one will be justified by works. The whole world is guilty before God. His conclusion to this argument is a whole string of quotations from the OT Scriptures to the effect that the human race is thoroughly sinful (3:9-19). When he says in chapter 2 that it is those who keep the law by patient continuance in doing good (and not just those who know the law like the Jews) who will be justified he does not mean that anyone actually is justified in this way because he goes on to declare in 3:20, 23 etc all have sinned and that no one will be justified by works of the law. It is only through Christ that anyone is justified, Jew or Gentile, with the law or without the law. This is how I interprete these marvellous verses. As for Cornelius, even as a good gentile who believed in the God of Israel and prayed to him etc, he still needed to hear the gospel of forgiveness of sins through the Lord Jesus Christ (Acts 10:43) and Peter specifically says in 11:14 that it is through this message that Cornelius and his household would be saved. I would also want to say that if he was seeking God before this (as he clearly was) it could only have been because God had begun to work in his heart to bring him to himself. Without that work of God no one would ever seek for God. Best wishes Apollos |
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2 | eph 1:4-5 what is predestination, chosen | Bible general Archive 3 | ebrain | 185818 | ||
Hi Apollos. You said. "I would also want to say that if he was seeking God before this (as he clearly was) it could only have been because God had begun to work in his heart to bring him to himself. Without that work of God no one would ever seek for God." Now have a look at. Job 1:8 Then the LORD said to Satan, "Have you considered My servant Job, that there is none like him on the earth, a blameless and upright man, one who fears God and shuns evil?" Job 1:9 So Satan answered the LORD and said, "Does Job fear God for nothing? Job 1:10 "Have You not made a hedge around him, around his household, and around all that he has on every side? You have blessed the work of his hands, and his possessions have increased in the land Tell me did Job fear God of his own free will, or as Satan said, because of what God had done for Job, when the Lord gave Satan permission to take away the blessing? And what about these verses. Eze 18:32 "For I have no pleasure in the death of one who dies," says the Lord GOD. "Therefore turn and live!" Eze 33:11 "Say to them: 'As I live,' says the Lord GOD, 'I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but that the wicked turn from his way and live. Turn, turn from your evil ways! For why should you die, O house of Israel?' Eze 18:21 "But if a wicked man turns from all his sins which he has committed, keeps all My statutes, and does what is lawful and right, he shall surely live; he shall not die. Eze 18:22 "None of the transgressions which he has committed shall be remembered against him; because of the righteousness which he has done, he shall live. Eze 18:23 "Do I have any pleasure at all that the wicked should die?" says the Lord GOD, "and not that he should turn from his ways and live? Do you mean to tell me that God said the above, knowing full well that it is an imposibility for any man to "turn from his ways and live?" |
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3 | eph 1:4-5 what is predestination, chosen | Bible general Archive 3 | mark d seyler | 185832 | ||
Hi Edwin, I agree entirely with these points you are making. Love in Christ, Mark |
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