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1 | many are called but only few are chosen | Bible general Archive 4 | itiswritten | 213513 | ||
Dear Doc, We are not saved by merit, but we must respond, repent and receive our salvation. He doesn't just drop it on everyone whether repentant or not. However, I do believe that He gives more responsibility as we are faithful with the little He starts us with. Case in point, look at Matthew 25:14-30. I believe this shows that the first two are given more responsibility in accordance with their faithfulness with what they were first given and the third is as you say, cast out. However for the first two, one is given more responsibility than the other according to what each has done with what he did receive at first. Also, verse 29, I believe speaks of gratitude. When it says "from him that hath not, what he hath...in other words the person thinks he has not... he is ungrateful for the little he has, and so loses what little he has. This, I believe, reveals ingrattitude. According to this parable, I believe the first two are examples of the saved, the third one is cast out, as far as I understand it. I could be wrong, but this is what I believe it means- Itiswritten |
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2 | many are called but only few are chosen | Bible general Archive 4 | DocTrinsograce | 213516 | ||
Dear itiswritten, There are slways two ditches alongside every road. Regeneration is entirely an act of God, it is not a cooperative act (John 3:5-8). Although the mechanisms are utterly beyond our probing, we can at least comprehend this minor point. After all, to what degree did we contribute to our own physical conception and birth? We had no say in the matter. In the same way, God's grace is not a response to meritorious repentance. Repentance itself is a gift (Acts 11:18). Instead, repentance arises in response from a people made alive. The lost cannot muster faith and muster repentance. They are dead. Dead men don't need encouragement, they need a miracle! "If anyone makes the assistance of grace depend on the humility or obedience of man and does not agree that it is a gift of grace itself that we are obedient and humble, he contradicts the Apostle who says, 'What have you that you did not receive?' (1 Corinthians 4:7), and, 'But by the grace of God I am what I am' (1 Corinthians 15:10). If anyone affirms that we can form any right opinion or make any right choice which relates to the salvation of eternal life, or that we can be saved by assent to the preaching of the gospel through our natural powers without the effectual work of the Holy Spirit, who makes all whom He calls gladly and willingly assent to and believe in the truth, he is led astray from the plain teaching of Scripture by exalting the natural ability of man, and does not understand the voice of God who says in the Gospel, 'For apart from me you can do nothing' (John 15:5), and the word of the Apostle, 'Not that we are competent of ourselves to claim anything as coming from us; our competence is from God' (2 Corinthians 3:5)." --Council of Orange (529 AD) In Him, Doc |
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