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Results from: Answered Bible Questions, Unanswered Bible Questions Author: Lookn4ward2Heavn Ordered by Date |
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1 | Decretive Will vs. Perceptive Will? | Ps 115:3 | Lookn4ward2Heavn | 195098 | ||
Doc, Regarding the example... 1. Is it actually suggested that it was God's decree - "His eternal purpose, according to His will, whereby He has foreordained" - that the man rob a bank? 2. Would that not be the same thing as saying that God decreed the man to sin, that is, God decreed this man to go against his preceptive, i.e. revealed will? Even further, being an eternal decree, is it being suggested that God never intended for the man to obey a known divine precept? 3. Could not the rape of a child also be used as an example of God's "decretive will"? Can it not also be said that, although God having laid the command "thou shalt not rape children," nevertheless, God never intended for this man to obey it? 4. How can God, if the integrity of His being is to be maintained, will the opposite of what he commands, worse, never intend the obedience demanded in the first place? 5. Furthermore (and this question is the more important, which I would like a response), how does Deut 29:29 demonstrate such a teaching regrading God's will as proposed in your post? |
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2 | Definition of "Perfect Will of God" | Ps 115:3 | Lookn4ward2Heavn | 195081 | ||
How are Christians, according to your understanding of the Bible, to define what is meant by the phrase "the perfect will of God"? | ||||||
3 | God's Right to Rule. | Ps 2:11 | Lookn4ward2Heavn | 188301 | ||
Brian, In asking this question, I am seeking to know how other Christians view God's fundamental right to govern men. For example, some see that the mere fact that God is Creator gives him that right. It seems to suggest the phrase I have heard in a movie, "I brought you into the world and I can take you out of the world." If something like this phrase is intended in understanding God's right to govern humankind (something, it seems, StJohn seems to suggest), it makes God's rule seem rather harsh. Is the mere fact that God created man the only reason why God has a right to rule over men or is there another more legitimate basis for understanding this divine right? |
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4 | By What Right Does God Rule Man? | Ps 2:11 | Lookn4ward2Heavn | 188046 | ||
Upon what basis does God have the right to rule and judge man commanding men to obey him? | ||||||
5 | Is It Human to Sin? | Gen 1:27 | Lookn4ward2Heavn | 188045 | ||
The Bible teaches that man was created by God to be like Him. Therefore, man was created without sin or a sin "nature". However, many times you will hear the preacher, referring to Christians, say, "We sin all the time." And adds as the reason or basis for this: "We're only human." My question: If God created humankind without sin, would not Christians be behaving more like humans when they do not sin? |
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6 | Good Works Equal Born Again? | Matt 7:21 | Lookn4ward2Heavn | 187602 | ||
I did not ask how one can know if someone else is a genuine Christian, that is, have the assurance that they are saved. I ask how con one know for certain that they themselves are saved. However, some questions: 1. What do you mean by "whose sin nature has been crucified? Are you suggesting one who no longer sins at all? 2. If good works are mixed with bad works, can one know for certain that they are born again? If so, how? Is it be weighing or counting out if one's good works are more than their bad works? |
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7 | God grant repentance? | Gal 3:23 | Lookn4ward2Heavn | 187390 | ||
Regarding 2 Tim 2:25, what do you mean when you say, "Apart from God's "granting" no one has any desire to repent." Three observations: 1. To, as you seem to suggest, grant one the "desire" to repent does not necessarily follow that he/she will repent. 2. It doesn't say God grants them the "desire" to repent but that "God may grant them repentance". 3. TEV translates it: "God may give them the opportunity to repent". This is my understanding of the verse. |
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8 | Clarification | Matt 7:21 | Lookn4ward2Heavn | 187318 | ||
1. My apologies if I was not clear. What I meant was how can receiving salvation be conditional on one hand and, on the other hand, receiving God's love be unconditional (that is, if receiving God's love is equivalent to receiving salvation)? 2. Again, is there not the possibility of deception? In addition, is it not necessary that one first be saved before he/she can have the Spirit's witness? 3. Would not your response here rule out Hebrews 12:5-9 as evidence of salvation? If not, why not? |
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9 | Performance? | Matt 7:21 | Lookn4ward2Heavn | 187268 | ||
1. How can salvation be conditional as to performance and simultaneously irrelevant respecting the reception of God's love? Is not recieving God's love salvation? 2. If salvation is conditional upon performance, how does one know for certain their performance is accepted and, therefore, in a saving relationship with God? 2. Does difficulty or suffering assure one of their salvation? |
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10 | Whose voice? | Matt 7:21 | Lookn4ward2Heavn | 187267 | ||
Cannot the Devil can counterfeit the Holy Spirit's voice? If so, how does one know for certain they are hearing the Holy Spirit and, in fact, are children of God, that is, saved? |
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11 | Salvation a process? | Matt 7:21 | Lookn4ward2Heavn | 187265 | ||
1. But how do you know for certain you have met or will meet the conditions at the end of earthly life? 2. If salvation is a process, are you saying one is not completely or actually saved until the "process" is completed? Does this mean there is no assurance? |
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12 | Cannot Satan counterfeit fruit? | Matt 7:21 | Lookn4ward2Heavn | 187254 | ||
1. If the "Devil has a counterfeit for everything God has", does not that include his ability to counterfeit the "fruit in the persons [i.e. a professed believer's] life"? 1. If this is true, how can one be sure is "fruit" stems from a genuine, saving relationship with God? |
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13 | Has God's Spirit been received? | Matt 7:21 | Lookn4ward2Heavn | 187251 | ||
1. Can one be deceived into believing that he has received the Holy Spirit when he has not? 2. What is the assurance that it is God's Spirit that has been received? |
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14 | "If"? | Matt 7:21 | Lookn4ward2Heavn | 187250 | ||
1. Note, "If". How can one be certain that he/she has died with him? How can one be certain that one has succcessfully endured hardships? Does this mean that if hardship (by whatever is meant) is not endured, he/she will not reign with Christ? 2. "If we deny him...are unfaithful". Does that mean salvation is conditional? There is no assurance because of the possibility of denial and unfaithfulness on the part of a professed believer? |
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15 | Deceptive faith? | Matt 7:21 | Lookn4ward2Heavn | 187247 | ||
Again (it seems to go in circles), how does one know that their faith is genuine and not a deceptive as something that will, in the end, fail? | ||||||
16 | Assurance based on performance? | Matt 7:21 | Lookn4ward2Heavn | 187087 | ||
1. But how does one know they are not faking it? How does one know they have truely asked Jesus into their heart? 2. Are you saying that assurance, then, based on the sincerity of my performance? |
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17 | Perfection? | Matt 7:21 | Lookn4ward2Heavn | 187086 | ||
How, however, does one know they are one that has been perfected in the first place? | ||||||
18 | Concern and desire evidence salvation? | Matt 7:21 | Lookn4ward2Heavn | 187084 | ||
So if one has a concern for their own spiritual state and a desire to know God, they can be infallibly certain that they are saved? | ||||||
19 | Experience with performance? | Matt 7:21 | Lookn4ward2Heavn | 187083 | ||
Then, are saying that experience ("the change you have experienced") accompanied with performance ("We must crucify the flesh") are evidences of genuine salvation? | ||||||
20 | Spirituality is evidence of salvation? | Matt 7:21 | Lookn4ward2Heavn | 187082 | ||
Are you saying that a spiritual experience is evidence of salvation? |
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