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Results from: Answered Bible Questions, Unanswered Bible Questions Author: McGracer Ordered by Date |
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1 | Is it by works or by grace? | Luke 11:8 | McGracer | 57719 | ||
Dear NASB Forum, Luke 11:8 seems to say that God answers because of persistence. In other words, it seems to imply that asking God once concerning a matter is not enough - that we must keep on asking and keep on knocking until He answers. If we are His children, then why does He not simply hear us and answer the first time? Is it truly grace if our prayers are answered according to our persistence instead of according to His loving care? How do we reconcile this attitude with 2 Pet 1:3 that says that His divine power has already granted us everything we need for life and godliness? Thanks. McGracer |
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2 | Is the Law abolished or not? | Eph 2:15 | McGracer | 57718 | ||
Dear NASB forum, Jesus said in Matt 5:17: Do not think that I came to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I did not come to abolish but to fulfill. Yet Paul writes in Eph 2:15: by abolishing in His flesh the enmity, which is the Law of commandments contained in ordinances, so that in Himself He might make the two into one new man, thus establishing peace. The verse in Matthew says that Christ didn't come to abolish the Law but the verse in Ephesians says that He did abolish the Law. How do we reconcile these two verses? Thanks. McGracer |
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3 | Can we become more righteous in state? | Rom 8:34 | McGracer | 54250 | ||
Joe, If we are in a continuous judicial state of righteousness before God, then can we ever lose that state of righteousness or can we do anything to gain more righteousness that what He has judicially declared us to be? McGracer |
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4 | Can we lose our righteousness? | Rom 8:34 | McGracer | 54242 | ||
Dear Forum, If God justifies us "declares us righteous" as a gift, then are we, for all practical purposes, always righteous before Him or can we lose our justification? McGracer |
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5 | Can we lose our righteousness? | Heb 10:14 | McGracer | 54246 | ||
Dear Forum, If God justifies us "declares us righteous" as a gift, then are we, for all practical purposes, always righteous before Him or can we lose our justification? McGracer |
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6 | Are the declared righteous righteous? | Matt 7:24 | McGracer | 54226 | ||
If a judge declares you to be righteous, and gives you someone else's righteousness as your own, are you righteous from that point on? McGracer |
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7 | What is perfected for all time? | Matt 7:24 | McGracer | 54074 | ||
Joe, What would you say that Heb 10:14 means then? It says that Christ's offering has perfected us for all time (those of us who are being sanctified). If we have not been made perfect yet, then why does the writer say that we have been (past tense) for ALL time? Thanks for your input. McGracer |
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8 | What do the rest of you think? | Matt 7:24 | McGracer | 54033 | ||
Joe, I'd like to hear some other opinions on this too so I'll also repost this as a question. While I'm not the "rest of you", I wanted to share this verse: Titus 3:4 - But when the kindness of God our Savior and His love for mankind appeared, He saved us, not on the basis of deeds which we have done in righteousness, but according to His mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewing by the Holy Spirit, whom He poured out upon us richly through Jesus Christ our Savior. I see lots of instances in the OT of the Holy Spirit coming upon someone to enable them to do what God called them to do but I haven't really found any instances of someone being "born again" or of them actually posessing eternal life. This doesn't mean that they didn't live forever because everyone lives forever in one place or another. But Daniel 12:2 says that "Many of those who sleep in the dust of the ground will awake, these to everlasting life, but the others to disgrace and everlasting contempt." Everlasting life, for OT believers starts at their resurrection. We are partakers, not of everlasting life (life which has a beginning but no end), but of ETERNAL life, Christ's life, which has NO beginning and NO end, for He is eternal. I believe that this is what the writer of Hebrews is saying in Heb 11:39 where he says that all the OT believers did not receive the eternal life that was promised them during their life-times. But, in verse 40, we have received something better than they, eternal life - here and now in Christ. In this aspect, the OT was never made perfect - see also Heb 10:1. We, in contrast, posess eternal life - Christ's life - and His completed sacrifice has made us, from God's viewpoint, perfect for ALL time - Heb 10:14. What do the rest of you think? Thanks, Joe. McGracer |
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