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1 | Please provide responses to these verses | Luke 8:13 | ne14pool | 89315 | ||
NC, You won't be surprised that I totally disagree with Adam Clarke's exposition of John 15:6. It is clear Clarke interprets this judgement (casting into the fire) as the judgement for the sins of non-believers and those who could not muster up enough faith of their own. This is an unbiblical view and I totally disagree with this interpretation. As you are already aware, I believe this is the judgement of believers. It is not the judgement for their sins, but for their works. I think it is unfortunate that you feel that within yourself you had to do something to gain eternal life. You must believe this, if you feel you can do something to lose it. But eternal life is not YOUR work. It is the Work of God, within you. I have some challenges for you: I would like you to give me your perspective on the following verses which strongly support eternal security. Jer 32:40 I will make an everlasting covenant with them: I will never stop doing good to them, and I will inspire them to fear me, so that they will never turn away from me. NOTICE: ...so they will never turn away from me. What's your view on this verse? Here is another one for you: John 6:35-40 Then Jesus declared, "I am the bread of life. He who comes to me will never go hungry, and he who believes in me will never be thirsty. But as I told you, you have seen me and still you do not believe. All that the Father gives me will come to me, and whoever comes to me I will never drive away. For I have come down from heaven not to do my will but to do the will of him who sent me. And this is the will of him who sent me, that I shall lose none of all that he has given me, but raise them up at the last day. For my Father's will is that everyone who looks to the Son and believes in him shall have eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day." WHAT DID JESUS MEAN WHEN HE SAID, "I shall not lose none of them that he has given me"? Here is another verse that I would like to hear your views on: Jude 1:24 To him who is able to keep you from falling and to present you before his glorious presence without fault and with great joy-- NOTE: To say that we can fall from grace is to say that God is not able to keep us from falling… That is unbiblical. It contradicts Jude 1:24. I look forward to your responses for the verses provided above. Thanks…. In Christ….Doug |
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2 | What do you mean by "initiated"? | Luke 8:13 | ne14pool | 89020 | ||
New Creature, You said, "God authored and initiated your salvation". What do you mean that He "initiated" your salvation? Webster defines initiated as, to cause or facilitate the beginning of. Hebrews 12:2 tells us that Jesus is the author and finisher of our faith, NOT the author and initiator of our faith. The actual greek work for finisher carries with it the meaning "completer". Then Jonah 2:9 tells us that Salvation is of the Lord? Then in John 6:37, Jesus said, "All that the Father gives me will come to me.." It doesn't say, "All the Father gives me will come to me if they decide in their own freewill to come to me, after God has initiated their faith. If that were the case then we would have something to boast about before God. We then could say to God when we meet him face to face, well you know God, I could have rejected you like my non-believing neighbor did, but I accepted you. Once again who made you different from the non-believer? Wasn't it God who opened your eyes and began and is finishing the work of faith in you. No where does scripture say that he grants faith to every person. God gives the gift of faith to only those that were given to Him by the Father. All that were given this faith WILL come to Him. Now if God is the author and finisher of our faith, then to say that someone could leave the faith is to say God didn't finish the work of faith begun in that person. That goes directly against Hebrew 12:2. How can you argue against Hebrews 12:2? How can you agrue against John 10:28-29 Where Jesus said, "I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish; no one can snatch them out of my hand. My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all; no one can snatch them out of my Father's hand. You see, those GIVEN to Jesus can not perish, or be snatched out of Jesus hand, or snatched from the Father's hand. All the Father gives Jesus WILL come to Him. They will never be taken from Him, they are given ETERNAL life! Sorry I get very excited about this. It is an awesome comfort to know that I am Eternally secure. I pray that God will grant you that same comfort! For I know that it is not I or any other man that can "convince" you of that salvation can NOT be forfeited. But it will be the Holy Spirit of God that will convince you using his Word. I am certain that if you would go back and review all the scripture references and the points that many have so clearly provided to you and you prayed that God would open your eyes to what is true about eternal security, then I believe God will open your eyes to this wonderful truth! The truth will then set you free from the fear of losing your salvation. Secure in Christ...Doug |
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3 | Where did your faith come from? | Luke 8:13 | ne14pool | 88960 | ||
Hello New Creature, I was curious as to where you believe your faith in Christ came from? Is it your own faith you mustered up with God's help or was it given to you as a gift from God (Eph 2:8-9) Was it granted (given as a gift of God's grace) to you? (Phil 1:29) Just curious where you feel your faith comes from? Remember what Paul says in 1 Cor 4:7 For who makes you different from anyone else? What do you have that you did not receive? And if you did receive it, why do you boast as though you did not? (NIV) Then also recall what it says in James 1:17 Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, who does not change like shifting shadows. (NIV) If faith is a gift of God, then it came from Him. So I would be interested to know where you believe your faith came from? Now if you agree it was a act of God's grace to give you faith, by that faith God delivered to you his grace. Then our faith was the work of God and that can not fail. Since he is the author and finisher of our faith? He started the book of faith in our lives and he will finish it! Now if we did not do anything to earn this faith, then we can do nothing to lose it. But if we truely possess this saving faith, then how could we possibly do anything to lose it, when we did nothing to gain it? In Christ...Doug |
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4 | Regeneration proceeds Faith? | Bible general Archive 1 | ne14pool | 88439 | ||
Can anyone provide me with some Scripture verses that support the doctrine that regeneration proceeds faith? | ||||||
5 | Are those drawn 2 Christ raised to life? | Rev 13:8 | ne14pool | 88408 | ||
Tim, You had said, that If Christ did not draw, no one could be saved. Which I agree with. Then you went on to quote John 12:32 which says that Christ will draw all men to Himself when He is lifted up. Which I interpret to mean men of "all types" (Jew and Gentile) not all men individually but collectively. I say that because if you believe that Christ draws all men to himself, then all men must be saved because in John 6:44 Jesus proclaimed that "No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him, and I will raise him up at the last day. Notice that same one that is drawn by the Father is also raised up on the last day. Keep in mind the context of this verse, it is salvation. So if you hold to the belief that God draws all men (individually to himself, then you must also believe that those that are drawn will be raised to eternal life with God (John 6:44) In Christ...Doug |
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6 | Doesn't this seem like a contradiction? | Rev 13:8 | ne14pool | 88397 | ||
Tim, Thanks for posting these verses. From these verses it appears that both God and Pharaoh harden Pharaoh's heart? Seems like a contradiction. Doesn't it? In Christ...Doug |
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7 | Who hardened Pharaoh's heart? | Rev 13:8 | ne14pool | 88396 | ||
Hank, Just because I am asking for your view on this issue doesn't imply that I feel you are ignorant or naive. By no means. I truly am seeking information on what you believe regarding the hardening of Pharoah's heart? Please share with me your view. Thanks.. | ||||||
8 | Who hardened Pharaoh's heart? | Rev 13:8 | ne14pool | 88301 | ||
Hank, I have a question for you. Who hardened Pharaoh's heart? Was it God or was it Pharaoh himself? In Christ...Doug |
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9 | Was it our choice to be born physically? | Rev 13:8 | ne14pool | 88300 | ||
Tim, In your response, you mentioned that you can not choose where to be born. How true! Not only did we not play a role in where we would be born, but we didn't play a role in our birth. The same principle that applies to our physical birth also applies to our spiritual birth. It was not our choice, but God choose us to be born of the Spirit! Just as Jesus told Nicodemus in John 3. Jesus declared to him "I tell you the truth, no one can see the kingdom of God unless he is born again." (born from above) Nicodemus took Jesus literally and asked, "How can a man be born when he is old?" Nicodemus asked. "Surely he cannot enter a second time into his mother's womb to be born!" Jesus answered, "I tell you the truth, no one can enter the kingdom of God unless he is born of water and the Spirit. Flesh gives birth to flesh, but the Spirit gives birth to spirit. God determined that we would be born spiritually, it was no more our choice that it was our choice to be physically born. That is why Jesus said to his disciples in John 15:16. You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you to go and bear fruit-- fruit that will last. Then the Father will give you whatever you ask in my name. Then in John 1:12-13 it says "Yet to all who received him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God--children born not of natural descent, nor of human decision or a husband's will, but born of God. Note: Not a human decision or a husband's will, but born of God. Then in speaking of the Sovereignty of God in choosing who he will, it says in Rom 9:16 "It does not, therefore, depend on man's desire or effort, but on God's mercy." It wasn't your desire or effort to seek God. But it was God who by His Spirit caused you to be born from above and he caused your Spirit to awake from the dead and He opened your eyes to the truth. Then we beheld Christ and His wonderful work upon the Cross and we believe the good news of what he did for us. While we thought it was our faith we mustered up, all the while it was God that was working in us to draw us to Himself. Because we were enabled by God to come to Christ. We were the love gift that was given to Christ before the foundation of the World. Once we were awaken by God spiritually we then fixed our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy set before him (that is us - His bride) endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. I don't mean to ramble on, but I couldn't help in when you mentioned we don't choose our place of birth... That comment triggered all this... Take care and may God continue to bless you richly! In Christ...Doug |
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