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1 | our 'horn' as the state of our soul? | Not Specified | jesusfreak508@aol.com | 58334 | ||
Our Sunday school class is unhappy with simple 'horn of salvation' definition (strength)presented by our lesson book. So I was asked to do research on the term. I have studied the roots and various verses and am leaning towards something else. Started with root word used in OT about Moses's shining face. Amused to read scholars at one time argued the scripture meant he'd grown horns. That shining lead me to other verses and all used the same Hebrew root "arq" for horn. Which is a verb meaning 'to shine'. Of strength, but also rays of light. Verse-- I can't remember the book but says, "hannah said....my horn is exalted in Your salvation". and Jeremiah 48:25 "...horn of Moab cut off and his arm broken..." The Hebrew of cut off is 'cut in two', 'severed', the broken goes to 'shattered', the arm is 'strength' or 'political or military forces'; so-- the strength of Moab was severed and his strength was shattered?'. Repetitive but have found alot of that in the Bible, but still couldn't get away from that 'to shine' and 'of rays of light' in the root Hebrew though. So I went to various NT verses that use 'light' (Matt and Lu). Found Greek word fwUV which root means "to shine or make manifest by rays". Same as Hebrew 'arq' used for horn. Psalms 75:10 says the 'horns of the wicked' will be cut off and the 'horns of the righteous' will be lifted up. I've always just read that as everybody having 'horns', but now I'm thinking each of the individual wicked has a 'horn' and each of the individual righteous has a 'horn', making horns for each group. So if the 'horn' of the wicked is severed (no salvation-no victory); likewise if the 'horn' of the righteous is lifted up (salvation-victory). Read that word for 'lifted up' also means 'raised or reared like children' and 'lifted off and contributed or presented'. Spirit was severed by sin, death. Likewise our spirit is exalted by righteousness, life. Our 'horn' by this verse will be lifted up--raised, like a child (infants in Christ); lifted off and presented to Jesus/God. (God's victory completed when Jesus presents everything back to Him) Psalm 18:2 and 2Samuel 22:3 both say God is 'the horn of my salvation'. The NT says Jesus is 'the light of the world'; both speak directly to our victory (God's victory) over death. My question: Could 'horn' be defined as our spirit or the state of our soul? Making 'horn of salvation' mean something more like 'our souls being in a state of grace; shining with the light of truth, victory, salvation? |
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2 | our 'horn' as the state of our soul? | Bible general Archive 1 | jesusfreak508@aol.com | 58348 | ||
Our Sunday school class is unhappy with simple 'horn of salvation' definition (strength)presented by our lesson book. So I was asked to do research on the term. I have studied the roots and various verses and am leaning towards something else. Started with root word used in OT about Moses's shining face. Amused to read scholars at one time argued the scripture meant he'd grown horns. That shining lead me to other verses and all used the same Hebrew root "arq" for horn. Which is a verb meaning 'to shine'. Of strength, but also rays of light. Verse-- I can't remember the book but says, "hannah said....my horn is exalted in Your salvation". and Jeremiah 48:25 "...horn of Moab cut off and his arm broken..." The Hebrew of cut off is 'cut in two', 'severed', the broken goes to 'shattered', the arm is 'strength' or 'political or military forces'; so-- the strength of Moab was severed and his strength was shattered?'. Repetitive but have found alot of that in the Bible, but still couldn't get away from that 'to shine' and 'of rays of light' in the root Hebrew though. So I went to various NT verses that use 'light' (Matt and Lu). Found Greek word fwUV which root means "to shine or make manifest by rays". Same as Hebrew 'arq' used for horn. Psalms 75:10 says the 'horns of the wicked' will be cut off and the 'horns of the righteous' will be lifted up. I've always just read that as everybody having 'horns', but now I'm thinking each of the individual wicked has a 'horn' and each of the individual righteous has a 'horn', making horns for each group. So if the 'horn' of the wicked is severed (no salvation-no victory); likewise if the 'horn' of the righteous is lifted up (salvation-victory). Read that word for 'lifted up' also means 'raised or reared like children' and 'lifted off and contributed or presented'. Spirit was severed by sin, death. Likewise our spirit is exalted by righteousness, life. Our 'horn' by this verse will be lifted up--raised, like a child (infants in Christ); lifted off and presented to Jesus/God. (God's victory completed when Jesus presents everything back to Him) Psalm 18:2 and 2Samuel 22:3 both say God is 'the horn of my salvation'. The NT says Jesus is 'the light of the world'; both speak directly to our victory (God's victory) over death. My question: Could 'horn' be defined as our spirit or the state of our soul? Making 'horn of salvation' mean something more like 'our souls being in a state of grace; shining with the light of truth, victory, salvation? |
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3 | sin of Adam in the blood? | Bible general Archive 1 | jesusfreak508@aol.com | 59051 | ||
It was said in this post that the blood of the mother never enters the blood stream of the fetus. Is that verifiable in a biology text somewhere? I find the speculation fascinating. I will not be surprised to discover it is true. After all the Lord told the Jews thousands of years ago to circumcize their sons on the 8th day, and it is only recent medical research that has verified that the baby's blood clotting factors are not up to full working capacity until the 8th day. I would really like a source to verify this biological assertation about "the bloodstream of the fetus", please. Thank you, Melanie |
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4 | sin of Adam in the blood? | Bible general Archive 1 | jesusfreak508@aol.com | 59078 | ||
Incredible. There in front of me all the time yet I never processed what the words were telling me. I've had five children. I did know I had a seperate blood supply from all of them while I carried them and I did know the placenta linked us while also serving as a barrier. Incredible. Beautiful. Wonderful. Thank you! God bless, Melanie |
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5 | sin of Adam in the blood? | Bible general Archive 1 | jesusfreak508@aol.com | 59094 | ||
where/which branch would you suggest I use to post query--specific query about "free will"? I have been perusing them from simple 'free will' search query and I can't find any postings that feel as though they would help me with my query. I am really studying this, and I have the Scriptures from all of the posts, but I am at the stage where I want to make sure I understand 'free will' before I start reading the Scriptures that attest to it (or not as it is also argued). Melanie |
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6 | sin of Adam in the blood? | Bible general Archive 1 | jesusfreak508@aol.com | 59127 | ||
Kalos, hm? God does have a sense of humor. I guess He thinks I need some more work in obedience. Okay. Here goes. Thanks, Melanie |
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7 | This is why...? | Bible general Archive 1 | jesusfreak508@aol.com | 59128 | ||
I asked where on this forum would be the best place to direct this post, and you were the where. Not exactly the where I was expecting. I have as it happens read almost all of your posts, so I have a good list of Scriptures. But before I begin studying them for application, I want to make sure that my understanding of free will is correct. If you would be so kind... God is the only one with THE free will. What I would have called 'free will' is actually volition. Choice, but limited in its very nature. Or limited free will. THE free will belonging to God, in which I have no free will (or even will??) has to do with God's Will of Purpose. (Or what some posts have referred to as God's Sovereign Will??) This will is immutable, unchangeable Will and is the necessary and the determinative. (God's Purpose/Plan??) Volition, or limited free will, is choice and it was what God gave to Man (in His image and likeness?-- like but not the same??) but it is limited to God's Will of Command, but I am having to stretch (w/o much success) to equate this to what has been called in other posts God's Moral Will. This is what God wants, but He is leaving it basically to us? (And if so, then is this why there is the argument that we do not choose to be saved or not, because this is more about our walk instead of our salvation?) God's purpose (sovereign will) is immutable, never changing, so only Jesus who was 100 percent inclined towards God's Will can share it (or does He have it also??) and even then He was still limited (as Son of Man) with immutable self-determination.(??) Our limited free will, would be mutable, changeable, self-determination. This being what was given to Man. Given with the inclination being towards God. And it is with the exercise of this changeable self-determination that we changed our inclination. Being inclined towards God was our nature. Adam as he was created, inclined towards God, was without sin. Upright or righteous, so more than just innocent. (So would innocence be that debated state of being created without inclination towards God or sin??) With his disobedience Adam changed (or would it be exchanged?) his inclination to become inclined towards sin. (So is that what sin actually is? Not so much disobedience, but more the inclination of our nature towards sin instead of God?? --with sin being the noun and sins being the verb; i.e., sin being a state of being and sins (such as disobedience) being the action within that state of being) By his choice though, we were left with our nature changed. So Adam, who was created inclined towards God in his nature, was created in God's image. While we, who descend from Adam, are in his image because we inherited his nature, inclined towards evil. Okay. That's where I am with this. How far off am I? Thank you, she |
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8 | Non-denominational theology? | Bible general Archive 1 | jesusfreak508@aol.com | 59129 | ||
I am a Baptist, born(culturally), and now baptized and a member of a Baptist church, but I am beginning to think I made the choice just because I was brought up in a Baptist church and don't really know alot about its 'doctrine'. I have posted a note in this thread to Kalos regarding my understanding of free will and would appreciate your critique as well, but once I am clear on that I would appreciate it a clear statement on where the Baptists stand (??) on this. Also is a tenet of faith the same as a doctrine of faith? Thanks, Melanie |
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9 | Non-denominational theology? | Bible general Archive 1 | jesusfreak508@aol.com | 59130 | ||
I am a Baptist, born(culturally), and now baptized and a member of a Baptist church, but I am beginning to think I made the choice just because I was brought up in a Baptist church and don't really know alot about its 'doctrine'. I have posted a note in this thread to Kalos regarding my understanding of free will and would appreciate your critique as well, but once I am clear on that I would appreciate it a clear statement on where the Baptists stand (??) on this. Also is a tenet of faith the same as a doctrine of faith? Thanks, Melanie |
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10 | our 'horn' as the state of our soul? | Bible general Archive 1 | jesusfreak508@aol.com | 59373 | ||
Thank you. Melanie |
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11 | past prophecy or future or both? | Mic 7:5 | jesusfreak508@aol.com | 59009 | ||
What exactly does this mean? "Keep the doors of your mouth from her who lies in your bosom." I'm looking here for knowledge as much as wisdom. What are the 'doors of your mouth'? Your lips? Your words? Does it have to be a particular confidence or is it anything? 'her who lies in your bosom'-- is that your spouse or your child? It seems to say a child from verse 6. And is Micah past prophecy and future prophecy? Melanie |
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12 | past prophecy or future or both? | Mic 7:5 | jesusfreak508@aol.com | 59015 | ||
Yes when you read it in that context it does sound very contemporary, doesn't it? In v9 it seems as though he is including himself in this 'universally unjust', but v8 seems to be he is saying he is seperate from it. Your thoughts? But am I also reading correctly in v9 that he is speaking, as a sinner, of Jesus? And is that where I am getting the part of it but also seperate from it? How does anyone study the Bible without a teacher? Melanie |
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13 | past prophecy or future or both? | Mic 7:5 | jesusfreak508@aol.com | 59020 | ||
I will tell you I was bred, born and raised Baptist in Georgia. I never had a clue what it meant to have a personal relationship with Jesus. Funnily enough it was my first husband, an Italian Catholic, who first brought me back to the Lord, and that because he had an even more anti-church bias than I did. It was okay for me to have a distance from church, but I loved God and he wanted to deny him completely. I decided to study Catholic doctrine to see what had pushed him to that extreme. I discovered it wasn't Catholic doctrine, but the treatment of it by his particular parish priest when he was a child. It took me 14 years to get him to accept that. And in case you're wondering about the ex-husband, the problem was adultery, but if I had been saved at the time I would not have divorced him because he did want to be forgiven. That was almost 8 years ago. Actually thinking about it, it was a Catholic priest who provided my next nudge (shove?) back to God. Andrew Greeley actually. I don't know how the Church views him, and I don't share his She for God, but his fiction work did make me understand that God loved me, even through trials. I guess that is why I have always had a fondness for the Catholic Church. But you don't have alot of them out here in my little neck of the woods. Actually I don't know of a Catholic church within 40 miles. But I was privileged to pray once at one of the side altars in Notre Dame in Paris. In any event I would have to say that it was Word of Faith ministers (as I've discovered they are just this night on this forum) who convinced me I'd better get my heart right with Jesus and put Him in control of my life. I am Baptist again, and Baptized this time, not because of any particular doctrinal beliefs, but because the church is right down the street and filled with about 90 (now) people who truly love God and each other. I am also sitting here laughing, because I have just realized that the soothing sounds on the TV that I have been listening to is EWTN's Our Lady of the Angels Daily Mass. I think he was singing Psalm 145, and now the priest is reading on John1:45-51. I do like to listen to mass. When I am agitated the way the Scriptures are sung while I am praying is like a balm to my spirit. Well, I went off on a tangent there. Sorry about that. I want to listen to the mass, so I will close. But would it be permissible for a Catholic to advise a non-Catholic on a Bible study -- course of reading? And be available for questions as I read? Thanks for thinking about it, Melanie |
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14 | past prophecy or future or both? | Mic 7:5 | jesusfreak508@aol.com | 59028 | ||
Thank you very much. I know as a Catholic you won't feel this way, perhaps that is why I would trust you with such a study program, but I don't give a hoot about doctrine. I want to learn the Word. I live in a very rural area where Bible study groups do not abound, that I have found yet anyway, and if this forum is an example, most Christians not Catholic seem to have some doctrinal ax to grind. I've got sucked into a couple of these doctrine wars and I don't like it. Was it Paul who said something like 'I know what I don't want to do, then I do it'? I have to thank Tim Moran and EdB though for walking me through to a place of peace at last with the last couple of verses of Paul that gave me trouble. I think you sent me the web site on deaconesses during part of that in fact. Thank you for that, too. I have been moving around the second link you sent me a fair amount. How I would love to be able to read some of the old manuscripts and documents! I look forward to your email of reading material. I am very good student and I love to read and learn. I am very excited! You are an answer to a prayer, Emmaus. Melanie |
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15 | more evidence(??) 'horn' is spirit | Luke 1:69 | jesusfreak508@aol.com | 58335 | ||
the Helper is the Holy Spirit according to Jesus. | ||||||
16 | Not my will? | Rom 5:6 | jesusfreak508@aol.com | 58346 | ||
I know this was a while back but I'm new to this bulletin and I felt like the one answer I could find to your question wasn't quite sufficient. Jesus did say "not my will but your will be done", but He was CHOOSING to take that path. That was His perfection. He lived His life in PERFECT obedience to the Will of God. If He had not done that by choice, you are right, it would have been meaningless. When Man fell, it was all of us by Adam's choice to not be obedient. When Jesus died, He chose to be obedient, which made Him perfect, and being perfect He was an acceptable sacrifice to pay the price for all sinners. He made His choice to give us, so that we could have a choice. Before His death and resurrection, we were all stuck with Adam's choice. We are predestined to glory now, because we have the choice again. We're right back where Adam was before the Fall. An individual, me, you, we have the choice. Jesus gave that choice back to us with the choice He made. You have to make to your choice now. God told Adam, 'eat the fruit and you shall surely die'. The devil comes along and says, 'you shall not surely die'. Adam ate the fruit, so who did he believe? Now you and I have the same choice, who/what do we believe? John 3:16 tells us the choice (whosoever shall believe in Him), John 3:17 tells us which choice God wants us to make, but the choice is ours. Hope that helps. Melanie |
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17 | Not my will? | Rom 5:6 | jesusfreak508@aol.com | 58421 | ||
Someone asked earlier where in the Scriptures it says we are given/have free will. That is part of my answer to you. Gen 1:26-27 "Let us make man in our image, in our likeness and let them rule..." We were created like Him. To rule. To rule you make decisions, choices. And He gave it to us to do. God knowing everything, Adam didn't surprise Him. He didn't sit there and say, "Man! All my work and now Adam has messed it all up! I need a plan." He had a plan. Jesus, as part of the Us, knew that plan. God sent Him, but He came of His own free will. Once here though, He was a Man. That was what made the sacrifice--- legitimate. He knew our authority and our weakness as His own. He walked the walk, and showed us how it was to have been done and how to do it. We aren't going to ever walk the perfect walk the way He did, but He showed us how. If He had no right given to Him by His Father to make decisions, what was the temptation? When the devil tempted Him, He was showing us that we should use our free will to choose to be obedient also. He showed us how. He used what He tells us to use: the Word. Temptation/the devil can't stand before the Word. In the garden, He prayed 3 times to have this lifted. He was sore tempted. He didn't want it. He didn't just walk joyfully to it. And you know He had the Holy Spirit there comforting Him. It was even worse for Him than any of us. From the Beginning, before the Beginning, He was God, the Son of the Holy Trinity of Father-Son-and-Holy Ghost; the triune God. Even as a Man, He was fruit of woman; not the seed of man (who just open-eyed walked into disobedience out of choice). So as such as He was, He was NEVER seperated from God, as we are, by sin. And He was God; part of the Trinity. Yet He was about to take on sin. Our sin, but still, sin. And when you are covered in sin, you are severed from God. What Jesus did is the equivalent of God cutting out His own heart! The devil thought when he got Adam to eat that he "would surely die", and really be DEAD DEAD, as in cease to exist. At all. He is a spirit creature. You severe his spirit and he is DEAD DEAD. But Man is spirit and flesh; when we fell, our spirit was severed from the Holy Spirit; again, part of that triune God. But when we were created that Holy Spirit was breathed into us, and that gave our flesh life; and became part of what we are. Spirit and flesh. So when we were severed from God, the Holy Spirit, we had this back up battery called a soul that was inside of us. Part of the spirit. Maintained by our flesh now. But if our flesh dies without that soul having been restored to the Holy Spirit, then our spirit truly dies and Satan gets that death he was after in the first place. Now we know Abraham was credited with righteousness because he believed God, but Jesus came along so that all people would know how it worked. Believe God, your spirit is restored, you don't die when your flesh dies. Jesus didn't just choose to die in the flesh, as the sacrifice for our sins, He chose to die in the spirit. He had to; He died covered in sin. For three days, He was dead. Dead Dead. And you think He wasn't scared? He sweated blood over this. He knew this was the only way, but He was still begging God to check just one more time, three more times, to see if there wasn't another way! So yes, I am saying Jesus had a choice. But I'm also saying that God knows everything. We don't know what choices we'll make, but He does. Just as He gives us the choice, He gave Jesus the choice. And He was in it. Not above it, not beyond it; in it. He knew what choice He wanted to make. He wanted to be obedient to God. He was determined to be obedient to God. But He had a choice. Read your Scriptures. Didn't He straight up ask Peter, don't you think I could call the angels? I could, means He chose not to use power and authority He knew He had. He could...but He chose not to. We can ignore the Holy Spirit when it is speaking to us. It is a Helper, as defined by Jesus Himself, but we're the boss. That's why we die. Unless we give ourselves to Jesus, making Him the boss. You call it "direction" implanted within us, the Bible says it is knowledge planted on/in our hearts. That's why if we choose not to believe, not to be obedient, it's on our own heads. The knowledge of the way back is there. Read your last sentence. The Holy Spirit/God influences us. If it was just about making us do what He wants us to do, He could have stopped this whole mess with Adam. He influences, persuades, convinces, convicts--but He doesn't force. That's what makes Him so particularly awesome, beautiful and wonderful. He is all powerful, but He gave us free will, and He sticks by that; He doesn't take it back. Which must break His heart since it means He's going to lose some of us when He loves all of us. |
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18 | Christ dying only for elect? | Rom 5:6 | jesusfreak508@aol.com | 58428 | ||
AMEN!!!! And why are we given the great commission to get out there and spread the Word? Why won't Christ be coming back until the Gospel has been preached to all the nations? Just because we don't know what choice will be made doesn't mean that God doesn't know what choices! From before we were born, He knew. He knows who will choose to believe Him and who will not, so it is predestined, but predestined according to His WHOLE PLAN. Spreading the Gospel, walking in His Way, those are part of His plan, too. | ||||||
19 | Christ dying only for elect? | Rom 5:6 | jesusfreak508@aol.com | 58467 | ||
You think Jesus made salvation possible for everyone, but you are still torn. Everybody goes to Romans 9 on this predestined thing. I get it, but you start from a paradigm that I can't fit myself into. I have no problem accepting predestination. Romans 9 is blunt. But Paul didn't know everything. Jesus said there were things that were only for the Father to know. I believe the Bible is divinely inspired and is the literal Word of God. I even think Paul was dead on in Romans, but sometimes he talked about things from wisdom and some he got out of knowledge. He obviously struggled with women throughout his letters. (I freely submit to my husband and believe that I should, but it's because of God/Genesis and Jesus, not anything that ever came from Paul's pen.)I know that God gave the seperate gifts of Speaking and Translating Tongues, so I don't have a problem accepting that the Spirit was giving Paul things he didn't have a clue of how to interpret. And neither do we. And are we not told this is the way God works? Starting with Babel and going all the way to Jesus who said somethings He taught in such a way as to make sure eyes and ears WERE NOT opened? As the song says, "God is God, and I am Man. I will never understand all the picture He's painting." I can't even see all of it. So, I accept predestiny unquestioningly even though it could raise questions. I don't have them because my starting place when looking at it is that, because God knows who will or won't be part of the elect, He plans accordingly. It's not that we don't have a decision or a choice, it's that He knows what decision or choice we're going to make. It's not all that hard to wrap your brain around either. I do the same thing with my husband and children all the time. I know them; I know what choices they will make in any number of given situations; I even make plans counting on that knowledge of them. Imagine what I could do if I knew them as intimately as God knows each of us. But I want to address the "...in light of ancient Israel of how God chose just one small group of people for His inheritance. Did all of those other peoples and countries die in their sins?" Go to Genesis 5:24 "Enoch walked with God; then he was no more, because God took him away." Genesis 6:8 "But Noah found favor in the eyes of the Lord" Then we are told right out that Abraham believed God and that was credited to him as righteousness. And these weren't perfect men. We don't know about Enoch, but Noah got drunk and cursed his own grandson (which curse God had already worked into His plan); and Abraham was fearful of earthly kings and twice stuck his wife out there as a sacrificial goat; word-playing on lies. 'Well, she is my sister so I wasn't really telling you a lie.' If not for God protecting her, Sarai/Sarah would have really been up a creek. So we know God did have relationships, saving relationships, with men before Jesus. And not just in the Seth/Noah/Shem/Abraham/David line either. Melchizedek is the perfect example. The proof that things were going on that God didn't feel like He needed to tell us. It was enough for us to know that it was going on, and He gave us that when He told us about Melchizedek. A King of Salem. Which as I understand it was in the area of Jeru-salem. Which makes sense. God didn't make Jerusalem His holy place just for the Israelites. He'd already claimed it as such, and He eventually brought His chosen people to it. Melchizedek was also the "...priest of God Most High". King and priest in one man. Something forbidden by God to the Israelites. Something that would be in the future reserved for Jesus. (Psalm 110). And read Hebrews 7:1-17. And verse 7 says clearly "And without doubt the lesser person is blessed by the greater." Melchizedek is the greater who blessed Abram/Abraham the lesser. According to verse 2 his name meant "king of righteousness" while his title (King of Salem) meant "king of peace". Verse 3 says "Without father or mother, without genealogy, without beginning of days or end of life, like the Son of God he remains a priest forever." So if you have a priest, you have a people who worshiped the God the priest served. Hmmm. Verse 4 says, "Just think how great he was: Even the patriarch Abraham gave him a tenth of the plunder!" To my way of thinking, there was a whole people who knew God and did not die in their sins under Melchizedek; there were also those mentioned in the chosen line; so since the Bible doesn't say "and there was no one else", I'm not going to assume there was no one else. Just because He was moving about quietly, it doesn't mean He wasn't moving about. Melanie |
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20 | Christ dying only for elect? | Rom 5:6 | jesusfreak508@aol.com | 58474 | ||
How awful!!! So you think John 3:16 is just bupkis? And the prophecy of Jeremiah 31:33-34 was a mistake? And what about 2Corinthians 5:18? I don't limit God at all. My Bible tells me that through God all things are possible. It also tells me that there is NO SUCH THING AS TOTAL DEPRAVITY AS YOU WOULD DESCRIBE/DEFINE IT. He who is in me is greater than he who is in the world. Wow! Suddenly I understand this Calvinism/Armenian thing and it ain't pretty, is it? |
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