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141 | acceptance of a person but not belief | Bible general Archive 3 | hopalong | 188296 | ||
Do you warn unsaved people, that apart from Christ they will spend eternity in Hell? Thats not condemning them. Its loving them enough to tell them the truth. Hoppy |
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142 | Why does Jesus come as a thief? | 2 Pet 3:10 | hopalong | 188134 | ||
I answered based on the totality of Scriptures that speak towards this. If you have a different opinion, that's fine. Hi Mark, Are Peter and Paul reffering to the same event? And if they are, to what event do they refer. The "rapture"? or Christ's 2nd coming at the end of "the age". I believe that this Q is at the heart of our discussion. PS: I try to not be hasty or blunt when I respond...but the pressure and demands of running a home based business, at times, forces me to be brief. Hoppy |
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143 | Why does Jesus come as a thief? | 2 Pet 3:10 | hopalong | 188133 | ||
I answered based on the totality of Scriptures that speak towards this. If you have a different opinion, that's fine. Hi Mark, Are Peter and Paul reffering to the same event? And if they are, to what event do they refer. The "rapture"? or Christ's 2nd coming at the end of "the age". I believe that this Q is at the heart of our discussion. PS: I try to not be hasty or blunt when I respond...but the pressure and demands of running a home based business, at times, forces me to be brief. Hoppy |
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144 | Why does Jesus come as a thief? | 2 Pet 3:10 | hopalong | 188113 | ||
Amen to that brother Lionheart! Hopalong |
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145 | Why does Jesus come as a thief? | 2 Pet 3:10 | hopalong | 188110 | ||
Howdy Mark, I'd lke to give you an aletrnative interpretation, if that's OK with you. Obviously Paul is addressing Christians, calling them "beloved". It seems that unbelievers are giving them a hard time by making fun of their claim concerning the Lord's return at the end of the age. Peter reminds them that Jesus is likely to return at an unexpected time, just as a thief comes when folks are least expecting him. The text indicates that this is a "reminder" to the "beloved". I read the chapter through a dozen times and found nothing that would support the idea that the saints were not expecting His return. If that were the case, they would have been fallen from the teaching of Peter. In fact, he commends them saying: You therefore, beloved, knowing this beforehand, be on your guard so that you are not carried away by the error of unprincipled men and fall from your own steadfastness, Hoppy |
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146 | Can you lose your salvation? | Eph 1:13 | hopalong | 187913 | ||
Dear lookn, I agree with both You and Psalm. Eph 1:3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ, Eph 1:4 just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we would be holy and blameless before Him. So in a very real sense , in God's mind, we were sealed! However, that "sealing was not made manifest til we repented an believed the Gospel. Hoppy |
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147 | Can we say Christs return is imminent? | 2 Thess 2:3 | hopalong | 187847 | ||
I must confess that i find Eschotology to be most difficult! Even within my own denomination, our scholors disagree. I pray that Christ will return soon. Hoppy |
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148 | What was the purpose of the law? | Gal 3:23 | hopalong | 187558 | ||
Thanks Mark, I do appreciate your willingness to to approch this doctrinal division within the church by actually giving thought to the opinions and conclusions of the opposing side. I was struck by thought that we all are powerfully influenced by our pre-suppositionns. Our proclivity is to read our Bibles in the light of our established doctrines. Oh that the Holy Spirit would give us fresh eyes each time we break open Holy Writ! After all is said and done, we must embrace the fact that we are fallible creatures whose only hope is in the grace of God. I wonder how often we actually pray for those whom with which we disagree. I have to get ready for work, but will lookfoward to continuing our discussion. God Bless, Hoppy |
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149 | What was the purpose of the law? | Gal 3:23 | hopalong | 187531 | ||
this is what happens when people ask vague questions, and the respondent has to take a guess at what he thinks they are asking. Live and learn is what my pappy used to say. Of course it nay be I'm just getting older and denser! :-) PS I would never intentionaly lead a child of God (or a child of the devil, for that matter) astray by twisting the Word of Almighty God. Peace, Hoppy |
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150 | What was the purpose of the law? | Gal 3:23 | hopalong | 187507 | ||
Hi Mark, "The Nature of Fallen Humanity This chapter explores whether the Wesleyan concept of prevenient grace can be supported from the Scriptures. Before examining this question, I want to emphasize that there is a significant area of common ground between Wesleyans and Calvinists. The disagreements that we have in some areas can cause us to overlook the extent to which we agree on major doctrines. In one arena of theology, namely, anthropology, the harmony between Wesleyans and Calvinists is of the utmost importance and our harmony in this area should be celebrated. Both camps acknowledge that fallen human beings are born with a corrupt nature that is in bondage to sin, and that human beings can do no good apart from the grace of God." To read more, go to http://www.biblelighthouse.com/sovereignty/StillSovereign.htm I hope to read more of this article after Church today. Hoppy John |
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151 | God grant repentance? | Gal 3:23 | hopalong | 187498 | ||
No Mark...the text does not expicitely say the that unsaved "cannot even bear listening to God's Word"? That attitude is( from my own experience) common in evangelism and was a generalization on my part. I apologize for not framing my response more fully than I did. Lookn's characterization of the natural man was (IMO) a grave underestmation of the condition of unsaved man. The point I was attempting to make was this ...apart from the work of the Holy Sprit, the unsaved (natural) man considers the Gospel as foolishness. That being spiritually dead, the person can only understand carnal things.And that, spritual things can only be believed by those who themselves are spiritual persons. Those who have the Spirit indwelling their hearts and minds. Thanks, Hoppy |
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152 | God grant repentance? | Gal 3:23 | hopalong | 187477 | ||
NASB: with gentleness correcting those who are in opposition, if perhaps God may grant them repentance leading to the knowledge of the truth, (NASB ©1995) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- GWT: He must be gentle in correcting those who oppose the Good News. Maybe God will allow them to change the way they think and act and lead them to know the truth. (GOD'S WORD®) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- KJV: In meekness instructing those that oppose themselves; if God peradventure will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth; -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASV: in meekness correcting them that oppose themselves; if peradventure God may give them repentance unto the knowledge of the truth, -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- BBE: Gently guiding those who go against the teaching; if by chance God may give them a change of heart and true knowledge, -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DBY: in meekness setting right those who oppose, if God perhaps may sometime give them repentance to acknowledgment of the truth, -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WEY: He must speak in a gentle tone when correcting the errors of opponents, in the hope that God will at last give them repentance, for them to come to a full knowledge of the truth -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WBS: In meekness instructing those that oppose themselves; if God perhaps will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WEB: in gentleness correcting those who oppose him: perhaps God may give them repentance leading to a full knowledge of the truth, -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- YLT: in meekness instructing those opposing -- if perhaps God may give to them repentance to an acknowledging of the truth, |
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153 | What was the purpose of the law? | Gal 3:23 | hopalong | 187464 | ||
Please Searcher, Tell me why the condition of the human heart has no bearing on our study of repentance? I see nothing wrong with consulting the whle counsel of God's word as long as it germane and helps us to know our Lord better than we do. Hopalong |
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154 | What was the purpose of the law? | Gal 3:23 | hopalong | 187463 | ||
What do mean Searcher? Jer 13:23 "Can the Ethiopian change his skin Or the leopard his spots? Then you also can do good Who are accustomed to doing evil. Remember my friend, salvation is by grace. Any correction would be the work of the Holy Spirit. Hopalong Hoppy |
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155 | God grant repentance? | Gal 3:23 | hopalong | 187460 | ||
Dear Friend, it appears that the "bone of contention" beteween you and I is regeneration itself. We both know that being "born again" entails a radical change. The question is at what stage of our conversion was our nature changed. From our studies in 1 Cor 2, we learned that the unsaved (natural) man is dead to spiritual things. To him the things of god are foolishness; that by his very nature, he is incapable of even understanding spiritual things. That being the case, repentance must be granted as a gracious gift to this helpless enemy of God. From 2 Tim 2:25, Paul shows that this helpless rebel, this slave to Satan, this man whose very will is captive to evil, is not beyond the saving power of God Almighty! For the Scripture proclaims:..." perhaps God may grant them repentance". Ezek 36:26 "Moreover, I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; and I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh. That is the kind of change that I was speaking of. That is the kind of change that changes the natural man to the spiritual man. Hoppy |
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156 | God grant repentance? | Gal 3:23 | hopalong | 187443 | ||
Dear Lookn, I beg your pardon my friend, but Paul goes a bit further than your post seems to indicate. Quote: "As I read it, all it says is that the man, as a sinner, does not value God's word and, therefore, rejects it because he has no spiritual apprehension of it's significance; that is basically it." 1Cor2:14 The natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him, and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned. 15 The spiritual person judges all things, but is himself to be judged by no one. 16 “For who has understood the mind of the Lord so as to instruct him?” But we have the mind of Christ. The unsaved individual ,not only does not esteem the God's Word, but he cannot even bear listening to it, nevermind understand it. Remember, we are speaking about a creature that is a spiritual cadaver. To his way of thinking, the Gospel is a joke; something made up by religious fanatics! I'm sure that in your own experience in evangelizing, that you have found youself, so to speak, talking to a "stone wall"! That is why we pray that God will change this person's heart! A changed heart will result in a changed will, don't you see. God bless you, Old 'Hopalong |
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157 | What was the purpose of the law? | Gal 3:23 | hopalong | 187397 | ||
Hi S, 1. believers (Faithful men) 2.in case that (Perhaps: maybe; possibly) 3. Rom 3:11 THERE IS NONE WHO UNDERSTANDS, THERE IS NONE WHO SEEKS FOR GOD; 1 Cor 2:14 But a natural man does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually appraised. Gen 6:5 Then the LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great on the earth, and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. I would encourage every one who is intersted in the condition of the unrepentant man, to enter "heart and "wicked" into the search box. It is breathtaking! It is absolutely ledgitimate to consult the whole of God's Word for further enlightenment Thanks Searcher, Hoppy |
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158 | What was the purpose of the law? | Gal 3:23 | hopalong | 187386 | ||
Apart from God's "granting" no one has any desire to repent. They are slaves to Satan and to sin. 2 Tim 2:25 Have to run... Hoppy |
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159 | Isdenial of concept of religion legit? | James 1:27 | hopalong | 187338 | ||
Hi Lionheart, I believe that there is but 2 religions in the world; one is a religion of works and the other is of grace. Maybe I'm just out of step with this postmodern culture. I have always believed that Christianity is, and has always been, the religion of grace. The True Religion which worships the True God. To be a religion it must have a statement of it's doctrines, doctrines that agree with the teaching of the Bible. If I say I have no religion then I must formulate doctrines of my own (not a good idea). Thanks, I agree with your insights on the question. Hoppy |
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160 | What was the purpose of the law? | Gal 3:23 | hopalong | 187326 | ||
Lookin, Thanks for your input! But surely, you do'nt belive that Paul was unrepentant do you? When Paul left Jerusalem he was breathing curses and bent on rubbing out the Christians in Damascus. After his encounter with our Lord Jesus, we see a transformed man. A man who gives every appearance of having recieved the indwelling of the Holy Spirit. Based upon what the Bible teaches in relation to repentance and salvation, I feel I am on solid ground when I say that Paul had been granted the gift of repentance. Forgive me if I have misunderstood your point. Hoppy |
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