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NASB | Luke 16:18 ¶ "Everyone who divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery, and he who marries one who is divorced from a husband commits adultery. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Luke 16:18 ¶ "Whoever divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery, and he who marries one who is divorced from her husband commits adultery. [Matt 5:31, 32] |
Subject: Born into the Kingdom of God? |
Bible Note: "How about a different figure of speech?? You say Born into the Kingdom, and it's no telling what you might get. You say Born again, then just about everyone is on the same page." But it's not a figure of speech, Curtman. It's a clear mistake to think one can be born into the kingdom of God. So being on the right page is not the issue here. Jn 3.3,5 make it plain that one MUST be born again to see it and enter it IF one chooses. Jesus said "many are called but not many are chosen". Why? Because not many 'saved' people choose the kingdom of God as their of way; THE way of life, to LIFE. I personally wouldn't hold out much hope for such a one succeeding to the end embracing Christ only as savior without Him also being Lord. ----------------------------------- Heaven is a prepared place for a prepared people, like you said. Who are those prepared people? Try reading the 3rd chp. of John. the first 18 verses. Personally I believe it to be self explainitory, if not post your questions, and you will get an answer. It is self explanatory. The word 'believe', that we skim over, must be clarified to mean something that demands or requires an action. This links it inseparably with the word 'faith'; ours. This is something WE do that we may enter and BEGIN to see, the kingdom of God. From then on we MUST learn to live BY the FAITH of Christ because His Faith gives us the 'eyeballs' for viewing the issues of life from His perspective; i.e., from the kingdom. Remember the term 'eyesalve' used in scripture? |