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NASB | John 7:17 "If anyone is willing to do His will, he will know of the teaching, whether it is of God or whether I speak from Myself. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | John 7:17 "If anyone is willing to do His will, he will know whether the teaching is of God or whether I speak on My own accord and by My own authority. |
Subject: What is preaching Christ? |
Bible Note: First let me say I'm sorry you feel the need to have such... hostility towards me. I love you brother, let us discuss these issues with an open heart. I thought I had stated what I meant, and gave scripture for the statement that God has made himself dependant on our faith. Maybe I forgot to hit submit, but let me just reiterate it for you, in case it wasn't actually posted, and in which case, I apologize. 2 Peter 3:9 says that God is not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentence. Hebrews 11:6 says that without faith it is impossible to please God. Because in order to come to God we have to believe that he is and that he is the rewarder of them that diligently seek him. In other words, if you don't believe in God, and have no faith in God, you can't come to him and recieve the salvation that he wants every man to have. So, what I"m saying is just this. If God wants every man saved, what is keeping every man from being saved? Why did the rich man end up in hell? Why have all of us known someone that died without a relationship with Jesus Christ and in all probability wind up in hell? If God is able to save any man, wether or not he believes on the name of Jesus Christ, then it makes him a very unjust God to let people wind up in hell doesn't it? In other words, if God can make sure a man enters into heaven when he leaves this life, without the man having to do anything on his own to get in, ie without having to confess Jesus, and have no faith, then and only then would God be independent of a mans faith woudln't he? But since God is willing that none should perish, yet to have everlasting life you must have faith, for God to bring you into right standing with himself you must have faith, to please the Father you must have faith, that makes God pretty dependent on your faith in Him doens't it? Hope this cleared things up! Mitch |