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Subject: baptizem |
Bible Note: Shaul, There are a couple things in your post that concern me. Let me point out some of them. 1.) You seem to divorce faith and repentence from predestination. As if one could have faith and not be predestined. I get this from your saying, "If your Fathers Name was not Written in the Book of Life from the Foundations of the earth - his death bed acceptance is of no use." We can not divorce Book of Life/predestination thinking from faith and repentence. The two always go hand in hand. If one does not repent and have faith, their name is never in the book of life. If one does repent and have faith, their name is always in the book of life. Let me give a scripture to verify this. 2 Thessalonians 2:13 "But we ought always to give thanks to God for you, brothers beloved by the Lord, because God chose you as the firstfruits to be saved, through sanctification by the Spirit and belief in the truth." Do you see here that salvation through believing is the thing being predestined? God has not only predestined the person to salvation, He has also predistined the means which is faith in the gospel. These must always be held together. So if this person received Christ through faith, then their name is indeed in the book of life. 2.) Where do you get the teaching that what Christ said to the theif on the Cross did NOT mean he was saved? Nowhere does scripture say anything of this sort so what has caused you to state it so confidently? 3.) And again, you ask if the Holy spirit can enter a person in the last few minutes of their life? What SPECIFIC scripture makes you think that He can not? 4.) Finally, I have much to object about your view of baptism but that would go far to long for a single post. But in short, this notion of flowing water being required is an error, and the notion that one can not be saved without it is an error. I do hope the person you were responding to will see your errors and not be troubled by them. In Christ, Beja |