Predestination is misunderstood...

[Genez]

Christ is the Saviour, He does the Saving, The Gospel is Good News to whom Christ has saved.

He has done all that is needed for the saving of all....

After the Cross was finished? Every man has been saved potentially.
Everyone. Nothing more God needs to do to save anyone.

Only those who believe in Christ enter into what God has secured, even for every person who refuses to believe.

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The saying is trustworthy and deserving of full acceptance. For to this end we toil and strive, ​

because we have our hope set on the living God, who is the Savior of all people, especially of ​

those who believe." 1 Timothy 4:9-11​

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Hitler could never tell the Lord that he is going to the Lake of Fire because it was impossible for God to save him.....

God has cleared the deck for Justice to be done.

No excuses ....

 

[Stan_the_Man]

It does not say that we were simply chosen by Him.
But, specifically, that we were "chosen in Him."

What does "chosen in Him" mean?

Understanding that phrase is the key to understanding predestination.

It does NOT mean God chose a few and decided He wanted everyone
else to go to hell which is what the false doctrines of calvinism teach.

 

[Genez]

It does NOT mean God chose a few and decided He wanted everyone
else to go to hell which is what the false doctrines of calvinism teach.

Gosh..... you only read 1/4th of what I said and then decided to shoot......

You went off half cocked, sir.

Go try reading all that I said this time, please.

 

[brightfame52]

Denial seems to be your friend. Too bad you will still be held accountable.

And you are being held accountable !

 

[brightfame52]

Is it there nature that is spiritualy dead or the inner being known as a soul

Because there born spiritualy dead mankind was given a saviour.

Surely it's mankind nature that still has somethy in it that God still loves

Man by nature is Spiritually dead to God, dead in sin, no spiritual abilities. Therefore our only hope is if God gives us a New Birth.

 

[brightfame52]

So our feeling good about being saved is what saves us.

Try reading the verses I gave you please.

You cant read, Christ saved His People ! Thats the Good News

 

[brightfame52]

Yes he is which is why ....

Titus 2:11
For the grace of God has appeared that offers salvation to all people.

..... is freely given to all people so they may temporarily be free of their depravity and answer to God of their own free will according to their own true desires just as Adam and Jesus could answer to God from their own desires.

That scripture shows how Grace saves, its not an offer. Thats a corruption of that verse

 

[brightfame52]

He has done all that is needed for the saving of all....

After the Cross was finished? Every man has been saved potentially.
Everyone. Nothing more God needs to do to save anyone.

Only those who believe in Christ enter into what God has secured, even for every person who refuses to believe.

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The saying is trustworthy and deserving of full acceptance. For to this end we toil and strive, ​

because we have our hope set on the living God, who is the Savior of all people, especially of ​

those who believe." 1 Timothy 4:9-11​

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Hitler could never tell the Lord that he is going to the Lake of Fire because it was impossible for God to save him.....

God has cleared the deck for Justice to be done.

No excuses ....

Correction, He has done what was needed to save His People, they are saved by what He did and accomplished. Anything less is a false Gospel

 

[John146]

Man by nature is Spiritually dead to God, dead in sin, no spiritual abilities. Therefore our only hope is if God gives us a New Birth.

Romans 1 debunks this thought.

 

[brightfame52]

Romans 1 debunks this thought.

No it doesnt, if anything it supports it, after Vs 18 it shows the degradation of man by nature, the little natural light man has by nature of God spirals downward to gross idolatry and all kinds of sinfulness.

 

[sawdust]

That scripture shows how Grace saves, its not an offer. Thats a corruption of that verse

You cant read, Christ saved His People ! Thats the Good News

No-one is denying grace saves. What we deny is God chooses who will believe and who will not. He tells us to believe the Good News which is Christ's actions on the Cross and resurrection from the dead. That is the good news, that Christ is alive forever more.

How ironic, when Calvinists constantly like to say we make it all about us and not God, yet here you are making the Good News about your salvation instead of Christ's.

 

[sawdust]

Man by nature is Spiritually dead to God, dead in sin, no spiritual abilities. Therefore our only hope is if God gives us a New Birth.

If He does that then we are saved. No more is needed. Why can't you comprehend that being spiritually dead is the problem and regeneration is the solution. How can we be regenerated? By believing in the Gospel, the power of God unto salvation. Why are we saved at that point? Because this is what God has promised to do for those believing in him.

God does not save us to save us. You don't preach the Gospel to the saved which, is what you would have us do.

 

[John146]

No it doesnt, if anything it supports it, after Vs 18 it shows the degradation of man by nature, the little natural light man has by nature of God spirals downward to gross idolatry and all kinds of sinfulness.

Can man know God through nature? I agree, the more man rejects God, the less light is given. But God has given light to every man that comes into the world.

 

[Thunderrr-mental]

Man by nature is Spiritually dead to God, dead in sin, no spiritual abilities. Therefore our only hope is if God gives us a New Birth.

are you taking about mans own nature here, what made Adam and eve spiritually alive by nature before the fall then

 

[brightfame52]

are you taking about mans own nature here, what made Adam and eve spiritually alive by nature before the fall then

What difference does it make ? Man in Adam died, became dead because of his sin. Rom 5:15

15 But not as the offence, so also is the free gift. For if through the offence of one many be dead, much more the grace of God, and the gift by grace, which is by one man, Jesus Christ, hath abounded unto many.

Being dead is a hopeless situation, it takes a miracle of New Birth or New Life now. Why you think Jesus preached you must be born again ? Because man is DEAD, not physically, but spiritually, to God and the things of God

 

[Thunderrr-mental]

What difference does it make ? Man in Adam died, became dead because of his sin. Rom 5:15

15 But not as the offence, so also is the free gift. For if through the offence of one many be dead, much more the grace of God, and the gift by grace, which is by one man, Jesus Christ, hath abounded unto many.

Being dead is a hopeless situation, it takes a miracle of New Birth or New Life now. Why you think Jesus preached you must be born again ? Because man is DEAD, not physically, but spiritually, to God and the things of God

What difference does it make 🤔


Well if your basing a doctrine based of this principal it needs answering.

Scripture says man died in the paradise of the garden of eden died it must have been they died spiritualy.

So this scripture here that day we where chosen to be holy and blameless before the the foundation of the world


Has to mean we where chosen to be holy and blameless before the fall.

Where your belief says we where chosen to be saved before the fall.

So I want to address this main point first, before all other points.

 

[Stan_the_Man]

Gosh..... you only read 1/4th of what I said and then decided to shoot......

You went off half cocked, sir.

Go try reading all that I said this time, please.

And it STILL does NOT mean God chose a few and decided He wanted everyone
else to go to hell which is what the false doctrines of calvinism teach.

Man by nature is Spiritually dead to God, dead in sin, no spiritual abilities. Therefore our only hope is if God gives us a New Birth.

Actually that is not true.

God's Word says all have sinned so we are all responsible for the sin WE have done not considered sinful by the Lord because of the sin of Adam

We were all born in to a world filled with darkness and sin and we all at some point starting sinning ourselves.

That's what the Lord is holding each of us accountable for, not Adam's sin.

 

[Genez]

That scripture shows how Grace saves, its not an offer. Thats a corruption of that verse

The power of grace shuts up our nasty flesh so the Spirit can get a word in edgewise....

Its our soul that listens when grace is given ... Our flesh has been shut up while the Gospel is given.
If there was no grace to shut up our flesh? No soul could believe and be saved.

But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” ​

Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may ​

rest on me. " 2 Corinthians 12:9​

Learn something!

 

[Genez]

And it STILL does NOT mean God chose a few and decided He wanted everyone
else to go to hell which is what the false doctrines of calvinism teach..

That is still not what I said....

I saw Stan Musial standing at home plate during an all star game in 1964 while sitting on the first base line.
Never will forget it..

I was "predestined" by God to see it. I'm not a Calvinist.

 

[Stan_the_Man]

I saw Stan Musial standing at home plate during an all star game in 1964 while sitting on the first base line.
Never will forget it..

I was "predestined" by God to see it.

That's just speculation on your part.

Just because something happens does not automatically mean God wanted it to happen.

Some people think when their wife died of cancer at an early age and left them and their children without a wife / mother that God predestined that to happen.

Only calvinists and mooslims would believe that.

That is still not what I said....

I didn't say you said that.

A lot of people think calvinism is true in error, so that's WHY I posted what I said.