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Everlasting-Grace

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You can lead a horse to water but you can't make it drink,

This means the horse already trusts you

Same as I already trust God's word and Cameron.
Thats good

But your still wrong about water baptism required to be saved, and that grace is not unmerited favor.
 

Mem

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so true,

I think of the man who the disciples could not heal his child. Jesus said if you believe. The man cried. Yeah lord I believe, help me with my unbelief.

Jesus healed his child anyway.
Indeed, and even if for that reason, in answer his prayer, "help me with my unbelief". That is, the man offered a mustard seed, acknowledging how little it was, and Jesus watered it. Certainly, it then grew!

Even so, I posit that the man did not walk away thinking he had been made perfect in faith already, but that, in faith he would continue in the process of growing into the image of Christ.
 

Everlasting-Grace

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Indeed, and even if for that reason, in answer his prayer, "help me with my unbelief". That is, the man offered a mustard seed, acknowledging how little it was, and Jesus watered it. Certainly, it then grew!

Even so, I posit that the man did not walk away thinking he had been made perfect in faith already, but that, in faith he would continue in the process of growing into the image of Christ.
Amen,, He left a babe, we can only hope his faith grew as he matured..
 
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Thats good

But your still wrong about water baptism required to be saved, and that grace is not unmerited favor.
Yes its normally the case that everyone is wrong and there right around here.

The word of God is not wrong, concerning water baptism,

Believe (receive) (be saved by faith have your free gift of faith refined).

be baptised in Jesus Christ name (in water) ( with the Holy spirit )

Be saved (receive salvation) soon after

This is not blasphemous.

You don't like it becauae you believe you receive Salvation on the moment of belief, correct.

No through scripture salvation comes after being saved by faith has been refined.
 

FollowerofShiloh

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I'll try another way. There are choices God has made for us. We didn't choose to be born and we can't unborn ourselves. We are made a particular race. We didn't choose it and can't undo it.
Does this mean our wills are inhibited?
Why would it? Just because God created you does not mean God controls you until you allow Him. If God is Love, which He is, then God desires to be loved. There's no "genuine Love" happening when you're forced to do it.
 

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oh here it is, Well thanks for your opinion.

The fruits of the spirit are seeds.

Because Jesus said if you have faith the size of a mustard seed.
There is no direct link between Jesus’ parable and Paul’s instruction. You have made up something from thin air, and you are wrong.
 

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Why would it? Just because God created you does not mean God controls you until you allow Him. If God is Love, which He is, then God desires to be loved. There's no "genuine Love" happening when you're forced to do it.
God doesn't limit our desires, but He does limit our ability to bring them about. In this way, our wills are limited.
 

Everlasting-Grace

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Yes its normally the case that everyone is wrong and there right around here.

The word of God is not wrong, concerning water baptism,

Believe (receive) (be saved by faith have your free gift of faith refined).

be baptised in Jesus Christ name (in water) ( with the Holy spirit )

Be saved (receive salvation) soon after

This is not blasphemous.

You don't like it becauae you believe you receive Salvation on the moment of belief, correct.

No through scripture salvation comes after being saved by faith has been refined.
John 1: 12 But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, to those who believe in His name: 13 who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.

John 3:
16 For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. 17 For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved.
18 “He who believes in Him is not condemned; but he who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.

36 He who believes in the Son has everlasting life; and he who does not believe the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God abides on him.”

John 4:
10 Jesus answered and said to her, “If you knew the gift of God, and who it is who says to you, ‘Give Me a drink,’ you would have asked Him, and He would have given you living water.”
11 The woman said to Him, “Sir, You have nothing to draw with, and the well is deep. Where then do You get that living water? 12 Are You greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well, and drank from it himself, as well as his sons and his livestock?”
13 Jesus answered and said to her, “Whoever drinks of this water will thirst again, 14 but whoever drinks of the water that I shall give him will never thirst. But the water that I shall give him will become in him a fountain of water springing up into everlasting life.”

John 5:
24 “Most assuredly, I say to you, he who hears My word and believes in Him who sent Me has everlasting life, and shall not come into judgment, but has passed from death into life

John 6:
35 And Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life. He who comes to Me shall never hunger, and he who believes in Me shall never thirst.
40 And this is the will of Him who sent Me, that everyone who sees the Son and believes in Him may have everlasting life; and I will raise him up at the last day.”
47 Most assuredly, I say to you, he who believes in Me has everlasting life. 48 I am the bread of life. 49 Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, and are dead. 50 This is the bread which comes down from heaven, that one may eat of it and not die. 51 I am the living bread which came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever; and the bread that I shall give is My flesh, which I shall give for the life of the world.”

John 7
37 On the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried out, saying, “If anyone thirsts, let him come to Me and drink. 38 He who believes in Me, as the Scripture has said, out of his heart will flow rivers of living water.”

Please show me where we are told to be baptized in any of these passage where Jesus told us how to be saved.. Just one time
 

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I don't disagree. It is applied in space and time. But it was already accomplished. In salvation, God reveals to the believer what He has done for them in Christ.
From God's perspective, we were in Christ before the foundation of the world. I make no claim to understand how it all works exactly. I don't understand what an infinite mind can conceive.
Yes, the elect's salvation was accomplished by Christ's death resurrection. But it needs to be applied in space in time -- which by the way will because God has so decreed it.

Isa 48:3
3 I foretold the former things long ago,
my mouth announced them and I made them known;
then suddenly I acted, and they came to pass.

NIV

This passage is one the reasons I'm a supralapsarian. :)
 

Cameron143

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Yes, the elect's salvation was accomplished by Christ's death resurrection. But it needs to be applied in space in time -- which by the way will because God has so decreed it.

Isa 48:3
3 I foretold the former things long ago,
my mouth announced them and I made them known;
then suddenly I acted, and they came to pass.

NIV

This passage is one the reasons I'm a supralapsarian. :)
Ok. I thought we already covered this.
 

Rufus

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no sorry that was preached to people going back to animal sacrifice.

The word impossible here is implied as this is impossible to get theese people to stop doing animal sacrifice.

Coming from the mouths of the saved Hebrew, speaking toward the Jews.
The principle taught in Heb 6:4-6 applies to all. Even to Judas! He witnessed a huge amount of miracles, truth, the power of the Holy Spirit, the goodness of Christ, etc. but in the end he rejected Jesus. And he could not repent! He doomed himself to unimaginable horrors for all eternity.
 

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Why would it? Just because God created you does not mean God controls you until you allow Him. If God is Love, which He is, then God desires to be loved. There's no "genuine Love" happening when you're forced to do it.
Would you consider the promised NC gift of the Holy Spirit and a new heart to be God's way of forcing us to believe and walk in his ways?
 
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There is no direct link between Jesus’ parable and Paul’s instruction. You have made up something from thin air, and you are wrong.
No i asked people for there thoughts on seeds, not for your contradiction,


Jesus is the sower who sows the seeds amongst the thorns.

ALso Jesus is the living water that lives in the holy spirit,

also Jesus is the seed that atoned the blood of mankind.

so no, nice try to aggravate me again 👍
 
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The principle taught in Heb 6:4-6 applies to all. Even to Judas! He witnessed a huge amount of miracles, truth, the power of the Holy Spirit, the goodness of Christ, etc. but in the end he rejected Jesus. And he could not repent! He doomed himself to unimaginable horrors for all eternity.
no hebrews 6 starts of by saying the jews where going back to useless rituals.

The hebrews, (saved people of God not Jews) where preaching against the Jews.

The hebrews where discussing how they could bring them to true repentance.

Hebrews 6 is pacifically for the Jews.

As Christians do not practice useless rituals, like animal sacrifice.
 

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God doesn't limit our desires, but He does limit our ability to bring them about. In this way, our wills are limited.
How so? Just because you get an unanswered prayer doesn't diminish the will to still want what you did not get. I would love to win a million dollars. God will most likely never let that happen. But I "still" want a million dollars. My will to have a million dollars has never changed nor diminished.
 
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John 1: 12 But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, to those who believe in His name: 13 who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.

John 3:
16 For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. 17 For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved.
18 “He who believes in Him is not condemned; but he who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.

36 He who believes in the Son has everlasting life; and he who does not believe the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God abides on him.”

John 4:
10 Jesus answered and said to her, “If you knew the gift of God, and who it is who says to you, ‘Give Me a drink,’ you would have asked Him, and He would have given you living water.”
11 The woman said to Him, “Sir, You have nothing to draw with, and the well is deep. Where then do You get that living water? 12 Are You greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well, and drank from it himself, as well as his sons and his livestock?”
13 Jesus answered and said to her, “Whoever drinks of this water will thirst again, 14 but whoever drinks of the water that I shall give him will never thirst. But the water that I shall give him will become in him a fountain of water springing up into everlasting life.”

John 5:
24 “Most assuredly, I say to you, he who hears My word and believes in Him who sent Me has everlasting life, and shall not come into judgment, but has passed from death into life

John 6:
35 And Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life. He who comes to Me shall never hunger, and he who believes in Me shall never thirst.
40 And this is the will of Him who sent Me, that everyone who sees the Son and believes in Him may have everlasting life; and I will raise him up at the last day.”
47 Most assuredly, I say to you, he who believes in Me has everlasting life. 48 I am the bread of life. 49 Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, and are dead. 50 This is the bread which comes down from heaven, that one may eat of it and not die. 51 I am the living bread which came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever; and the bread that I shall give is My flesh, which I shall give for the life of the world.”

John 7
37 On the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried out, saying, “If anyone thirsts, let him come to Me and drink. 38 He who believes in Me, as the Scripture has said, out of his heart will flow rivers of living water.”

Please show me where we are told to be baptized in any of these passage where Jesus told us how to be saved.. Just one time
correct those who receive him are saved by faith, but then they must be saved by salvation by being resurrected in Christ.

If you don't get resurrected in Christ before you die, then you can be resurrected in Christ after you die.

But seeing as the word is for the living, I would say it's best to tell people what the bible says.

Which is be resurrected in Christ. 😊

Before you die.

You may as well be telling people not to get baptised with what you've said.
 

Everlasting-Grace

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correct those who receive him are saved by faith, but then they must be saved by salvation by being resurrected in Christ.

If you don't get resurrected in Christ before you die, then you can be resurrected in Christ after you die.

But seeing as the word is for the living, I would say it's best to tell people what the bible says.

Which is be resurrected in Christ. 😊

Before you die.

You may as well be telling people not to get baptised with what you've said.
I was ressurected by Christ the day I was saved. As for all of the people who were in the passages I posted.

Your not ressurected when your immersed in water.. Thats nonsense. You might as well tell everything they must earn salvation by doing their works.. God gave many commands, we better obey all of them, not just one of them,.
 

Cameron143

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How so? Just because you get an unanswered prayer doesn't diminish the will to still want what you did not get. I would love to win a million dollars. God will most likely never let that happen. But I "still" want a million dollars. My will to have a million dollars has never changed nor diminished.
I think you just like being contrary. Read James 4:13-15 for an example of what I stated.