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I believe that we are interpreting the scriptures the same way, except maybe for one thing, unless I am reading you wrong, and that is that our faith, which we receive by the new birth, has nothing to do with our eternal salvation. Our eternal justification(salvation)is only by Christ's faith and not ours, Gal 2:16. If I am wrong about your thinking, I stand corrected.
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By your comments and your interpretation of the scriptures, you sure are limmiting those who are saved eternally. I believe that his elect are numbered as the sand of the sea and the stars in the sky in number. There are more of God's children, born again, that do not have a knowledge of the truth than those that do, but all have eternal salvation, if they are of his elect. Matt 7:13-14, Both the wide gate and the strait gate are gates that God's children enter into. Those going into the wide gate are the children of God, born again, who do not have a knowledge of the truth and are going about to establish their own works of righteousness, such as Shroom is doing. Those that are going into the strait gate are those who have been revealed the truth by the Holy Spirit.
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If Christ died for everyone, and it is his will that everyone be saved eternally, then everyone will be saved eternally, but I don't think the truth is in these statements. Christ died for only those that the Father gave him John 6:37-40, and all that he died for will spend eternity with him. God accomplishes his will, Dan 4:35, and if it is his will that all mankind to be saved, they will be saved, but I don't believe that is his will. The God I serve accomplishes all his will, and is all powerful enough to do so.
Not true. God made salvation through Christ available to every single person who will choose to believe. Every person has to willfully make the decision to act on Rom 10:9. If they do that, they are saved.
He did that when we made the decision to accept Jesus Christ and believe God raised him from the dead.
He did that when we made the decision to accept Jesus Christ and believe God raised him from the dead.
...I've never seen so many Calvinists in one place before. Y'all think GOD HAS DECREED everything that will ever happen. You don't realize what God made each and every person. We are created in His image, with the ability to think, reason, express emotions,love, MAKE DECISIONS. We are free-will beings, created in the image of God. God made YOU responsible for your life. YOU are responsible for what you choose and believe. He loves every single person, and wants everyone to come to Him.
Calvinism sucks. It turns you all into a bunch of "robots for Jesus", making you not responsible for anything. "Oh, it's God's will, He is sovereign, we are not meant to understand why he decrees some to hell". What bunk.
Calvinism sucks. It turns you all into a bunch of "robots for Jesus", making you not responsible for anything. "Oh, it's God's will, He is sovereign, we are not meant to understand why he decrees some to hell". What bunk.
