What Changed?

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Rufus

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HeIsHere said:
Was Peter saved at the moment, born again?
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The text doesn't say. Why don't you focus more on what it does teach? It's crystal clear to me that Peter was a recipient of a divine miracle. God revealed something very special to him that he hadn't revealed to other people. Judas would be a great example of the latter.
 
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Ephesians 2:1-3 You were dead in your trespasses and sins, in which you used to walk when you conformed to the ways of this world and of the ruler of the power of the air, the spirit who is now at work in the sons of disobedience. All of us also lived among them at one time, fulfilling the cravings of our flesh and indulging its desires and thoughts. Like the rest, we were by nature children of wrath. :)
 
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BillyBob said:
What Changed?
Assuming that you are a child of God, What was the event that resulted in this change?
All people are conceived in sin and are born children of wrath, unfit for any saving good, inclined to evil, dead in their sins, and slaves to sin; without the grace of the regenerating Holy Spirit they are neither willing nor able to return to God, to reform their distorted nature, or even to dispose themselves to such reform.

Something had to change
Did you overcome this condition in your own strength, or were you drawn to Christ by the power of the Spirit? If you were drawn, were you able to resist being drawn?
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You do not even know you are being drawn when its happening.
We can only see that we were being drawn in retrospect after we are saved.

That is why men are free to reject if they should be so inclined.
 
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Genez said:
You do not even know you are being drawn when its happening.
We can only see that we were being drawn in retrospect after we are saved.

That is why men are free to reject if they should be so inclined.
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So how does that change anything? I never knew that I once lived inside my mother's warm, dark womb for several months; but does that mean I wasn't really alive? Or that I wasn't growing?
 
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Rufus said:
So how does that change anything? I never knew that I once lived inside my mother's warm, dark womb for several months; but does that mean I wasn't really alive? Or that I wasn't growing?
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Are you following the question I was answering to?

This is what I was addressing...

If you were drawn, were you able to resist being drawn?

Where you went to? I have no idea. Mind explaining?
 
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