The neo-Gnostic spirit of New.Modern.Hyper Grace

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Bookends

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What does irrevocable mean? He told us in IRREVOCABLE.
This is how I understand it; What was irrevocable was God's promise to Abraham, that the whole world would be blessed through His seed to the remnant and gentiles. Christ and the blessings that come with Him are the gifts. And the calling of the gentiles to salvation. It's not talking about individual salvation.

The gifts are:
The Deliverer will come out of Zion,
And He will turn away ungodliness from Jacob;
27 For this is My covenant with them,
When I take away their sins.


30 For as you were once disobedient to God, yet have now obtained mercy through their disobedience
 

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Praise God for St. Jude's, and the workers and researchers at St. Jude's! I hear them being advertised, not sure where, perhaps on the Christian talk radio station I listen to occasionally. It sounds like he is in good hands, and your faith in the right place :) My closest sister has recently finished radiation following chemo after a mastectomy, and is now looking at a second mastectomy :(
So sorry to hear about your sister, but hope she will do well with further treatment.

We are so thankful for the excellent care that our son is receiving.

-JGIG
 

Bookends

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If 2 Timothy 2 is meaning what you think it means, then how did Peter end up being an apostle?

We endure because at the New Birth, Christ is IN us - that is why when we are unfaithful, He is faithful - He cannot deny Himself - we are ONE with Him. If we died with Him . . . then we will also live with Him . . . the New Birth - New Life - New Creation.
20 I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I now live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me. 21 I do not set aside the grace of God, for if righteousness could be gained through the law, Christ died for nothing!” (from Galatians 2)

Again, we always need to remember Who Jesus is, what He came to do, what that actually accomplished, and who we are in Him. Through that lens interpreting seemingly contradictory passages is a lot easier.

-JGIG
the bible throughout shows us how God is faithful to the unfaithful, it's not a pretty picture.
 
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Amen!..it always seems to come back to Jesus and what He has done in His finished work on our behalf!..He is faithful! He cannot deny Himself....nor contradict Himself either...which is one of the meanings of the word "deny"..in 2 tim 2:12,13

this same Greek word has the meaning of..even if you prove false to yourself ( like many of us believers ) do..Jesus will "contradict " that and remain true to Himself...He cannot deny Himself...

Thayer

B) - to prove false to himself, act entirely unlike himself: 2 Timothy 2:13.

Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament.

I thought that was interesting when I studied out that word "deny"...various meanings really it seems...

If 2 Timothy 2 is meaning what you think it means, then how did Peter end up being an apostle?

We endure because at the New Birth, Christ is IN us - that is why when we are unfaithful, He is faithful - He cannot deny Himself - we are ONE with Him. If we died with Him . . . then we will also live with Him . . . the New Birth - New Life - New Creation.
20 I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I now live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me. 21 I do not set aside the grace of God, for if righteousness could be gained through the law, Christ died for nothing!” (from Galatians 2)

Again, we always need to remember Who Jesus is, what He came to do, what that actually accomplished, and who we are in Him. Through that lens interpreting seemingly contradictory passages is a lot easier.

-JGIG
 
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Because if our behavior jeopardized salvation we would have clear, no non-sense,unambiguous language that told us that. It is putting a believer who is a part of His body in the Lake of fire for all eternity. BIG, MAJOR,consequences. God, who is just and righteous would not leave His Children in some constant state of confusion pertaining to His salvation.

Eternal life is a gift.

His gifts are IRREVOCABLE.

If we could lose salvation our God, the Lord Jesus Christ who is JUST and RIGHTEOUS would PLAINLY tell us we could lose eternal life, lose salvation, His gift is revocable.

And He NEVER tells us this.

but the pharisees of old would tell us this.
The bible does have very clear, no nonsense, unambiguous language that tells us that. He that has ears, let him hear.

Again, you're being seduced by a neo-gnostic spirit to believe what you believe.
 
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Gr8grace

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This is how I understand it; What was irrevocable was God's promise to Abraham, that the whole world would be blessed through His seed to the remnant and gentiles. Christ and the blessings that come with Him are the gifts. And the calling of the gentiles to salvation. It's not talking about individual salvation.

The gifts are:
The Deliverer will come out of Zion,
And He will turn away ungodliness from Jacob;
27 For this is My covenant with them,
When I take away their sins.


30 For as you were once disobedient to God, yet have now obtained mercy through their disobedience
Paul/Holy Spirit Clearly tells us in Romans 6 that eternal life is a gift.

Paul/Holy Spirit clearly tells us in Romans 11 that Gods gifts are irrevocable.
 
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Gr8grace

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The bible does have very clear, no nonsense, unambiguous language that tells us that. He that has ears, let him hear.

Again, you're being seduced by a neo-gnostic spirit to believe what you believe.
Eternal life is a gift, Gods gifts are irrevocable.

Where is the clear and unambiguous language that we or someone has lost the gift of eternal life?
 
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Give us the clear and unambiguous language in His Word, that me, you, or anyone has lost the irrevocable gift of eternal life.....please.
This is in the context of the verse you are referrring to (Romans 11:29).

For if God spared not the natural branches, [take heed] lest he also spare not thee. Behold therefore the goodness and severity of God: on them which fell, severity; but toward thee, goodness, if thou continue in [his] goodness: otherwise thou also shalt be cut off. Romans 11:21-22
 
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Gr8grace

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This is in the context of the verse you are referrring to (Romans 11:29).
For if God spared not the natural branches, [take heed] lest he also spare not thee. Behold therefore the goodness and severity of God: on them which fell, severity; but toward thee, goodness, if thou continue in [his] goodness: otherwise thou also shalt be cut off. Romans 11:21-22
Where does it say that the gift of eternal life is revoked in those passages?

Romans 6:23~~For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Romans 11:29~~New American Standard Bible
for the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable.

Remember, we are talking eternal death or eternal lake of fire for His "once" children or sons or His body. So we should not be able to question that God is going to toss some of His children in the Lake of fire.
 
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Gr8grace

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The bible does have very clear, no nonsense, unambiguous language that tells us that. He that has ears, let him hear.

Again, you're being seduced by a neo-gnostic spirit to believe what you believe.
And please quit equating me with the gnostics. Its just a distraction and the easy road to raise red flag's without really addressing what was said.

I was born again on 03/03/03 at noon walking out of my shop. not me nor anyone else is going to strip me of this truth. I may be deceived(yet still saved), but you have not presented any scripture or knowledge that makes me "see." And I am open.
 

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Well...if one isn't a legalist..it shouldn't bother them....I read Rob Rufus's book and he is referring to his dealings with religious people that were maliciously attacking and slanderously accusing him of all kinds of things that were lies......we need to read things in context.
In fact, Grace777, anyone who doesn't accept Rufus' version of grace is meant here. Read Chapter 4 of his book again. I read it just a moment ago. Nowhere in it does he speak of his dealings with people who "were maliciously attacking and slanderously accusing him". He writes about Jesus and the Pharisees and Paul and the Galatians "and the effects of the religious spirit in action". So anyone who does not accept his teaching on grace is affected. It shouldn't bother anyone who isn't a legalist, you say. But anyone who doesn't accept Rufus' view of grace is one, by implication. I accept that you have read and heard this man a lot, Grace. Perhaps you are remembering something he said elsewhere. Either way, none of the words I quoted earlier are exactly full of grace, seasoned with salt, are they? And Colossians 4:6 also applies to Rob Rufus.
 
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Here is part A of Rob's " Biblical Defense of the Gospel of Grace " ( which was done a few years before Dr. brown came up with hyper-grace term..)
Let me ask a simple question, is Grace7x77 saved? How can I make such a call or judgement? I know many people who I would call brothers, yet appear to have strayed. Jesus said if I believe on Him I am saved, which also means following and obeying. The work is dynamic, daily, active.

Now here is a teacher, who is pushing big time teachers who call this behaviour evil. In effect they are saying the church has problems because they are being obedient without the right spirit. You then find salvation is split between before Christ and after Christ which has always been an intellectual leap in our thinking going from one to one with Jesus to the whole nation Israel.

But I come back, to the blessing I have had from simple people just believing Jesus and walking daily in Him. Yet these people are called evil. The fruit here is not building on Jesus's work but attempting to pull it down for no good reason other than a conviction of a lack of understanding Gods love. Now I 100% agree, it is because of a lack of understanding Gods love, but it is not legalism that is the issue, it is in not realising they can change. The emotional buttons that hold them do not need to be there.

So fundamental is this poison, I do not see the Lord preaching it, but the enemy wanting to bring condemnation and not freedom to peoples hearts. How can a truly saved person deny such a fundamental part of the truth unless then never really had it in the first place. This will not bother them because they are sure they are preaching truth and we are the evil enemy who do not understand the unbelievable work on the Cross. But we do, which takes away the very proposition they are making. And we all stand amazed that these people have come from among us to listen to such a deceptive spirit.
 
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And please quit equating me with the gnostics. Its just a distraction and the easy road to raise red flag's without really addressing what was said.

I was born again on 03/03/03 at noon walking out of my shop. not me nor anyone else is going to strip me of this truth. I may be deceived(yet still saved), but you have not presented any scripture or knowledge that makes me "see." And I am open.
I'll do that as soon as you quit confessing what the gnostics believed, i.e., that a person's salvation cannot be forfeited based on what is done in the body. You've even taken it so far to say that a person can commit apostasy and still be saved.