Did I mention Moses anywhere? and how do you imply that by me not bringing him into my reply I think he was lost!?!?! I mean really....Good grief.....how and why do you people do this!??!?!
Did it dawn on your thought process before making a false assumption and implication that I did not bring Moses up at all, because Moses was not in GB9's comments or had relevance to anything in his post?!?!?!
But if we must go here let's do it....Moses always had belief, he was denied access because he disobeyed a direct command from God and did something in his own power[did not speak to the rock, he tapped it twice] and then he took credit for the miracle..and he did both sins in front of the children....none of these things suggest he had a momentary lack of belief....
Ed, the dry bone sin Ezekiel are not the children that died in the wilderness...it was a Vision of how God was going to restore his people....
The Bible says it as plain as it can...the first generation died in the wilderness and did not enter in because of unbelief....not one of them had faith, but Joshua and Caleb.....This is stated in the record in Numbers and again by the writer of Hebrews in Chapters 3 & 4...Moses was denied for disobedience and rebellion.
Why does it insult so many people that God demands you stay in perfect belief, trust and faith from beginning to end!?!?!?
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Why do so many people insult God by stating it is his own faith, belief and trust that saves them from beginning to end?!?!?!
People seem to get upset that God is God....
Not quite sure what elicits such anger and multiple punctuations. The conclusion reached that the Children of Israel aren't saved, evidenced by the fact they couldn't enter the Promise Land, draws the point that neither did Moses.
Who's to say they didn't repent of their unbelief?
Interesting that Jesus Himself tells US how to be saved, by using the analogy of the bronze serpent Moses raised to heal, and save, the very SAME people you are professing as lost.
God told the people to go take the land. They had fear and unbelief. They paid the consequences of that fear and unbelief.
How many times have WE had fear in the face of doing what we KNOW is what the Lord wants us to do.
This really reaches to the core of this thread.
It is counter-intuitive for the human fleshly mind to SOLELY trust in Jesus ALONE, without ANY equivocations, for Salvation. But the crazy part is, and I have personal experience with this, when we stop "trying" and "striving" to do what He calls us to do, and realize who we are in Him, and see His Grace work more and more in our life, we NO LONGER strive to do what's right! Further, the lack of striving, results in committing far fewer sins! Counter-intuitive right?
It becomes part of our nature, and we WANT to please Him out of love and immense gratitude.
BTW. May we know your name? So we don't have to refer to you as Meggido?
...Because if they fall away, and come back, then they are crucifying for themselves the Son of God again...Those who stay in the faith all the way will receive blessings from God, but those that don`t will be burned in the fire...I am young in the Lord and learning, so i maybe wrong, just stepping out and stretching myself
