20If they have escaped the corruption of the world by knowing our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ and are again entangled in it and are overcome, they are worse off at the end than they were at the beginning. 21It would have been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than to have known it and then to turn their backs on the sacred command that was passed on to them.
BY KNOWING OUR LORD AND SAVIOR JESUS CHRIST
What kind of Frank Gehry engineering does it take to make this mean they didn't know our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ?
knowing of Him isnt faith in Him
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romans 1
21 Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.
22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,
23 And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things.
24 Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves:
25 Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.
26 For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:
27 And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.
28 And even as they did not like to retain God in their
knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;
(knowledge of Him.... not faith in Him... these arent born again believers)
18 Little children, it is the last time: and as ye have heard that antichrist shall come,
even now are there many antichrists; whereby we know that it is the last time.
19 They went out from us,
but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us: but they went out, that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us.
(WERE NOT of us.... not born again believers ever otherwise they WOULD have at some point been of us and ....
IF THEY WERE OF US THEY NO DOUBT WOULD CONTINUE WITH US)
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Hebrews 10:39
39
But we are not of them who draw back unto perdition; but of them that
believe to the saving of the soul.
(we are not OF THEM that draw back into perition..... they arent born again believers)
