Lordship salvation vs. "easy believism"

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OIC1965

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OK, let me ask you then with regard to the syntax of Ephesians 1.
Do you believe predestined for salvation before the foundation of the world is independent of a personal reception of the truth of Christ's gospel message?
I believe in election based on God’s foreknowledge.
 

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Do you believe in giving an answer to my question? Answering a question with a question is avoidance.
Excuse me? I answered your question. Foreknowledge is indicative of God’s Omniscience. That should tell you everything you need to know.
 

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Do you believe in giving an answer to my question? Answering a question with a question is avoidance.
The Jews were very aware of foreknowledge of God. It permeated the Old Testament. Since we don’t seem to study the OT much, we dont get it
 

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Do you believe in giving an answer to my question? Answering a question with a question is avoidance.
BTW, what do I need to avoid? I have answered all these questions numerous times already.

Election is God’s choice of whos, not what’s.

Election is based on God’s foreknowledge.

Predestination is the WHAT the elect are predestined to.

Before the foundation of the world is the WHEN this took place.
 

OIC1965

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Election is to service, calling and purpose, not to salvation. (Isa. 42:1; Acts 9:15; Rom. 11:28)
1¶Behold my servant,( SERVICE ) whom I uphold; mine ELECT , in whom my soul delighteth; I have put my spirit upon him: ( PURPOSE ) he shall bring forth judgment to the Gentiles.

15¶But the Lord said unto him, Go thy way: for he is a CHOSEN vessel unto me,( PURPOSE) to bear my name before the Gentiles, and kings, and the children of Israel:

And on and on and on and on and on ......
The first passage is referring to Jesus. There is exactly one place where eklektos is applied to Jesus in the NT. The other twelve times the word is used, it refers to believers

The second verse. Did God choose Paul to be a chosen vessel before or after he was born?
 

OIC1965

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Election and predestination are really easy to explain from the bible . They are both something that only applies AFTER conversion . Not before . Election = purpose and service. This is easy to understand. I'm not wrestling with anything lol . Its barely a thing , compared with predestination..Predestination is our assurance of our adoption to come . Rom 8.23 / Eph 1.5
Was Paul chosen before or after salvation? Galatians 1:15.
 

GraceAndTruth

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Justin Martyr mentions the gospels as being FOUR in number and quotes from them, also quotes some of the epistles of Paul and from the Revelation of John
Thank you.
Did you read this part?

The Muratorian fragment, also known as the Muratorian Canon[1](18:02) or Canon Muratori, is a copy of perhaps the oldest known list of most of the books of the New Testament. The fragment, consisting of 85 lines, is a 7th-century Latin manuscript bound in a 7th- or 8th-century codex from the library of Columbanus's monastery at Bobbio Abbey; it contains features suggesting it is a translation from a Greek original written about 170 or as late as the 4th century. Both the degraded condition of the manuscript and the poor Latin in which it was written have made it difficult to translate. The beginning of the fragment is missing, and it ends abruptly. The fragment consists of all that remains of a section of a list of all the works that were accepted as canonical by the churches known to its original compiler. It was discovered in the Ambrosian Library in Milan by Father Ludovico Antonio Muratori (1672–1750), the most famous Italian historian of his generation, and published in 1740.[2]
The definitive formation of the New Testament canon did not occur until 367, when bishop Athanasius of Alexandria in his annual Easter letter composed the list that is still recognised today as the canon of 27 books. However, it would take several more centuries of debates until agreement on Athanasius' canon had been reached within all of Christendom.[1](7:30)

Just as an aside. With regard to the Bibliography [1] reference from your source. Are you aware that Bart Ehrman is an atheist? Even though he is allowed to remain as the James A. Gray Distinguished Professor of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
First of all it is a late manuscript. Secondly it has (per Wiki info) 85 lines.
I don't know what your point is.
I just know the bibles we have today are probably the best translations ever.
I also know that God is able to preserve His word to His people and keeps His hand on those who brings them to us.

They were not left without resources.
Early church fathers quoted so extensively from the New Testament in their writings that it is said the entire NT can be reproduced from their writings alone. NT books were in existence in their present form at the close of the apostolic age (end of 1st century)

100-147 Justin Martyr mentions the gospels as being FOUR in number and quotes from them, also quotes some of the epistles of Paul and from the Revelation of John
150 AD Tatian’s Diatesseron
150 AD Itala bible the bible of the Baptists, first used by early Christians and Waldenses. Translated from the TR
157 AD Old Latin Vulgate (original Vulgate, not the corrupt version by Jerome)
135-200AD Iraenaeus quoted from all the NT books except Philemon, Jude, James, and 3 John
 

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OK, let me ask you then with regard to the syntax of Ephesians 1.
Do you believe predestined for salvation before the foundation of the world is independent of a personal reception of the truth of Christ's gospel message?
How many ways can I say.........saved by the atonement (propitiation
To be saved we must have needed to be saved from something.
the "something" is the penalty that God demand for the sin payment.
The propitiation made that payment. We are saved by the propitation of Christ.
 

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your wrong already,

the penalty of SIN IS DEATH,



again impossible, you need to study of on the Essence of God his attributes are perfect

his love Can not overrule his justice

His justice demands payment for the guilt of sin, that payment is death

his love can not overturn this, but it can make a way that satisfies its justice, which it did, he who knew no sin became sin for us that we might be made:righteous (justified)

his love satisfied his justice, but justification is not forced on anyone, it is given to those who believe

as perfect judge, he can not make one alive who is under the penalty of sin. This would go against his justice

regeneration Can not precede justification, gods perfect character and attributes will not allow it
I'd faint if you ever admitted you are wrong.
penalty of sin is death.........however we are born with the sin of Adam imputed to us......spiritual and physical death.
and that is that.
Your theories are so blanketed in various scriptures out of context its a wonder you even understand your own views.
 

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“ having predestinated” in verse 5 is an aorist participle following verse 4 which says that God chose us in Christ before the foundation of the world.

According as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world...having predestinated us (aorist participle)

The predestination MUST BE before the foundation of the world for the same reason sealing of the Spirit follows faith. The grammatical syntax demands it

You don’t even get verse 4 right, Why would I think you would get verse 5 right?

amen the proorizo - orizo...where we get our word horizon.......where light is separated from darkness
 

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Here is an example of unintentional sins, that God forgives whenever Christians sincerely repent of them:
Paul here - is describing the regular struggle a Christian has against unintentional sins in their lives:
Rom 7:20-25

20 Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.

21 I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me.

22 For I delight in the law of God after the inward man:

23 But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.

24 O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?

25 I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin.
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Heb 13:4

4 Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.
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Rev 21:26-27

26 And they shall bring the glory and honour of the nations into it.

27 And there shall in no wise enter into it any thing that defileth, neither whatsoever worketh abomination, or maketh a lie: but they which are written in the Lamb's book of life
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And here's an example of how God forgives the sins of all those who sincerely repent of their sins:
1 John 1:9-10

9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

10 If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.
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So there's a huge difference between forgiven sins and unforgiven sins. And between intentional sins and unintentional sins. One example of unintentional sins, commonly is in our thoughts. Our thoughts often displease God. But if we repent sincerely as of other unintentional sins - He always forgives us.
Not once does Paul indicate a difference between sins. It's sin - period.

Our thoughts often displease God. But if we repent sincerely as of other unintentional sins - He always forgives us.
There is nothing to forgive. Either all our sins were forgiven at conversion, or none of them were. Asking God to forgive us for our sins after being born again is ridiculous. He has already forgiven them. Why are you asking for forgiveness for what has been washed away by the blood?
 

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It does not make sense to me that repentance is not a change in behavior.

When our minds decide on something, it is prerequisition of behavior. If you decide to repent, but then don't follow through with any action, it is not really repenting. Repentance is a verb, not an abstract idea.
How much work needs to be done after conversion to prove one is saved? One good act a day? Two? How does one know one has done enough. or "proved" themselves enough?
 

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No need to ever ask me your question once again. The bible answers it as did I. You reject both. It isn't going to be belabored when you deny scripture.
You won't answer it, because you can't. And the reason you can't is because you are backed into a corner - thus, you take the easy way out.
 

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amen the proorizo - orizo...where we get our word horizon.......where light is separated from darkness
Paul uses this term PROORIZO in reference to God setting him apart to service in Romans 1:1 and Galatians 1:15. In Galatians 1:15 he said he was set apart from his mother's womb. So much for the idea that some have that predestination happens after conversion. God didn't suddenly discover that we will believe one day. He has eternal, perfect, infallible foreknowledge of all things.

But we're all, myself included, way off topic.
 

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Justin Martyr mentions the gospels as being FOUR in number and quotes from them, also quotes some of the epistles of Paul and from the Revelation of John

First of all it is a late manuscript. Secondly it has (per Wiki info) 85 lines.
I don't know what your point is.
I just know the bibles we have today are probably the best translations ever.
I also know that God is able to preserve His word to His people and keeps His hand on those who brings them to us.

They were not left without resources.
Early church fathers quoted so extensively from the New Testament in their writings that it is said the entire NT can be reproduced from their writings alone. NT books were in existence in their present form at the close of the apostolic age (end of 1st century)

100-147 Justin Martyr mentions the gospels as being FOUR in number and quotes from them, also quotes some of the epistles of Paul and from the Revelation of John
150 AD Tatian’s Diatesseron
150 AD Itala bible the bible of the Baptists, first used by early Christians and Waldenses. Translated from the TR
157 AD Old Latin Vulgate (original Vulgate, not the corrupt version by Jerome)
135-200AD Iraenaeus quoted from all the NT books except Philemon, Jude, James, and 3 John
Yes, God has preserved His Word, just as He said He would. It is a firm foundation.
 

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While sins are forgiven
Paul uses this term PROORIZO in reference to God setting him apart to service in Romans 1:1 and Galatians 1:15. In Galatians 1:15 he said he was set apart from his mother's womb. So much for the idea that some have that predestination happens after conversion. God didn't suddenly discover that we will believe one day. He has eternal, perfect, infallible foreknowledge of all things.

But all of this should be a topic for a different thread.
You start a thread on predestination and you will cause a riot! I don't mine a riot now and then. I'll be there!
Yes, without Paul there would be no Calvin.

These forums bring out the strange doctrines and a lot of misinformation that prevails in churches today.
That is why most 'reformed' gather in home churches of around 6 couples. In order to keep a church with all its expenses, there must be a congregation and congregations tend to have a few strange doctrines invade from time to time. It is also the place where a pastor must water down his message if he wants the church to survive.....and so a litle apostasy grows in those moldy sermons.
 

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Paul uses this term PROORIZO in reference to God setting him apart to service in Romans 1:1 and Galatians 1:15. In Galatians 1:15 he said he was set apart from his mother's womb. So much for the idea that some have that predestination happens after conversion. God didn't suddenly discover that we will believe one day. He has eternal, perfect, infallible foreknowledge of all things.

But we're all, myself included, way off topic.
This discussion would fit better in my Propitiation topic