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throughfaith

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Hi Throughfaith,


Why do you think that Jesus ”Die(d) to save” is not a Bible phrase or concept (your own words)?
Because that is not precisely what happened. Were you saved when Jesus died ?
 

BenjaminN

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What we regularly see is ' proof texts 'lined up one after another without any context, from different timelines , different Authors, different audiences, without reguard to before the cross , after the cross, before the giving of the Holy Spirit, after the giving of the Holy spirit , before the resurrection or after . This needs to be challenged. When someone bombard s you with a list of individual verses with ' buzz words and trigger words ,ask for context, check the context and everytime you will see it does not say what they are saying it ' teaches ' .
Salvation was determined to God's chosen, before and after Christ Yeshua's death on the cross. It was determined before Christ Yeshua's Soul's visit to hades to release the believers from hades and to go to the Paradise of His Father's Heaven that same day of His death at the cross. Thereafter, on the third day, Christ Yeshua's Soul was reunified with His glorified body at His bodily resurrection to this earth, before His subsequent glorified body's ascension to Heaven forty days later:

Matthew 8 (New King James Version)

11And I say to you that many will come from east and west, and sit down with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob in the kingdom of heaven.

Revelation 5 (New King James Version)

9And they sang a new song, saying:

“You are worthy to take the scroll,
And to open its seals;
For You were slain,
And have redeemed us to God by Your blood
Out of every tribe and tongue and people and nation,
10And have made [d]us kings[e] and priests to our God;
And [f]we shall reign on the earth.”
 

BenjaminN

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Because that is not precisely what happened. Were you saved when Jesus died ?
All of God's chosen was predetermined by God's plan of salvation of chosen humanity, to be handed their gift of their measure of faith during their lifetimes, to be drawn by the Father through the working of the Holy Spirit and by the price paid by the Son, and to be saved by the gift of the righteous God's merciful salvation, before God the Father, Son and Holy Spirit laid the foundations of the world.
 

TheDivineWatermark

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This is what it actually says .

3) Its From not Before . Huge difference .
CORRECT.

And (if we're talking about the same verse), it literally reads "slain FROM [apo]" NOT "written BEFORE [pro]"... the esv (and others) does not translate Rev13:8 according to the Greek.

Like you say, "FROM" and "BEFORE" (the foundation of the world) are INDEED completely DISTINCT THINGS, said of completely distinct items (and persons).
 

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48¶And when the Gentiles HEARD THIS THEY WERE GLAD , and GLORIFIED the WORD of the Lord: and as many as were ordained ( Calvinist trigger) to eternal life believed.

Notice who is ordaining ? Does it say ' God ' anywhere? ..Why would you believe its God when it doesn't say God did anything here ? THEY ORDAINED THEMSELVES to believe . THEMSELVES ..as that is what it SAYS !! .

It is God that is being referred to.. You can't ordain yourself.. or in English people now understand:

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When the Gentiles heard this, they were glad and honored the word of the Lord; and all who were appointed for eternal life believed.


It is God doing the appointing. The Lord.

You have both here - God appointing and the human response is to believe.
 

BenjaminN

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It is God that is being referred to.. You can't ordain yourself.. or in English people now understand:

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When the Gentiles heard this, they were glad and honored the word of the Lord; and all who were appointed for eternal life believed.


It is God doing the appointing. The Lord.

You have both here - God appointing and the human response is to believe.
Agreed, ALL GLORY for chosen humanity's salvation GOES TO righteous, merciful GOD, AND to GOD THE FATHER, SON AND HOLY SPIRIT ALONE, not to any man's notion of his own fallible belief system, that might be a belief today, but not a belief tomorrow.

Romans 9 (New King James Version)

22What if God, wanting to show His wrath and to make His power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath prepared for destruction, 23and that He might make known the riches of His glory on the vessels of mercy, which He had prepared beforehand for glory, 24even us whom He called, not of the Jews only, but also of the Gentiles?
 

phil36

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Because that is not precisely what happened. Were you saved when Jesus died ?

Of course it is:

Matthew 20:28
Even as the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”



Romans 5:8
But God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.


so how can you say this:

That Jesus ”Die(d) to save” is not a Bible phrase or concept (your own words)?


Are you not one of the many????
 

BenjaminN

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If God's chosen people's salvation was to be determined by their own fallible, changeable belief system, it would not have been a certain salvation as determined by God, but a man-made salvation that could vanish in thin air, unlike the eternal gift of salvation from God the Father, Son and Holy Spirit, through God's eternal gift of faith for His eternally chosen people FROM God's foundation of the world:

Matthew 13 (New King James Version)

20But he who received the seed on stony places, this is he who hears the word and immediately receives it with joy; 21yet he has no root in himself, but endures only for a while. For when tribulation or persecution arises because of the word, immediately he stumbles.
 

throughfaith

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CORRECT.

And (if we're talking about the same verse), it literally reads "slain FROM [apo]" NOT "written BEFORE [pro]"... the esv (and others) does not translate Rev13:8 according to the Greek.

Like you say, "FROM" and "BEFORE" (the foundation of the world) are INDEED completely DISTINCT THINGS, said of completely distinct items (and persons).
Amen .
 

throughfaith

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It is God that is being referred to.. You can't ordain yourself.. or in English people now understand:

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When the Gentiles heard this, they were glad and honored the word of the Lord; and all who were appointed for eternal life believed.


It is God doing the appointing. The Lord.

You have both here - God appointing and the human response is to believe.
Where is " God ' in that verse please?
 

throughfaith

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It is God that is being referred to.. You can't ordain yourself.. or in English people now understand:

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When the Gentiles heard this, they were glad and honored the word of the Lord; and all who were appointed for eternal life believed.


It is God doing the appointing. The Lord.

You have both here - God appointing and the human response is to believe.
Tasso .
Ordained .
Outline of Biblical Usage:
  1. to put in order, to station
    1. to place in a certain order, to arrange, to assign a place, to appoint
      1. to assign (appoint) a thing to one
    2. to appoint, ordain, order
      1. to appoint on one's own responsibility or authority
      2. to appoint mutually, i.e. agree upon
 

throughfaith

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Of course it is:

Matthew 20:28
Even as the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”



Romans 5:8
But God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.


so how can you say this:

That Jesus ”Die(d) to save” is not a Bible phrase or concept (your own words)?


Are you not one of the many????
' Died ....to....save ' Anywhere ? Yes he died for our sins and not our sins only ,but the sins of the whole world. This is not ' died to save ' .No one was saved when he did this .
 

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Tasso .
Ordained .
Outline of Biblical Usage:
  1. to put in order, to station
    1. to place in a certain order, to arrange, to assign a place, to appoint
      1. to assign (appoint) a thing to one
    2. to appoint, ordain, order
      1. to appoint on one's own responsibility or authority
      2. to appoint mutually, i.e. agree upon

Hi throughfaith,

Thanks for the meaning of ordained. I am sure we are all aware of what the word means. However, we are discussing who does the ordaining. Scripture is very clear it is the Lord God.

As I previously stated:

It is God that is being referred to.. You can't ordain yourself.. or in English people now understand:

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When the Gentiles heard this, they were glad and honored the word of the Lord; and all who were appointed for eternal life believed.


It is God doing the appointing. The Lord.

You have both here - God appointing and the human response is to believe.
 

throughfaith

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Hi throughfaith,

Thanks for the meaning of ordained. I am sure we are all aware of what the word means. However, we are discussing who does the ordaining. Scripture is very clear it is the Lord God.

As I previously stated:

It is God that is being referred to.. You can't ordain yourself.. or in English people now understand:

New International Version
When the Gentiles heard this, they were glad and honored the word of the Lord; and all who were appointed for eternal life believed.


It is God doing the appointing. The Lord.

You have both here - God appointing and the human response is to believe.
Could you show where it says God ordained them please ? , I.ll wait .
What it SAYS is THEY chose to hear the word of the Lord . The whole chapter is THEM choosing and the Jews not choosing .
 

throughfaith

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Hi throughfaith,

Thanks for the meaning of ordained. I am sure we are all aware of what the word means. However, we are discussing who does the ordaining. Scripture is very clear it is the Lord God.

As I previously stated:

It is God that is being referred to.. You can't ordain yourself.. or in English people now understand:

New International Version
When the Gentiles heard this, they were glad and honored the word of the Lord; and all who were appointed for eternal life believed.


It is God doing the appointing. The Lord.

You have both here - God appointing and the human response is to believe.
Can anyone else notice why calvinists don't believe what the verses actually SAY but rather what they believe the verse TEACHES ?
 

TheDivineWatermark

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Could you show where it says God ordained them please ? , I.ll wait .
What it SAYS is THEY chose to hear the word of the Lord . The whole chapter is THEM choosing and the Jews not choosing .
Agreed.

That is indeed the CONTEXT.





And the definition you had supplied works with either the Middle Voice or the Passive Voice, which are the choices showing here, in the verse: Acts 13:48 Greek Text Analysis (biblehub.com)
 

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Could you show where it says God ordained them please ? , I.ll wait .
What it SAYS is THEY chose to hear the word of the Lord . The whole chapter is THEM choosing and the Jews not choosing .

I already have.. post #765 and #773
 

throughfaith

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Hi throughfaith,

Thanks for the meaning of ordained. I am sure we are all aware of what the word means. However, we are discussing who does the ordaining. Scripture is very clear it is the Lord God.

As I previously stated:

It is God that is being referred to.. You can't ordain yourself.. or in English people now understand:

New International Version
When the Gentiles heard this, they were glad and honored the word of the Lord; and all who were appointed for eternal life believed.


It is God doing the appointing. The Lord.

You have both here - God appointing and the human response is to believe.
God is not mentioned. Your assuming without justification.
 

throughfaith

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I already have.. post #765 and #773
46Then Paul and Barnabas waxed bold, and said, It was necessary that the WORD OF GOD should first have been SPOKEN to you: but seeing ye put it from you, and judge yourselves unworthy of everlasting life, lo, we turn to the Gentiles.

47For so hath the Lord commanded us, saying, I have set thee to be a light of the Gentiles, that thou shouldest be for salvation unto the ends of the earth.

48¶And when the Gentiles HEARD this, they were glad, and glorified the word of the Lord: and as many as were ordained to eternal life believed.

49¶And the word of the Lord was published throughout all the region.

Could you highlight where it SAYS 'God ' ordained them please ?