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Lamar

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The arrogance is you thinking you can work your way to salvation.
I do not believe anyone can work their way to salvation. Your insistence that I believe otherwise is arrogant.

Works of obedience are not works of merit.
Works of obedience are out of a humble and submissive heart.
 

NightTwister

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So only those who sincerely believe in predestination are among the chosen few?
I don't know of anyone who believes this. In any case, that would also be a work.
I also don't know where you got "chosen few." I've never said it.
 

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All you said there is right. But what is the case if and when you sin? Does that same grace lead you into a godly sorrow and repentance?
The Holy Spirit will deal with a person who knowingly sins to bring that person back. But being free moral agents, the choice is ours whether to yield to the prompting of the Holy Spirit or not.
 

Everlasting-Grace

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Does he say it saves us or not? If yes, that's all you need yo know.
Well since your mind is made up. You will see what you want to see. that part is quite clear.

I would warn you against replacing the work of God in baptism with the work of men and water in baptism.
 

Everlasting-Grace

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Saved it not always a reference to "spiritual" salvation.

Sadly people make a mess of James thinking he is back loading works onto salvation he is not.
But he is,

James is fighting the thought that you can say you have faith and your a saved no matter what so you can live however you want. A term Jude calls licentiousness.

Thats why James appears to contradict paul. who said we are justified apart from works. because Paul was fighting a legalistic gospel of works..
 

Cameron143

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The Holy Spirit will deal with a person who knowingly sins to bring that person back. But being free moral agents, the choice is ours whether to yield to the prompting of the Holy Spirit or not.
How can the Spirit prompt if He has left?
 

Lamar

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can you show me the word water in mark 16?

Also. why did Jesus contradict himself?

John 3: 14 And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up, 15 that whoever believes in Him should [c]not perish but have eternal life. 16 For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. 17 For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved.


18 “He who believes in Him is not condemned; but he who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.

Is jesus the author of confusion?
Mark 16:16 needs a qualifier in order to be understood?
Come on man! Do you live your life like this?
 

NightTwister

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I do not believe anyone can work their way to salvation. Your insistence that I believe otherwise is arrogant.

Works of obedience are not works of merit.
Works of obedience are out of a humble and submissive heart.
Obedience is something you must do. That's a work. My salvation is wholly of God. There is no possible arrogance in that.
 

Beckie

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If we "willfully sin", the Holy Spirit leaves us. I am not talking about making a mistake, but knowingly sinning.
When do we not willfully sin? Making excuses is a very liberal ideal.
 

Ted01

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I do not believe anyone can work their way to salvation. Your insistence that I believe otherwise is arrogant.

Works of obedience are not works of merit.
Works of obedience are out of a humble and submissive heart.
But still, even though you say that "works of obedience" are not required for Salvation, that they are required... but for what? Because it seems as though you are saying that they are required before we obtain Salvation.
Do you not see that this seems to be a distinction without a difference?
 

Lamar

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But still, even though you say that "works of obedience" are not required for Salvation, that they are required... but for what? Because it seems as though you are saying that they are required before we obtain Salvation.
Do you not see that this seems to be a distinction without a difference?
Do you not see that this seems to be a distinction without a difference?

Here is the difference.

When God commands something to be done I do not question His will. I simply obey.

If the Bible told me to bathe in banana pudding in order for my sins to be forgiven I would not question His command. I would simply bathe in banana pudding. I would not feel the need to cross reference this command with His other commands. I would just obey.
I would not feel that my bathing in banana pudding was earning the forgiveness of my sins, I would just accept and not question God about His reasoning even if I was confused by the command.

I understand the reasoning of faith alone regeneration theology followers but that is your reasoning. But the Bible gives the reason to be baptized and it is not a sign of the past tense of the remission of sins but the future tense of the remission of sins and the Gift of the Holy Spirit. This is the prima facie of the text.

The flow and form of God's word has always been obey and prosper.

I hope this helps.
 

Lamar

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I never made the claim to be one of a few. I only claimed that I was chosen in Him before the foundation of the world. You characterize chosen with few. I have repeatedly said that heaven is populated with a number that no man can number.
So-called was a term the poster to whom I was responding used. I merely answered using his terminology. And I was also using the same verse the poster employed to make the point. The fictional example was so-called. But the very term so-called implies something being called one thing when it is actually something else.
As to how I know, that's a matter of discernment. I can never know ultimately whether someone is saved or not because I cannot see another's heart. But I can make functional judgments based on the word of God.
Matthew 7:14 "For the gate is narrow and the way is hard that leads to life, and those who find it are few."

This is why I used the term "chosen few".

There will be few populating heaven compared to the population in hell.

Note: it states "those who find it" not those that God chooses.
 

Lamar

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Still no admission from you that you do that which you repeatedly say others should not?
There is no qualifier in Mark 16:16 hence the baptism is water. I am not adding to the verse.

There is no qualifier in Eph. 2:8 yet you insist on adding "alone".

Why?
 

Cameron143

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Matthew 7:14 "For the gate is narrow and the way is hard that leads to life, and those who find it are few."

This is why I used the term "chosen few".

There will be few populating heaven compared to the population in hell.

Note: it states "those who find it" not those that God chooses.
You have no way of knowing there will be comparatively few in heaven. The gate is narrow in that there is only 1 way in...through Jesus. But all who call upon His name will be saved. The way is limited...only through Him. The offer of forgiveness in His name is universal.
 

Lamar

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You have no way of knowing there will be comparatively few in heaven. The gate is narrow in that there is only 1 way in...through Jesus. But all who call upon His name will be saved. The way is limited...only through Him. The offer of forgiveness in His name is universal.
So compared to those who are not chosen (like you) which has a larger count? Heaven or Hell?

"You have no way of knowing there will be comparatively few in heaven."

Are you really reading the verse?

Matthew 7:14 "For the gate is narrow and the way is hard that leads to life, and those who find it are few."

The Bible states their are few. Do you just like to argue?
 

Cameron143

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So compared to those who are not chosen (like you) which has a larger count? Heaven or Hell?

"You have no way of knowing there will be comparatively few in heaven."

Are you really reading the verse?

Matthew 7:14 "For the gate is narrow and the way is hard that leads to life, and those who find it are few."

The Bible states their are few. Do you just like to argue?
He was speaking to a Jewish audience who thought the way to God was through the law.

How many Jewish followers did Jesus have at the time of His death? How many believers are there today?

The kingdom of God is like the mustard plant. It has the smallest of seeds but grows to be the largest bush. Thusly is the kingdom of God growing. The gate is still narrow in that Jesus alone is the way. But many find it today. There are more Christians today than at anytime in history. That number will only continue to grow.

Incidently, how many people have come into the world? That number isn't anywhere close to a number no man can number.
 

John146

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I understand grace because I am saved by God's grace. His grace convicted me of my sins. His grace turned me from my sins. His grace washed me clean with the blood of Jesus Christ His beloved Son. His grace keeps me journeying on everyday. His grace will see me through until the end. Thank God for His grace!
And yet, you sin everyday...

Paul states in Romans 7 about his flesh...

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. Sin is in the flesh for a believer. Our inward man is in Christ.
24 O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death? Speaking in the present, Paul asks, who shall deliver me from my flesh? Get me out of this flesh!
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. One day, the Lord is going to deliver us from the body of this death at the resurrection. But for now, the struggle against the flesh is daily, and often times we find ourselves doing the opposite of what we know we should be doing. That's Romans 7. It's not Paul's former life under the law. And then he goes right into Romans 8 about walking after the flesh vs walking after the Spirit, as a believer.
 

JBTN

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Obedience-not-required based salvation is heresy, plain and simple.
“Beloved, if our heart does not condemn us, we have confidence before God; and whatever we ask we receive from him, because we keep his commandments and do what pleases him. And this is his commandment, that we believe in the name of his Son Jesus Christ and love one another, just as he has commanded us.”
‭‭1 John‬ ‭3‬:‭21‬-‭23‬ ‭ESV‬‬
https://bible.com/bible/59/1jn.3.21-23.ESV

Belief is commanded. Belief is obedience.
 

timemeddler

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No, all sin is not willful. There's a difference as the Lord has said. Willful sin is unacceptable to the Lord, but unintentional sin can be forgiven.

Numbers 15
[27] And if any soul sin through ignorance, then he shall bring a she goat of the first year for a sin offering.
[28] And the priest shall make an atonement for the soul that sinneth ignorantly, when he sinneth by ignorance before the Lord, to make an atonement for him; and it shall be forgiven him.
[29] Ye shall have one law for him that sinneth through ignorance, both for him that is born among the children of Israel, and for the stranger that sojourneth among them.
[30] But the soul that doeth ought presumptuously, whether he be born in the land, or a stranger, the same reproacheth the Lord; and that soul shall be cut off from among his people.
[31] Because he hath despised the word of the Lord, and hath broken his commandment, that soul shall utterly be cut off; his iniquity shall be upon him.
numbers is old testament under completely different covenant, and all sin can be forgiven, If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness. john1:9, animal sacrifice isn't needed anymore.