Notice that it was possible for these servants to have a
Luke 19:
15When he returned from procuring his
kingship, he summoned the servants to whom he had given the money, to find out what each one had earned.
thus
be in a Kingdom before receiving
(in bold)
Luke 19:
16The first servant came forward and said, ‘Master, your mina has produced ten more minas.’
17His master replied, ‘Well done, good servant! Because you have been faithful in a very small matter, you shall have
authority over ten
cities.’
18The second servant came and said, ‘Master, your mina has made five minas.’
19And to this one he said, ‘You shall have
authority over five
cities.’
aka authority over a
3310. meris (partake)
Strong's Exhaustive Concordance
part, portion
Feminine of
meros; a portion,
i.e. Province, share or (abstractly) participation -- part (X -akers).
see GREEK
meros
Strong's Concordance
meris: a part, portion
Original Word: μερίς, ίδος, ἡ
Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine
Transliteration: meris
Phonetic Spelling: (mer-ece')
Definition: a part, portion
Usage: (a) a part,
division of a country, (b) a share, portion.
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 3310: μερίς
μερίς, μερίδος, ἡ (see μέρος), the Sept. chiefly for חֵלֶק, חֶלְקָה, מָנָה; (from Antiphon and Thucydides down); a part, equivalent to
1. a part as distinct from the whole: (τῆς) Μακεδονίας,
Acts 16:12 (on which see Hort in WH's Appendix at the passage).
2.
an assigned part, a portion, share:
Luke 10:42 (see ἀγαθός, 2); ἐστι μοι μερίς μετά τίνος, I have a portion, i. e. fellowship, with one,
2 Corinthians 6:15. οὐκ ἐστι μοι μερίς ἤ κλῆρος ἐν τίνι, I have neither part nor lot, take no share, in a thing,
Acts 8:21; ἱκανουν τινα εἰς τήν μερίδα τίνος, to make one fit to obtain a share in a thing (i. e. partitive genitive; others, genitive of apposition),
Colossians 1:12.
Used in Colossians 1:12,
thus before receiving a share/partaking, which would explain, despite talking to disciples of Jesus, the present tensed
Hebrews 12:
28Therefore, since we are
receiving an unshakable kingdom, let us be filled with gratitude, and so worship God acceptably with reverence and awe
Which could describe someone who will partake/receive a portion of the kingdom (in bold)
35So do not throw away your confidence; it holds a great reward.
36You need to persevere, so that
after you have done the will of God, you will receive what He has promised.
as a result of using all the things they have been prepared with
then it makes no sense to direct the warning at them
"that your faith and hope might be in God."
implies God raised Jesus from the dead
for the purpose of their faith being in God which can be true
even if they didn't believe,
just like putting on cologne for the purpose of impressing a woman can be true even if you impress no one
"by God" doesn't deductively infer necessity because if it were possible for the elect to not believe, the possibility of
belief could still be credited to what God accomplished in this case
just like if a plant grows, we usually credit the planter
but nothing here makes belief
necessary
"By Christ being raised by the Father from the dead, faith is imputed to His elect/saved."
however implies faith necessarily. However, the point was that even if God did necessarily give them faith at some point in the past, that in itself doesn't mean this
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Regarding Philippians 1:6
If Paul was referring to the same general concept in 1 Corinthians 1:7-8 and Colossians 1:12-23 imo
then notice in Colossians there is this important added condition
Colossians 1:
23if indeed you continue in your faith, established and firm, not moved from the hope of the gospel you heard, which has been proclaimed to every creature under heaven, and of which I, Paul, have become a servant.
which, like with Hebrews 3:14, can (and seems to) mean
as a result of standing firm in faith.
Or does Colossians 1:23 have nothing to do with Philippians 1:6?
the verse does not say
"but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we
will believe in Jesus Christ"
or is there no difference?
And as shown the other verses really don't necessarily give this osas meaning
Hence the
discomfort in interpreting this
Hebrews 3:
12See to it, brothers, that none of you has a
wicked heart of unbelief that turns away from the living God
as an admonition and not a warning to his Christian brethren
assuming for the sake of argument that
Χριστοῦ, means "of Christ" necessarily and not "in Christ" here (also taking a colloquial meaning for "faith")
It would suggest, without reading anything else into it
a) Christ gave you faith
b) through that faith you have righteousness
Christ giving you faith at some point in the past, again, does not mean that
at some later point you cannot have
Hebrews 3:
12See to it, brothers, that none of you has a
wicked heart of unbelief that turns away from the living God
from not doing this for example
Hebrews 3:
13But
exhort one another daily, as long as it is called today, so that none of you may be hardened by sin’s deceitfulness.
Which does not epress the degree of faith that had,
forsooth to have had "true faith" or not"
A position that seems cumbersome
Acts 16:
30Then he brought them out and asked, “Sirs, what must I do
to be saved?”
31They replied, “Believe in the Lord Jesus and you
will be saved, you and your household.”
therefore, being based on that premise
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is false in as much as "saved" here matches "saved" in Acts 16:30
