Did Jesus Die on The Cross for The Just/Elect/Saved Whose Names Are Written in The Book of Life OR

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jamessb

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Matthew 18:16-20
16 And if he will not hear thee, take with thee one or two more: that in the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may stand. 17 And if he will not hear them: tell the church. And if he will not hear the church, let him be to thee as the heathen and publican [Matthew 18:17] 18 Amen I say to you, whatsoever you shall bind upon earth, shall be bound also in heaven; and whatsoever you shall loose upon earth, shall be loosed also in heaven. 19 Again I say to you, that if two of you shall consent upon earth, concerning any thing whatsoever they shall ask, it shall be done to them by my Father who is in heaven. 20 For where there are two or three gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them.
What is with the weird English? And what are those numbers in the middle of the text?
 

brightfame52

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Only the Jews can't hear, the Gentiles can hear.

Verse 44 shows no one had the Holy Spirit before hearing and it was while hearing the Holy Spirit fell onto them

44 While Peter was still saying these things, the Holy Spirit fell on all who heard the word.

the gift of the Holy Spirit was poured out even on the Gentiles
You cant hear the Gospel Spiritually without being born again, regenerated. Faith is fruit of the Spirit Gal 5:22


Jesus tells us who hears the words of God Jn 8:47 and some cant

43 Why do ye not understand my speech? even because ye cannot hear my word.

47 He that is of God heareth God's words: ye therefore hear them not, because ye are not of God.
 

jamessb

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The numbers in the text are the verses.
They aren't a legitimate part of the Bible text, so why have them in there? They are reference numbers only.

Depending on whom you believe, chapters and verses (versification) were added to the Bible somewhere around the 13th or 14th Century. There are no chapter or verse numbers on the Hebrew, Aramaic, or Greek texts.
 

FollowerofShiloh

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You cant hear the Gospel Spiritually without being born again, regenerated. Faith is fruit of the Spirit Gal 5:22


Jesus tells us who hears the words of God Jn 8:47 and some cant

43 Why do ye not understand my speech? even because ye cannot hear my word.

47 He that is of God heareth God's words: ye therefore hear them not, because ye are not of God.
No matter how many times you post this won't ever make it true.
 

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They aren't a legitimate part of the Bible text, so why have them in there? They are reference numbers only.

Depending on whom you believe, chapters and verses (versification) were added to the Bible somewhere around the 13th or 14th Century. There are no chapter or verse numbers on the Hebrew, Aramaic, or Greek texts.
Why would I have posted from the texts when I chose to post from the Holy Bible instead?
 

brightfame52

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No matter how many times you post this won't ever make it true.
You cant hear the Gospel Spiritually without being born again, regenerated. Faith is fruit of the Spirit Gal 5:22


Jesus tells us who hears the words of God Jn 8:47 and some cant

43 Why do ye not understand my speech? even because ye cannot hear my word.

47 He that is of God heareth God's words: ye therefore hear them not, because ye are not of God.

And it has nothing to do with ethnicity, but a persons spiritual condition before regenerated, no matter ethnicity, all by nature are under sin and dead spiritually.
 

Rufus

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The Jews were natural man and ""God caused them not to hear""
But like I said, Paul did not say the Gentiles could not hear.

Heres the real truth:
44 While Peter was still saying these things, the Holy Spirit fell on all who heard the word.

The GENTILES are the ones who heard
because the gift of the Holy Spirit was poured out even on the Gentiles.


So the Gentiles CAN HEAR the Gospel
Those Gentiles heard because they were God's elect. But non-elect Gentiles cannot hear any more than non-elect Jews. No unregenerate sinner can hear because all the unbelieving Jews and Gentiles are spiritually DEAD! What part of "dead" can't you understand? Or do you you not understand the definition of "metaphor"?
 

Rufus

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Ok, where are we missing each other? I said God did not create a people for destruction. You agree or disagree?
No, you did not say that in your 1951. You said this: Woah horse are you saying God creates evil? Let's start at square one.

This is why we're "missing each other". Your singing a different tune now.
 

FollowerofShiloh

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You cant hear the Gospel Spiritually without being born again, regenerated. Faith is fruit of the Spirit Gal 5:22


Jesus tells us who hears the words of God Jn 8:47 and some cant

43 Why do ye not understand my speech? even because ye cannot hear my word.

47 He that is of God heareth God's words: ye therefore hear them not, because ye are not of God.

And it has nothing to do with ethnicity, but a persons spiritual condition before regenerated, no matter ethnicity, all by nature are under sin and dead spiritually.
Faith is not a Fruit of the Spirit, FAITHFULNESS is.
 

FollowerofShiloh

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Those Gentiles heard because they were God's elect. But non-elect Gentiles cannot hear any more than non-elect Jews. No unregenerate sinner can hear because all the unbelieving Jews and Gentiles are spiritually DEAD! What part of "dead" can't you understand? Or do you you not understand the definition of "metaphor"?
It literally and factually does not say that anywhere. You just made that up. Why?
 

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No, you did not say that in your 1951. You said this: Woah horse are you saying God creates evil? Let's start at square one.

This is why we're "missing each other". Your singing a different tune now.

The action that was completed "in the past" was in eternity "past" when God sovereignly decreed who his elect would be... and would not be by logical inference, since he chose to not have mercy and compassion on them, as he did with the former group.



Absolutely false! The Bible doesn't teach it, period. You are maligning the very character of God. God did not create a people for destruction. You're calling God a liar. I wouldn't want to stand in that place if I were you.


Pure unadulterated nonsense! Have you never read:
Prov 16:4
4 The LORD hath made all things for himself: yea, even the wicked for the day of evil ?
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13 Just as it is written: "Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated."
14 What then shall we say? Is God unjust? Not at all! 15 For he says to Moses,
I will have mercy on whom I have mercy,

and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion."


Woah horse are you saying God creates evil? Let's start at square one.


Is that what you think the text says? I know I certainly didn't say that?

Ok, that was the start of the convo. Now if you believe there is an elite, you believe God created a people for destruction. So why did you say you don't?





 

FollowerofShiloh

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When I hear/read that God created a specific people to save and the rest to die it reminds me of Hitler's REICHSTAG SPEECH

We must once and for all get rid of the opinion that the Jewish race was only created by God for the purpose of being in a certain percentage a parasite living on the body and the productive work of other nations.

Today I will once more be a prophet: If the international Jewish financiers in and outside Europe should succeed in plunging the nations once more into a world war, then the result will not be the Bolshevization of the earth, and thus the victory of Jewry, but the annihilation of the Jewish race in Europe.
 

jamessb

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Why would I have posted from the texts when I chose to post from the Holy Bible instead?
LOL!!! Don't you realize that chapters and verse were added to the Bible text in the 13th and 14th centuries CE? They are not part of Scripture.
 

Rufus

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It literally and factually does not say that anywhere. You just made that up. Why?
I didn't make it up. Do you really believe that all the Gentile people in Acts 10 were not chosen by God to hear and believe the Gospel?

Do you believe the Gentile people in Acts 10 were not the kind of people Jesus spoke of in Jn 10:16?

And did not Jesus say in the above passage that these other sheep "WILL listen to my voice"?

Did not Cornelius and his house full of people do just than when Peter preached the gospel to them?

Why can't you connect the dots here?
 

FollowerofShiloh

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I didn't make it up. Do you really believe that all the Gentile people in Acts 10 were not chosen by God to hear and believe the Gospel?

Do you believe the Gentile people in Acts 10 were not the kind of people Jesus spoke of in Jn 10:16?

And did not Jesus say in the above passage that these other sheep "WILL listen to my voice"?

Did not Cornelius and his house full of people do just than when Peter preached the gospel to them?

Why can't you connect the dots here?
I believe the Great Commission in Matthew 28:19 is designed for ALL people to hear the Gospel. So ALL people are chosen to hear.