Quickening IS convicting!
God wants everyone to be convicted, but He enables humans to resist/ignore His will.
This truth is called God's intentional and permissive will.
Calvinism is Gospel !
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Quickening IS convicting!
God wants everyone to be convicted, but He enables humans to resist/ignore His will.
This truth is called God's intentional and permissive will.
What are you talking about? Why would you post such a thing? Read my post again, more carefully. If one is in Christ through believing the gospel, one is sealed unto the day of redemption. There is no casting out of Christ.
Question: In which verses specifically did you find that being placed in Christ occurs "through believing?"
These are your words..
Seems to me that if a person can only choose to do evil continuously than that person is evil, is that not the definition of an evil person?
And since Mary was not born again/regenerated until after the death and resurrection of Christ Jesus we must conclude that she was evil along with all the apostles, Noah, Job and others.
Every choice Mary made was evil from birth, because she could only choose to do evil.... that it the real life application.
That is always the problem with Calvinism people want the tenets without the actual real life implications.
Right, the church goes door knocking to make sure God has a basis upon which to condemn those He has not pre-selected, that makes a lot of sense.
What comes from between your "two lips" is all we get from that.
He came to his OWN people!
He came to his own and they rejected him! John 1:11
Jews.
Jesus was presenting himself as a Jew.
Matthew 1:21
She will give birth to a son, and you are to give him the name Jesus,
because he will save his people from their sins.”
Jew haters get really bugged by that part.
The church only came after the Resurrection and ascension took place.
His Body the Church is His People, they are One Flesh Eph 5:29-32
29 For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church:
30 For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones.
31 For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh.
32 This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church.
He is the Saviour of His body Vs 23;For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body.
Yes.... That was written for the Church.
But? He came to the Jews. His own.
Mary was told for His Own people!
Don't confuse the Church for the entire body of all believers throughout history.
And, may I ask?
Where will his throne be during the Millennium?
Jerusalem! As the Son of David.
And?
Who will evangelize the world while the Church has been raptured and in Heaven?
144,000 Jews!
Jews will once again be the leaders of men on the earth - The New Earth.
The Church has its home in Heaven.
You need to get those cobwebs out!
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Referring to your post to heishere right above, is anything but humble. Hence my post. The fact you think you have been attacked because I pointed out your superior opinion of yourself is typical of those who fancy themselves 'humble'.
I will have to stop there for reasons that people who are not as humble as you, might understand.
“I did not say these things to you from the beginning, because I was with you. 5But now I am going to him who sent me, and none of you asks me, ‘Where are you going?’ 6But because I have said these things to you, sorrow has filled your heart. 7Nevertheless, I tell you the truth: it is to your advantage that I go away, for if I do not go away, the Helper will not come to you. But if I go, I will send him to you.
8And when he comes, he will convict the world concerning sin and righteousness and judgment: 9concerning sin, because they do not believe in me; 10concerning righteousness, because I go to the Father, and you will see me no longer; 11concerning judgment, because the ruler of this world is judged. John 16
I guess that makes you a person who does not believe scripture and sadly someone who does not have acquaintance with the Holy Spirit.
Calvinism is not a blessing. It is a curse.
Election of Ephesians 1:4 speaks of what?
Those chosen "in Him."
Chosen for what?
To be His bride!
For he chose us in Him before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in his sight.
Just like Eve was in Adam's side before she was revealed?
We are now seated with Him (in Him) in heavenly places.
We had been selected and elected out of all those whom God knows will believe, to be made the Bride of Christ.
He knew we would believe and then chose!
Not all believers have been elected to our position for eternity living.
Moses is not going to be the Bride.
Neither will David be.
For they were not Chosen in Him before the foundation of the world to be so!
God the Father sovereignly chose out from all the souls He knew would believe, only some to become the Bride for His Son.
That is what we have been elected for. Not to believe. But, because He knows we would believe!
God makes sense.
Unredeemed humanity cannot receive the Holy Spirit. The world does not receive the truth. '16And I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Advocate to be with you forever— 17the Spirit of truth. The world cannot receive Him, because it neither sees Him nor knows Him. But you do know Him, for He abides with you and will be in you.
Jesus speaking to His disciples. Jesus plainly states that unbelievers (the world) cannot receive the Holy Spirit.
This (among many other places in scripture) should create doubt in the mind of an earnest Calvinist. They should be asking 'well then, why am I being told that the Holy Spirit enters unbelievers?
Those who have accepted Christ are redeemed.
This nonsense of Calvinism that the Holy Spirit enters unbelievers is a lie. He does seal believers. BELIEVERS ie, those who have come to Christ with the acknowledgement that without Him there is no salvation.
You know, it is such a shame that true Calvinists do not have basic knowledge of the gospel and then their life in Christ when God makes Himself available through His Spirit which Jesus promised to all who come to Him (are His)
Basic and easy to understand truth which is available to all who do not accept the lie that anyone or anything is before Christ who is before ALL.
I pray God gives understanding here, but He does not force Himself on anyone. One day though, all mankind will acknowledge that Jesus is Lord.
As it is said, “Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion. Hebrews 3:15
Those for whom Christ died are redeemed from the curse of the Law Gal 3:13
13 Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree:
According to this scripture how were they redeemed from the curse of the Law ?
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