Again... getting you to see what is said is a WORK with you!
Tunnel vision is what you suffer from.
Calvinism is Gospel !
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Tunnel vision is what you suffer from.
How could you show me I was wrong when Gal 5:22 says plain as the noon day sun that Faith is the fruit of the Spirit ? So is Faithfulness. I understand you want to deny it and relegate it to faithfulness, because by it being faith, it overthrows your freewill theology, and it destroys your conditional salvation heresy. However faith is still the fruit of the Spirit, faithfulness is just the ongoing practice of Faith,You cannot be faithful to a God you do not first believe in. In fact both Faith and Faithfulness is caused by the Spirit, so people like yourself cannot boast.
Faithfulness!
Not faith!
Faithfulness = Loyalty and reliability in relationships and commitments.
Consequently, faith comes from hearing the message,
and the message is heard through the word about Christ. Romans 10:17
Faith is having and accurate understanding of God's Word, and having it made it by grace to become transformed into your own ways of thinking.
Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind.
Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.
Romans 12:2
You should not be teaching anyone.
You make too many dumb mistakes.
But you will continue to do so. ... Why?
Because you will never learn to come to a knowledge of the Truth which would rebuke you and shut you down
so you can be corrected.
You keep refusing to deny self and to take up your cross. A cross that will cause in you to die to your old self
which you refuse to give up. For you must have pushed your way through life with stubbornness and stupidity
that got you ahead with certain limited people.
God will not be mocked. Your life is reaping what you sow.
They are the kind who worm their way into homes and gain control over gullible women,
who are loaded down with sins and are swayed by all kinds of evil desires, always learning
but never able to come to a knowledge of the truth. 2 Timothy 3:6-7
The poor we will always have among us...
Lol You teaching the false gospel of salvation by works. How you gonna explain that on Judgment day ?
Show us! Not just numbers! Copy and paste what you claim is there!
The new software here does not pop up the verses anymore.
Here you go! Work with this!
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness.
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Are you DUMB?
Maybe, it is better to be stupid?
Whoever loves discipline loves knowledge,
but whoever hates correction is stupid.
Proverbs 12:1
Someone needs to be honest with you.
Gal 5:22
22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,
Its the greek word pistis and its translated Faith 239 x
Paul uses the same word here:Romans 5:1, Ephesians 2:8; 2 Thess 2:13
The KJV and strongs lexicon never translated it faithfulness, once fidelity.
The Particular Gospel
The heart of the gospel is the atoning death of the Lord Jesus Christ. Scripture places all the responsibility and burden of our salvation on the shoulders of our Lord. If a man is to be saved God must save him and the good news is that the Lord Jesus Christ has ‘saved us, and called us with an holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began’.If I am to be redeemed from the curse of the law it must be the Lord Jesus who redeems me. If I am to be delivered from captivity to my own sinful nature it must be the Lord Jesus who sets me free. To be released from the bondage of Satan, Christ must breaks the chains for by my own strength I can neither settle the claim of God’s law, overthrow my inherited sinful nature or escape the devil’s grasp.
The doctrine of particular redemption lays all the responsibility for salvation on the shoulders of the Saviour and gives Him all the glory. Christ’s death accomplishes Jonah’s confession that ‘salvation is of the Lord’. It fulfils the apostle’s statement, ‘Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures’ (1 Corinthians 15:3). The doctrine of particular redemption recognises the efficacy of Christ’s sacrificial death and acknowledges it is the blood of Jesus Christ, God’s Son, which cleanses us from all sin (1 John 1:7). Particular redemption gives praise where praise is due.
Christ’s death was substitutionary and representative. We ‘are justified by His blood’, and though, ‘we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son’ (Romans 5:9, 10). Christ died to save, not to make salvation possible. He gave His blood to redeem, not to make redemption possible. He suffered to take away our sins. He did not create an environment for the removal of sin should a man decided he would like that to happen. God’s gift of grace is much more certain than that.
If Christ’s accomplishments on the cross were general and universal then praise and gratitude for salvation must reside with man since ultimately it is a man himself who makes Christ’s general work personal and applicable to himself. But this cannot be since Paul tells us, no flesh can glory in the presence of God (1 Corinthians 1:29). By right the Lord Jesus must receive all the honour because it is He who accomplished our great salvation.
All whom God loved with everlasting love, chose by sovereign grace and united to Himself in the covenant of peace will be saved and brought to a knowledge of the truth through faith and hearing the gospel. These are the blessed individuals redeemed by Christ. They will all be called to spiritual life and faith by God the Holy Spirit.
Trusting Christ does not actuate some dormant, provisional work of grace. Faith is God’s spiritual gift. It hears and believes the truth of Christ’s effectual work spiritually. Faith brings assurance. It relies upon a powerful Saviour and His completed work. It gives solid hope of eternal glory and justifiable confidence of acceptance with God. God’s people always look away from themselves to the accomplishments of their Saviour on the cross. https://go-newfocus.co.uk/editorial/app/category/editorial/article/the-particular-gospel 51
A non-believer can also possess these qualities to some degree, they still are image bearers. Although it seems like Calvinist like to see every non-believer as psycho-paths basically.
I think this guy from open door fellowship gives some additional insight
Fruit in the verse is singular, that is important.
While unbelievers may experience a degree of all of the attributes, Christians are experiencing them for one grand Spirit-driven
purpose; that the cross of Christ will be exalted, and the grace of God displayed as the transforming power it really is.
So let us exalt in the cross again today. While the Spirit is keeping a kind of moral order in a broken world, the Spirit’s truest work
and glorious fruit is His work of making new creatures in Christ. They alone will declare the praises of Him who is worthy.
Open Door
That is not how it is translated here!
You are taking the root word and totally ignoring all the modifiers.
That is CHEATING!
Here it is again...
His master replied, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant! You have been faithful with a few things;
I will put you in charge of many things. Come and share your master’s happiness!’ Matthew 25:23
You need good teaching. We all do!
Here is one that can help you.
https://rbthieme.org/
He taught when it was necessary seminary level exegesis from the pulpit.
God has provided for us to mature in all things spiritual!
The Father wants us to succeed and glorify Christ.
God provides teachers.
We must choose to learn.
grace and truth.......
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