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    Chester replied to the thread OSAS, another angle..
    When God asks questions in His Word, then I listen and I endeavor to understand. When man creates a theology, then asks rhetorical...
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    Chester replied to the thread OSAS origins and comparison.
    I like what you say about Acts 5:32: It says the Holy Spirit is given to those who obey Jesus. That is what the verse says so that...
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    Chester replied to the thread OSAS, another angle..
    So back to your questions . . . "I don't know how anyone can be unborn again. It is God who causes us to be born again. How can He kill...
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    Chester replied to the thread OSAS origins and comparison.
    Ephesians 1:13,14 - Says we are sealed with the Spirit - does not say we cannot lose the Spirit. I Cor. 1:21,22 - says we have been...
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    Chester replied to the thread OSAS, another angle..
    To me, the questions you ask above do not help at all: Why not just look simply at what we read in the Scriptures?
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    Chester reacted to Gideon300's post in the thread How do you know that you are saved? with Like Like.
    ".....that if you confess with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be...
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    Chester reacted to randyk's post in the thread OSAS origins and comparison with Like Like.
    It sounds like you do need assurance? You've done the best you can to have that assurance? I don't know abot OSAS circles where one...
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    Chester replied to the thread OSAS origins and comparison.
    I guess I don't get it either: why does one need an "eternal security" that is based on the point in time of the new birth? If so, one...
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    Chester replied to the thread OSAS origins and comparison.
    Maybe my question was not clear: In relation to losing the indwelling of the Spirit of God you said: "That cannot happen. It doesn't...
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    Chester replied to the thread OSAS origins and comparison.
    What I mean is that if you have two seemingly opposite positions, we often consider that one is right and the other is wrong. I am just...
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    Thanks for the answers so far here . . . Different people find assurance in perhaps slightly different ways, but in all cases it is God...
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    Chester reacted to rewriter's post in the thread How do you know that you are saved? with Like Like.
    Well I find yor question ambiguous. Do you mean to ask how can we assure ourselves, citing whatever scripture we find most comforting...
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    Chester reacted to Ceph's post in the thread How do you know that you are saved? with Like Like.
    God still shows me heavenly things in my mind despite me having pushd them away, and keeps assuring me I'm saved no matter how I ask.
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    Chester reacted to Aussie52's post in the thread How do you know that you are saved? with Like Like.
    I too, have the witness of the Spirit that I am a child of God.
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    Chester reacted to PennEd's post in the thread How do you know that you are saved? with Like Like.
    I have confessed with my mouth Jesus is Lord, (God in the flesh) and I believe in my heart He was raised to life on the 3rd day.