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Ephesians 1:4-5. Chosen and predestined BEFORE THE FOUNDATION OF THE WORLD. God said it. It’s settled.
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Please define convict. When you do, remember that your definition needs to make sense in the phrase “ convict the world of righteousness...
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Remember, there is a future aspect to salvation, but that does not negate the present aspect of salvation. I affirm that adoption also...
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Ok, but does it indicate when foreknowledge and predestination take place?
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Are you saved? Do you have eternal life right now?
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Adoption in Ephesians 1:5 is connected to predestination, which in turn is connected to election in verse 4, which took place before the...
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So there is both a present and future aspect to salvation, right?
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Good, I as well. A lot of people try to zoom through the Bible. I think we should read it slowly though, and ruminate on it as...
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Knew is not the same as foreknowledge.
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Then why does Ephesians 1:4 say that He chose us in Christ?!!
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If there is a future as well as a past aspect to salvation, how does it follow of necessity that since there is a future aspect of...
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Same thing, ruminate, meditate. I chose to not usd the word meditate because of the baggage it now carries.
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Eternal life also has a present and a future aspect too. These things show that your conclusion about adoption does not follow from...
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Read Ephesians 1:4 slowly and out loud to yourself.
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Yep. He blesses us with every spiritual blessing in heavenly places in Christ according to (in accordance with the fact) that He chose...
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Read Ephesians 1:4 again. Slowly and out loud.
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Type out the whole verse in KJV. It will say the exact same wording I am saying.
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Romans 8:29-30, Bubba.
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Who inspired the Word of God?
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There you go. The Spirit convinces through the Word He inspired.
