3 Statements...Just True or False

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ThereRoseaLamb

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Your objection is duly noted and I appreciate your response, but there is a choice option that doesn't agree with me.

Really, how'd I miss that?! I'm pretty good at disagreeing with people. Shoot I'm gettin' slow in my old age.
 

Roughsoul1991

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I agree. Speak the truth in love. I'm just not sure what passes for love here is actually love.
It is hard to say without seeing body language, facial expressions, or tone of voice.

Nevertheless, it still stands as command even if some do it not in love.

Disagreements arise due to multiple reasons.

  • Limited knowledge (we are finite beings who only hold so much information)
  • Wrong application (Bad Hermeneutics)
  • Bias (there is good bias towards truth or bad bias as in confirmation bias which is when a person gives more weight to evidence that confirms their beliefs and undervalues evidence that could disprove it.)
  • Alternative motives (deception, pride, power, etc)
 

Cameron143

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I have questions and explanations though. Sorry!

Regarding Q1: When Adam actually sinned and ate of the fruit, didn't that show his heart and mind was already corrupted? Because sin starts in a person's heart or mind. The physical part of eating the forbidden fruit is usually the part you can see and is a result of what's already in the heart or mind.

Regarding Q3: This statement is incomplete to me and can't be answered at this point. It sounds like God chooses arbitrarily. Don't you ever wonder how God chooses people He wants to send to His Son?

John 6:37
All those the Father gives me will come to me, and whoever comes to me I will never drive away.


But everyone so far just stops there. It sounds like the Father's choice have no rhyme or reason. But look further down the verses, it shows how God chooses the people He sends to His Son:

John 6:45
It is written in the Prophets: ‘They will all be taught by God.’ Everyone who has heard the Father and learned from him comes to me.


So God's choice isn't arbitrary at all. The people the Father sends to Jesus are those who hear the Father and learn from Him.

So if you had included that verse, I would have answered "True".
I appreciate that you have taken the time to respond. I purposefully designed the thread so what I believe isn't considered in anyone's answer so while I have no problem answering your questions in another thread, it would be counter to my goal here.
I realize that there are some who see a bias in the original statements themselves but I earnestly tried to negate that as well.
I don't know who said it but it's certainly true...you can please some of the people all of the time, and you can please all of the people some of the time. But you can never please all of the people all of the time.
 

ThereRoseaLamb

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I agree. Speak the truth in love. I'm just not sure what passes for love here is actually love.

My father always quotes an old Gospel singer who said " The older I get, the more people I'm letting into heaven". I think too often we think we have a job we don't have, and don't do the one we do have because we don't have the discernment to know the difference.
 

ThereRoseaLamb

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their hate for calvinism has them blinded.

Just like the flip side.. the calvinist who can not see because of his fear of being attacked or hatred for armenian

I'm more concerned about his bent toward antisemitism. He and Luther, and several other church fathers. But I won't derail a thread over it. Just a thought on this post.
 

Everlasting-Grace

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Nope. No vote change because in context John 3:16 God invites all. God wishes all to be saved 1 Timothy 2:4. God has opened the door to all and the one who comes, Jesus is faithful to fulfill His promise of salvation.

Jesus is faithful but not always the Christian as scripture also speaks of those who will fall away or apostate. Another reason why Jesus says to abide in the vine or be at risk of being cut off and thrown to the fire. Jesus leaves us no room for either believe this or that. Scripture doesn't contradict so it has to be this and this. They are to add to the interpretation.

If God wants all to be saved then why can't an all powerful God do that?

Why all the commands to believe, have faith, abide, remain, faithfulness, etc?

Why all the warnings to believers about being led astray?

Calvinism is just unBiblical but I don't believe it will lead someone to Hell. It is just the teachings of straw and hay versus silver and gold.

Gods grace is resistible.
Humanity is required to choose.
All are without excuse.
God's elect are those found in the Book of Life.

The Book of life is predestined by the foreknowledge of God knowing who will abide and who will not.

The no crowd is just as much Christian as you but interpret the Bible differently.

Oh well, this has been debated for centuries and a million times on Chistian chat.
your thinking to hard and seem to be stuck on calvinist view

Yes, the context is all are invited.

Yet only those who believe will recieve

so question number three states, whoever is given (those who see and believe john 6) will come and be given eternal life (will by no means be cast out) is true
 

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I'm more concerned about his bent toward antisemitism. He and Luther, and several other church fathers. But I won't derail a thread over it. Just a thought on this post.
I see and understand. I just try not to read a persons mind or intention.. If his intention is bad in the end it will show.. If not. and I accuse him, I have falsly accused..

Also. I will not understand what he is asking and most likely my response will show a lack of understanding. and I make myself look foolish
 

Magenta

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Hi Mem, this is just a thought, but wouldn't "the other way around" lay the blame for Adam's moral corruption, evil and sin (as well ours) directly at God's feet, since "the other way around" would have to mean that God made him that way :unsure:
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But, but... God did make him that way. Adam was of the natural world... That does not mean that
Adam was not responsible for the choice he made in exercising his will in opposition to God's.
That is not to say either, that God has not taken full responsibility for it.
 

ThereRoseaLamb

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I see and understand. I just try not to read a persons mind or intention.. If his intention is bad in the end it will show.. If not. and I accuse him, I have falsly accused..

Also. I will not understand what he is asking and most likely my response will show a lack of understanding. and I make myself look foolish
Yep, that's the reason I skip a lot of threads. Seems I'm not near as bright as I thought I was. Figure it's better to keep quiet and not show my lack of understanding.
 

Magenta

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Clarification: "like that" ~ not meaning already corrupt, but with the ability to choose that could result in corruption.
 

Magenta

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Blessed are the peacemakers...
I would have mercy and not sacrifice...
He who would gain his life must lose it...
Deny yourself...

We've sharpened until we're nothing but points so that no matter what direction we turn
we cut. We've just gotten so used to the blood, the sight of it no longer evokes mercy.

Matthew 9:13 ~ I desire mercy, not sacrifice.
:)
 

Pilgrimshope

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But it certainly helps!!!
The right grace that brings salvation

“For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men,

teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world;

looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and Saviour Jesus Christ; who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works.

These things speak, and exhort, and rebuke with all authority. Let no man despise thee.”
‭‭Titus‬ ‭2:11-15‬ ‭KJV‬‬

the problem with the modern doctrine of grace today

“For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ.”
‭‭Jude‬ ‭1:4‬ ‭KJV‬‬

when we have to deny what the lord said like for instance “ unless you repent your going to perish “ and we call that grace erasing what he said about it we’re removing this

“Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life.”
‭‭John‬ ‭5:24‬ ‭KJV‬‬

The truth test of doctrine is of one can agree with Jesus and what he said about salvation and eternal life he said many things
 

Magenta

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Not true. Adam had a "normal human nature" before AND after he tossed God under
the bus, but he DID DIE SPIRITUALLY in the same way we all do the first time we SIN.
We are by nature children of wrath and deserving of God's wrath before
being saved. Was Adam by nature deserving of wrath before he sinned?
-:unsure:
 

Pilgrimshope

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Probably a good time to post the Words of Jesus Himself. And then maybe some of the NO number 3 guys will change their vote.

John 6:37
New King James Version

37" All that the Father gives Me will come to Me, and the one who comes to Me I will by no means cast out."


So how is it possible for a Christian to vote no?
Exactly the same way Jesus can say this and many Christian’s won’t believe it

“I tell you, Nay: but, except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish.”
‭‭Luke‬ ‭13:3‬ ‭

Or this Jesus taught this multiple times and many Christians will not accept it

“For if ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you:

but if ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.”
‭‭Matthew‬ ‭6:14-15‬ ‭KJV‬‬
 

Magenta

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This particular Christian reads on to verse 38-40 which clarifies God's will.

37Everyone the Father gives Me will come to Me, and the one who comes to Me I will never drive away.
38For I have come down from heaven, not to do My own will, but to do the will of Him who sent Me.

39And this is the will of Him who sent Me, that I shall lose none of those He has given Me, but raise them up at the last day. 40For it is My Father’s will that everyone who looks to the Son and believes in Him shall have eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day.”

John 6:37
:)
 

Pilgrimshope

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We are by nature children of wrath and deserving of God's wrath before
being saved. Was Adam by nature deserving of wrath before he sinned?
-:unsure:
(genesis 1-3)

“The man he made for glory , apart from sin and shame

to bear his glorious image , and praise his holy name

To live with him in Eden , eat from the tree of life

But then came there temptations , to Adam and his wife

“ Thou shalt not die! ‘twill make you wise “ , those subtle lies were said

Beguiled by the serpents snare , till man was surely dead

And so their eyes were opened , that knowledge now they knew

Good and evil , sin and death , those aweful things now true

then driven out from Eden , to live in toil and strife

until some day , along times way, deaths curse would take their life “





God did not make man this way following deception into sin did

“And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. ( mans hear has been corrupted )

And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.”
‭‭Genesis‬ ‭6:5-6‬ ‭

obviously something went very wrong

from this

“In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth….And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good.
‭‭Genesis‬ ‭1:1- 31‬ ‭KJV‬‬

To this

“And the LORD said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them.”
‭‭Genesis‬ ‭6:7‬ ‭KJV‬‬

What went wrong was man denying Gods word of life and accepting satans word of certain death regarding the commandment Gods word gave man dominion and sommans corruption ruined everything
 

Roughsoul1991

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your thinking to hard and seem to be stuck on calvinist view

Yes, the context is all are invited.

Yet only those who believe will recieve

so question number three states, whoever is given (those who see and believe john 6) will come and be given eternal life (will by no means be cast out) is true
3. All that are given to Jesus by the Father will come to Him and receive eternal life.

In my original response I said,

But it all depends on how you define these topics of depravity, election, and predestination.
Leaving the door open for explanation. I agree with how you explain question three.