Did Jesus Die on The Cross for The Just/Elect/Saved Whose Names Are Written in The Book of Life OR

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Wiccans seek the truth through Nature.

Is God going to save them because they are seeking truth when they rejected God and chose nature?
Not my call. Some things work boiled down and others, not so much.

Do you think God will save zero Wiccans?

I was called out of the occult...
 

PaulThomson

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Good. Then spiritual life precedes birth.
Your lack of any sense of logic is absolutely astounding.

How do you draw that conclusion from -
John 11:26
26 and everyone who lives and believes in Me shall never die. Do you believe this? "
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Those listening to Jesus were alive were they not? and they believed after listening, if they believed at all. And those that kept believing on Him never died.
 
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Not my call. Some things work boiled down and others, not so much.

Do you think God will save zero Wiccans?
I know many ex wiccans now are followers of Jesus. But in some cases something extremely tragic happened and caused them to look at different paths.
 

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I've participated in some forums on and off for awhile. They're all a bit different in focus in my experience. This one is quite revealing of how little is Scripture actually paid attention to.

Your experience and opinion?
I tried to point out to Unitarians and Trinitarians on CARM years ago how they kept on each cherrypicking translations of the same verse that sounded akin to their own positions, and adamantly insisting that theirs was the only possible realistic meaning of that text. No one cared to learn and concede that the original language of that text afforded support for, or at least accommodated, both positions, depending on what ideas one imported into that text from outside that text. I learned a lot in researching my responses, but I didn't feel like most there learned anything apart from cherry-picking from other people's responses whatever would cement in their original biases.
 

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I'm neither of the above, and those who can't argue ideas always label and characterize the beliefs of others falsely. It's bearing false witness and is sinful.
Just as there are some things a person can appropriate for themselves, there are other things which one cannot. Simply because one thing is possible doesn't make all things possible. What kind of fallacy were you employing?
What is your stance on the doctrine called irresistible grace? If someone embraces any of the LOUPI doctrines, they are calvinique in that doctrine. They may not be Calvinists. You seem to agree with Omni-faceted Imperfection and Irresistible Grace. Am I misreading you?
 

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Do you mean their bodies never returned to the dust of the earth?
Obviously not. They remained reconciled to God (living), as opposed to alienated from Him by guilt and shame and indifference (dead). The other meaning of dead in the Bible, other than physical death (the body lacking breath, heart-beat and consciousness).

How do you define "dead", as it is used in the Bible, with some scriptures that support your definitions.
 

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That's what I have always maintained. I have long said that both the believer and the outside world around the believer -- become aware of the new spiritual status at the point of birth. Of course, you adamantly refuse to see the parallels between physical and spiritual births. We all fully know that birthing a baby (new life) is a process. In addition, we also know that life doesn't begin at birth, but rather at conception; therefore life must have begun at a different point in time -- at the point of Regeneration vs. Birth. And we also know that none us willed ourselves into physical existence; yet somehow we willed our ourselves, with our supposed powerful, autonomous wills, to become a new creation. We willed ourselves to become something WE ARE NOT! We did something that God Almighty himself CANNOT DO! God empowers us to do something that he can't even do!? Really!? This defies scripture and a law of logic known as the Law of Identity. But you are so deaf, so blind to these simple truths that you cannot mentally grasp the lunacy and absurdity to your heretical soteriology.

In spite of all this, you NR are as happy as piglets rolling in the mud -- all the while stealing God's glory from Him and his miracle of salvation -- a glory to which he swore he will never give to anyone!

Hmm....Isn't there a commandment somewhere that says, "Thou shall not steal"? And didn't Jesus sternly warn against entering the sheep gate by any other way than by the [narrow] "gate"? And that those who don't are noting less than a thieves and robbers (Jn 10:1)? Yet, this is what you NR do. You invent clever ways to make salvation a cheap, worldly partnership arrangement between you and God! Salvation is reduced to a mere quid pro quo arrangement. And of course, it's always the finite, evil, God-hating, truth-hating, darkness-loving partners who have to make the first move to birth yourselves, otherwise God would be "forcing his will" upon you. After all, none of the partners in this relationship can ever see themselves as spiritually impoverished, miserable wretches, destitute of any intrinsic goodness and powerless to live up to their end of the bargain.

May God have mercy on all your souls!
 

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God gave Satan everything and he still wasn't happy. You can't make someone be a slave and while they're being a slave they are happy about it.
Nothing is impossible for God. Maybe that is what the New Heart promise is all about in the New Covenant? If it weren't for Him I wouldn't be a slave to obedience which leads to righteousness (Rom 6:15ff.). Is it better to be a slave of Satan than a slave to a Holy, Righteous, Good, Loving, Compassionate, Merciful King? Are you saying that God is wicked to sovereignly deliver his elect from the slavery of sin, the law, the devil, fear and death and make his people slaves of obedience instead, whereby they become free for the things I just listed?

Have you never learned that God is so powerful, so wise that he can turn Evil on its head to become Good!?
 

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In spite of all this, you NR are as happy as piglets rolling in the mud -- all the while stealing God's glory from Him and his miracle of salvation -- a glory to which he swore he will never give to anyone!
Did He swear such a thing? Where is that? Did He say "never"?
 

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Your lack of any sense of logic is absolutely astounding.

How do you draw that conclusion from -
John 11:26
26 and everyone who lives and believes in Me shall never die. Do you believe this? "
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Those listening to Jesus were alive were they not? and they believed after listening, if they believed at all. And those that kept believing on Him never died.
I know you would say that. :rolleyes: So, Jesus was saying the very, very obvious: You guys who are physically alive and believe the gospel? His hearers didn't know they were physically alive? And yet, you don't attach the same absurd, physical meaning to '"will live even though he dies" physically , do you? If Jesus was waxing physical with life in v.26, why not with death, as well in v25? :rolleyes:
 

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Did He swear such a thing? Where is that? Did He say "never"?
This could only be asked by a thief who has already stolen God's glory. Feeling guilty, are you?

You're a resourceful guy, right? Search the scriptures and you'll find the answer. Right now, I must run.
 

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I know you would say that. :rolleyes: So, Jesus was saying the very, very obvious: You guys who are physically alive and believe the gospel? His hearers didn't know they were physically alive? And yet, you don't attach the same absurd, physical meaning to '"will live even though he dies" physically , do you? If Jesus was waxing physical with life in v.26, why not with death, as well in v25? :rolleyes:
That's the problem with you posting snippets of verse and my responding to your snippet, without checking context of your snippet.
John 11:25-27

25 Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that is believing in Me, though he were dead, yet shall he live:
26 And whosoever is living and is believing in me shall never die. Do you believe this?

Jesus is alluding to himself being the resurrection and life raising all the dead saints on the last day.
The souls believing in Jesus on that day, though his body were dead, will rise again and live physically.
And those alive on that day, will be changed in the twinkling of an eye without dying.

It's not about regeneration at all.
 

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This could only be asked by a thief who has already stolen God's glory. Feeling guilty, are you?

You're a resourceful guy, right? Search the scriptures and you'll find the answer. Right now, I must run.
You made the claim. You have the burden to back it up.
 

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This could only be asked by a thief who has already stolen God's glory. Feeling guilty, are you?

You're a resourceful guy, right? Search the scriptures and you'll find the answer. Right now, I must run.
I looked. There is no verse in the entire Bible where "never" and "glory" both occur.
 

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They became saved, and from/by that, they believed - it came as a result, not as a cause They could not truly hear (have spiritual discernment of) the gospel until they were saved because they didn't have the Holy Spirit until they were saved/born again, and without the Holy Spirit, to hear spiritually is impossible.

[1Co 2:12 KJV] 12 Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God.
Hello, Roger … What’s your understanding of Ephesians 1:13-14?
In Him you also trusted, after you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation; in whom also, having believed, you were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise, who is the guarantee of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, to the praise of His glory.
 
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I looked. There is no verse in the entire Bible where "never" and "glory" both occur.
Please excuse me for finding somewhat hilarious the fact that you pick and pick and pick at others for not sticking to exactly what the Bible says while you adamantly and repeatedly refused to admit how frequently you go beyond what the Bible actually explicitly states while making rationalizations for doing so.
 
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Obviously not. They remained reconciled to God (living), as opposed to alienated from Him by guilt and shame and indifference (dead). The other meaning of dead in the Bible, other than physical death (the body lacking breath, heart-beat and consciousness).

How do you define "dead", as it is used in the Bible, with some scriptures that support your definitions.
I am out for coffee right now and not able to look up verses to support any thoughts I might have on what the Bible says about death, but obviously there is more than one type of death spoken of, for there is physical death and there is what we call spiritual death, and there is also the first death which all experience, and the second death which is everlasting for those who suffer it (believers escape the second death). Jesus spoke of death as sleep and some revile thinking along those lines as if Jesus was a liar. Such people mock the idea of death being likened to sleep, and claim that sleep is a metaphor for wakefulness... which is pretty strange, if you ask me.

" Born once, die twice; born twice, die once."