Understanding God’s election
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They don't need Jesus. They have their false doctrine.
I don't think they want to understand. It would mean acknowledging they fell hook line and sinker.
The natural man is their kind of guy! Not so bad as Scripture makes him out to be, after all.
According to what they believe, we are not to believe it when Jesus says, "Only God is good."
I don't think they want to understand. It would mean acknowledging they fell hook line and sinker.
The natural man is their kind of guy! Not so bad as Scripture makes him out to be, after all.
According to what they believe, we are not to believe it when Jesus says, "Only God is good."
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Acts 16:31
So they said, “Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and you shall be saved, you and your household.”
Luke 12:48
But he who did not know, yet committed things deserving of stripes, shall be beaten with few.........
Believe and THEN you shall be saved.
Commit things worthy of stripes and THEN you shall be beaten.
Simple.
So they said, “Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and you shall be saved, you and your household.”
Luke 12:48
But he who did not know, yet committed things deserving of stripes, shall be beaten with few.........
Believe and THEN you shall be saved.
Commit things worthy of stripes and THEN you shall be beaten.
Simple.
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If you want to simplify it that is your right. I was under the impression we are not to make a doctrine based on one verse.
I was brought to life as a dead person. Then, sometime later, my heart was circumcised. When I came to believe
with my new heart, I was sealed with the promise of the Holy Spirit. There are more moving parts than just coming
to believe. Things that HAD TO precede that. People deny these things. They make the natural man with his stony
heart capable of doing that which Scripture PLAINLY says he is incapable of doing. Some say baptism saves you.
I was already saved before I got water baptized. Now you are talking about being beaten as if it proves something.
I was brought to life as a dead person. Then, sometime later, my heart was circumcised. When I came to believe
with my new heart, I was sealed with the promise of the Holy Spirit. There are more moving parts than just coming
to believe. Things that HAD TO precede that. People deny these things. They make the natural man with his stony
heart capable of doing that which Scripture PLAINLY says he is incapable of doing. Some say baptism saves you.
I was already saved before I got water baptized. Now you are talking about being beaten as if it proves something.
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I wonder too if @Kroogz agrees with HiIsHere that personal revelation is worthy of being
scorned and mocked, despite it being a necessary part of the salvation process as per Scripture.
2 Peter 3:3 knowing this first: that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts
Walking after their false doctrines, too. It makes sense to include them as a lust, especially since they're connected to pride.
scorned and mocked, despite it being a necessary part of the salvation process as per Scripture.
2 Peter 3:3 knowing this first: that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts
Walking after their false doctrines, too. It makes sense to include them as a lust, especially since they're connected to pride.