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Good News Hard to Believe! And what might that good news be? That sinners were reconciled to God while they were still His enemies! Paul declares: Think about what Paul is saying! These were not people who had first made themselves godly, repented, or believed and then persuaded God to...

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It doesn't matter what you say, It matters what the text says explicitly. What characterizes the world of 2 Cor 5:19 ?

Thats correct, preserved is in the perfect tense, and all teachings should be affirmed with a biblical based synthesis with other scripture, thats the Divine order for the man of God 2 Tim 3:16-17 16 All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for...

omc I have already been over all this before, maybe you need to read my thread here: https://christianchat.com/threads/reconciled-to-god-while-enemies.223474/ Therein I have labored abundantly on this subject.

Yes I just showed you what reconciled means in Rom 5:10 ! What you just blow it off just like that ?

No Im not, Im simply reinforcing it, its often overlooked and neglected, that the reconciliation preached here announces the non imputation of sin to this particular world.

Omc, You claim that I am "importing a conclusion" into these texts, and you want them to stand in a state of suspended animation where the warnings have an "equal force" to challenge or reshape the promises. But you are suffering from a profound blind spot regarding the nature of progressive...

Its a biblical view, didnt you see the scriptures. Even when people Christ died for are unbelievers, and at enmity against God, even then they are reconciled to God by His death That word reconciled/ katallassō means: return to favour with, be reconciled to one to receive one into favour...

And Sainthood begins in the eternal phase of Salvation in Election, a setting apart Jude 1:1 and then in the Legal Phase at the Cross of Christ, where the sinner He died for is Sanctified once and for all Heb 10:10, hence they are preserved forever, they were preserved even when unbelievers and...

Omc, You accuse my framework of "resolving the tension too quickly" and claim that my conclusions are merely one of many valid opinions that sincere scholars have debated for centuries. But your argument relies on a fundamental misunderstanding of what a biblical contradiction is: you are...

The Saints of God are preserved forever, an unshakeable reality that fundamentally guarantees their eternal security. As it is explicitly declared in Psalm 37:28: Scripture explicitly defines "His Saints" as the total sum of His sovereignly chosen Elect—those whom He set an unalterable...

Omc, You claim that I am "importing a conclusion" into these texts, and you want them to stand in a state of suspended animation where the warnings have an "equal force" to challenge or reshape the promises. But you are suffering from a profound blind spot regarding the nature of progressive...

JimiSurvivor, Your appeal to Jude 3 and your quote from John Calvin’s Institutes completely backfire when subjected to historical and textual reality. You claim that because the Early Church Fathers (ECF) often used language that emphasized human choices, the doctrines of total inability and...

ScooterJackson, The absolute core of the matter is that sticking with the Lord Jesus means trusting exclusively in the absolute perfection of His finished work, rather than your own ability to maintain your standing. When you frame sticking with Christ as a variable, independent human...

@OMC You say my framework must explain why Hebrews 3, John 15, and 2 Peter 2 are written as warnings without simply redefining the people being warned. I agree. But we must also explain these warnings alongside Scripture’s promises that Christ preserves His sheep. My argument is not that the...

ScooterJackson, You accuse me of "reformed double speak," yet your entire rebuttal rests on the classic synergistic error of confusing the evidential traits of an already-saved son with the conditions required to become one. You claim that your system doesn't "earn" salvation, but the moment...

OMC, you have stated the question clearly, but you have not demonstrated that my framework controls the text rather than being derived from it. I agree that the labels “Eternal Phase,” “Legal Phase,” “Vital Phase,” and “Practical Phase” are theological categories. I have never claimed that...

Omc, You accuse me of imposing a "theological construct" onto the text, yet your own critique relies on the standard synergistic myth that Scripture consists of isolated, disconnected verses floating in a vacuum. You claim my five-phase framework is merely an "inference," but constructing a...

The Identifying trait of the True Israel of God, the foreknown People of God, which is also Israel, is not ethnicity or genealogy according to the flesh, but Faith by the promise and power of God[ See Jn 1:13] She is not of the flesh, but of the Spirit. The Nation of Israel was not a Nation...