Confess, Repent, and Believe.
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All I can say to that is -----Satan has them in his grip and has twisted their minds into deep deception ---and they are not alone ---many are being deceived ------
I agree with confessing Jesus is God, that He died and rose again, that by believing in Him we have eternal life.
Revelation 3:20 though... the context is the figurative door to the local 'small c' church.
Have a look at the surrounding verses..'church ' here is in the context of the 7 churches in Revelation. Local and visible.
So to get what you are posting I think it's better to use John 3:16, Romans 10 and such like that are clear eternal life verses.
Revelation 3:20 though... the context is the figurative door to the local 'small c' church.
Have a look at the surrounding verses..'church ' here is in the context of the 7 churches in Revelation. Local and visible.
So to get what you are posting I think it's better to use John 3:16, Romans 10 and such like that are clear eternal life verses.
Salvation=deliverance, saved=delivered, save=deliver, according to Greek translation.
Faith does deliver (save) the born again child of God many times, as he sojourns here on earth.
The trouble that the "works salvation" (deliverance) people, who are born again, is that they apply all of the salvation (deliverance) scriptures to be referencing eternal deliverance, witch is a false doctrine that will teach them that eternal deliverance is accomplished by their works.
The Holy Spirit is usually given the very instant one receives holy Baptism. This is called Baptismal Regeneration and was held by the Early Church. Saint Peter teaches it when he says: “Repent and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins. And you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit." (Acts 2:38)
Later in Acts, the teaching is repeated by Saint Paul, when he relates: "16 And now what are you waiting for? Get up, be baptized and wash your sins away, calling on his name." (Acts 22:16)
Why did the Holy Spirit descend upon Christ when He was Baptized? Christ, being God, always had the Holy Spirit in Him. It was God's way of showing us that Baptism, done in the Name of the Trinity, gives us the Holy Spirit when received in faith.
Later in Acts, the teaching is repeated by Saint Paul, when he relates: "16 And now what are you waiting for? Get up, be baptized and wash your sins away, calling on his name." (Acts 22:16)
Why did the Holy Spirit descend upon Christ when He was Baptized? Christ, being God, always had the Holy Spirit in Him. It was God's way of showing us that Baptism, done in the Name of the Trinity, gives us the Holy Spirit when received in faith.
Just read the OP and agree.
1 Jn 1:
"8 If we claim to be without sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us. 9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness. 10 If we claim we have not sinned, we make him out to be a liar and his word is not in us."
Hence if we lost the Holy Spirit after Baptism, for e.g. by apostasy from the Lord, we can always back to Him, by believing in Him as Our Lord and Savior, confessing our former sins, and repenting of them. Then, the Blood of Jesus washes them all away, as the above passage says.
But in Baptism, the Holy Spirit is given for the first time. And the Early Church understood the Seal to also be given in Baptism, which is why Baptism is never done a 2nd time, even if someone who has apostatized now comes back to Christ. There is One Baptism, as the Word says, so it is not repeated. Circumcision is also called a Seal. A Seal is an external sign or symbol of an internal change. Baptism/Circumcision etc.
1 Jn 1:
"8 If we claim to be without sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us. 9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness. 10 If we claim we have not sinned, we make him out to be a liar and his word is not in us."
Hence if we lost the Holy Spirit after Baptism, for e.g. by apostasy from the Lord, we can always back to Him, by believing in Him as Our Lord and Savior, confessing our former sins, and repenting of them. Then, the Blood of Jesus washes them all away, as the above passage says.
But in Baptism, the Holy Spirit is given for the first time. And the Early Church understood the Seal to also be given in Baptism, which is why Baptism is never done a 2nd time, even if someone who has apostatized now comes back to Christ. There is One Baptism, as the Word says, so it is not repeated. Circumcision is also called a Seal. A Seal is an external sign or symbol of an internal change. Baptism/Circumcision etc.
Maybe they think they are superior morally, but are they? Encouraging someone to go into a trans lifestyle and to eventually have important parts of their body cut off is a bad thing to do. Encouraging women to get abortions, encouraging people to go into an LBGT lifestyle... these aren't good things.
While you could find a given individual who professes to be a Christian and is socially conservative who lives an immoral lifestyle, living in drunkenness or adultery, or whatever, painting conservative Christians, in general, as morally worse than true blue secular Democrats, morally, seems quite unlikely.
I heard a researcher on the radio say that conservatives gave a higher percentage of their income to charities, especially church-going social conservatives. Ironically, conservatives gave a higher percentage of their income even to environmental causes. I have read stuff from left-wing Democrats that seem to imply the Republicans or Conservatives don't care about the poor because they don't support politicians who want certain big-government social programs. So there are progressives who think progressives are morally superior and more compassionate, but that doesn't seem to align with reality. Also, somehow supporting abortion is supposed to be more compassionate, somehow, I suppose. Supporting brainwashing vulnerable children into getting their private parts eventually chopped off is supposed to be more compassionate also. It's warped thinking.
While you could find a given individual who professes to be a Christian and is socially conservative who lives an immoral lifestyle, living in drunkenness or adultery, or whatever, painting conservative Christians, in general, as morally worse than true blue secular Democrats, morally, seems quite unlikely.
I heard a researcher on the radio say that conservatives gave a higher percentage of their income to charities, especially church-going social conservatives. Ironically, conservatives gave a higher percentage of their income even to environmental causes. I have read stuff from left-wing Democrats that seem to imply the Republicans or Conservatives don't care about the poor because they don't support politicians who want certain big-government social programs. So there are progressives who think progressives are morally superior and more compassionate, but that doesn't seem to align with reality. Also, somehow supporting abortion is supposed to be more compassionate, somehow, I suppose. Supporting brainwashing vulnerable children into getting their private parts eventually chopped off is supposed to be more compassionate also. It's warped thinking.
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You approached her and she saw no reason to have what you were offering.
There's many possible reasons for her rejection.
But you must've known her to present her with what you did. That means she probably knows you. It's what she knows of you that seems to speak volumes since she rejected you.
There's many possible reasons for her rejection.
But you must've known her to present her with what you did. That means she probably knows you. It's what she knows of you that seems to speak volumes since she rejected you.
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