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26th minute. uggh 
Am I missing it or does he totally disconnect God choosing the nation of Israel to the latter part of the chapter? To me it seems that he attempts to refute each point of the scripture but then ends up with a big pointless mess at the end, meaning that the chapter makes no point, except that it does not mean what it appears to.
Am I missing it or does he totally disconnect God choosing the nation of Israel to the latter part of the chapter? To me it seems that he attempts to refute each point of the scripture but then ends up with a big pointless mess at the end, meaning that the chapter makes no point, except that it does not mean what it appears to.
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The gospel tells us how we were saved (only by the shed blood of Christ) it does not tell us how to get saved by accepting, believing, repenting, or any other thing that man can do. All that are saved eternally were saved by Christ's work on the cross. When on the cross he said "it is finished", meaning that the work that his Father sent him to do was finished, John 6:37-40. His sacrifice on the cross was to God, for God's acceptence, not to man for man's acceptence.
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There are many called, but few chosen. This was talking about the wedding of Christ to his bride, the church. All of those called were born again children of God. The few chosen are those that God has revealed the truth. Jesus said "I am the way, THE TRUTH, and the life. The one of God's elect that did not have on the wedding garment was not clothed with the truth. God does not call anyone that is not his elect, and he does call oll of his elect. Rom 8:30, Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also CALLED, and whom he CALLED, them he also justified, and whom he justified, them he also glorified.
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Is the almighty God that we worship now subjected to will of any man?
You give the flesh too much power. Don't just quote bible verses out of a book that says out of it's own pages that ETERNAL LIFE IS NOT IN IT!
I ask yet again this question. If we cannot obtain heaven by works, why believe another can earn eternal punishment by the same means?
Since the divine "grace" in salvation is by definition something that God gives and exercises, and is not at all something produced or exercised by us, it would appear redundant and unnecessary to say that the "grace" is "not from yourselves." Certainly in that context the gift of God is referring to faith.
The idea that man has any positive role in his own salvation ("producing his own faith in Christ") contradicts the immediate context of the verse (2:1-10).
How does a man totally depraved, sinful and unable to please God can suddenly produce a faith through his "Free Will"?
"Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience: Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others. {desires: Gr. wills}" Ephesians 2:2-3
Do not you see that the "faith" of the Arminian theology makes man as a participant in the redemptive work of Jesus Christ on the cross?
"Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset {us}, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us, looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of {our} faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God"{author: or, beginner} Hebrews 12:1-2
Jesus Christ is the "author and finisher" of our faith. He is the origin and source of faith, the purpose of faith and who completes and perfects our faith. Anything contrary to this is anathema.
Okay.
"Unto all and upon all them that believe"
If you read what Paul said in verses 18 and 20, you will know that the righteousness of God through by faith in Jesus Christ is offered to all, ie now there is no difference between Jew and Gentile in this aspect or between any group of people for all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God.
Thus, the context is clear that "all" refers to group of people (Jews and Gentiles in that context) and not to all men.
Only those who are ordained to eternal life will trully believe. (John 6:37; John 10:27-29; Acts 13:48; Ephesians 1:4)
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God is soverign and not subjected to man's will. The KJV bible has nothing from cover to cover that will save us eternally, although it does tell us how we were saved and thats by the shed blood of Christ. All mankind were justly due eternal punishment, but because of the grace and mercy of God he choose some before the foundation of the world that he would save from that fate and told his Son to reconcile all those that he gave him which he did on the cross. Yes! eternal life is not in the KJV of the bible or in any other book! The inspired word of God are instructions as to how his elect should live their lives here in this world. It does not tell anyone how to GET SAVED.