Yes, we have entered into salvation because of our faith, is what this is saying. We gained access to grace by faith.No grace = no salvation. Romans 5:2 is written to believers, not mankind en toto.
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Yes, we have entered into salvation because of our faith, is what this is saying. We gained access to grace by faith.No grace = no salvation. Romans 5:2 is written to believers, not mankind en toto.
This does not bear even responding to you except by my prayer for you in tongues.Brother, you just contradicted yourself. 2 Peter 1:20. Taking a verse on its own is the very definition of a private interpretation.
2 Corinthians 3:13-18
We clearly see he is talking about speaking plainly of Jesus. The rest of the verse clarifies this.
2 Timothy 3:16 clearly shows that all Scripture [as a whole, not each individual Scripture] is profitable for Doctrine, reproof, correction and instruction.
The apostles used great plainness of speech.
2Co 3:12, Seeing then that we have such hope, we use great plainness of speech:
Now, you may want to interpret that by some other scripture so that it means something entirely different than what it says.
But the scripture itself tells you that you cannot do it that way. I would point out that it is also written:
2Pe 1:20, Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation.
Now, we can indeed receive teaching and added insight by comparing spiritual thing with spiritual; however, the new interpretation will never nullify the original interpretation, i.e. what the scripture says by itself as it stands on its own.
Regeneration is being born again. Look up anothen. Salvation is being saved from your sins. Regeneration and salvation are not the same thing. They happen simultaneously, but are not the same.Salvation is being born of God. The cause of salvation is receiving Him.
It does not say our faith. Look it up again.Yes, we have entered into salvation because of our faith, is what this is saying. We gained access to grace by faith.
That is correct.then God loves and hates the wicked simultaneously.
Or, the correct view, world does not mean all whoever lived.
Again my friend, you are placing the cause before the effect.Salvation is being born of God. The cause of salvation is receiving Him.
Regeneration is being born again. Look up anothen. Salvation is being saved from your sins. Regeneration and salvation are not the same thing. They happen simultaneously, but are not the same.
It does not say our faith. Look it up again.
God does not hate and love ppl at the same time my friend. That flies in the face of Romans 9:21-24.That is correct.
You mean the Calvinistic view.
I won't argue with this. But I will say that Romans 5:2 holds true...that we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand.Again my friend, you are placing the cause before the effect.
In Ezekiel 37, he comes upon a valley of very dry bones. These bones had no way of ever living again, left to themselves. That was us in our lost condition.
God commands Ezekiel to say to these bones ‘O dry bones, hear the word of the LORD.’ Here we see God commanding something they can’t do. How can these dead, sunbleached bones hear the word of the Lord? Left in this state, they can’t. It takes God to take the initiative and do for them what they can’t do themselves. God said ”Behold, I will cause breath to enter you that you may come to life. I will put sinews on you, make flesh grow back on you, cover you with skin and put breath in you that you may come alive; and you will know that I am the LORD.’”
As Ezekiel commands, he hears a great noise, rattling of bones, bone coming to its bone, then sinew and flesh. Yet, they lack one very important thing, breath of life. God then commands Ezekiel to prophecy for the wind to blow upon them. As he prophecies, the wind blows upon them and they come to life and stand upon their feet.
This is how the gospel works. As we speak the word of God, He quickens whosoever He wills[John 5:21] and they come to life.
Regeneration is being born again. Salvation is being saved from sin. Again, faith is not innate in man, but is a gift, a fruit of the Spirit.[Galatians 5:22]Regeneration and being born again and being saved are synonymous.
In the following verses, whose faith is being required?
Act 16:30, And brought them out, and said, Sirs, what must I do to be saved?
Act 16:31, And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house.
It seems to me that the Philippian jailer is being called upon to exercise his faith and to place it squarely on Jesus Christ for salvation.
Here, Jesus is not exercising His faith so that the Philippian jailer might be saved. The Philippian jailer is being called upon to exercise personal faith in Jesus.
And back to the original point, we gain access to grace through the faith that we exercise; and therefore the order in salvation is that faith comes first, by which we gain access into grace, which is equated to salvation in Ephesians 2:8-9.
He loved us while we were yet sinners according to Romans 5:8. How does this apply to verses that you might bring up on how God hates the sinner?God does not hate and love ppl at the same time my friend. That flies in the face of Romans 9:21-24.
And misapplying that verse over and over again does not buttress your belief.I won't argue with this. But I will say that Romans 5:2 holds true...that we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand.
The point was that Jesus did not personally exercise His faith to save the Philippian jailer; but the Philippian jailer was being called upon to exercise his faith.If one has a fruit of the Spirit, they have the Spirit. When the Philippians jailer exercised faith, it shows it was the Spirit at work in regenerating him.
Since I am not misapplying it, it does substantiate my belief quite nicely.And misapplying that verse over and over again does not buttress your belief.
This is applied to His sheep.He loved us while we were yet sinners according to Romans 5:8. How does this apply to verses that you might bring up on how God hates the sinner?
No, sorry, it doesn't substantiate anything other than perhaps you cannot discern truth in your quasi gospel.Since I am not misapplying it, it does substantiate my belief quite nicely.
Regeneration is being born again. Salvation is being saved from sin.
Again, faith is not innate in man, but is a gift, a fruit of the Spirit.[Galatians 5:22]
Once gifted faith, it’s theirs to exercise. He exercise the gifted faith he received from God.The point was that Jesus did not personally exercise His faith to save the Philippian jailer; but the Philippian jailer was being called upon to exercise his faith.
And therefore it is not only the faith of Christ that saves us (in the sense of Christ exercising faith); but it is our faith that saves us, that we place in Jesus Christ.
You are misapplying it, but sadly you can’t and/or won’t see it.Since I am not misapplying it, it does substantiate my belief quite nicely.