And your point ? Repentance is Given as a free gift to all Christ died for, His Sheep
Repentance is the Gift Of God !
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If repentance were a gift from God then ABSOLUTELY EVERYONE would receive this gift. Why? Because God commands all men everywhere to repent (Acts 17:30).
Which means that you are promoting a false doctrine.
My point is that Jesus said that not everyone who professes His name will inherit eternal life, only those who does His Father's will.
No one is arguing against that point.
What we are saying is that a gift, in order to be owned by the recipient, must be received.
Sorry that command is only for the all men God gave repentance to and they will repent because the command is made effectual.
It is received because God gave it. If God gave you a disease you would receive it.
Israel means a Servant of God, so Jacob became regarded as a servant of God = Israel, so he was a true Servant of God from that point on.
Jesus Christ is the King of Israel = the King of the Servants of God, because he is our Lord and Saviour of our Soul and when one is truly born again you know that such is a fact and so when the Soul is in tune with that reality, it as such can not loose the reality of that fact that is so.
I think that all people are called as to God, it's just that because of the Stain of original Sin that the person rebels against God, such is the power of the ego and the temptations of the Devil.
All people are created by God and capable of coming to know God, but due to the powers of the Devil and his works, thus Satanist being of this world that we are dealing with such a problem that leads many astray.
When I see one claiming to reject Jesus Christ I have to point out that they are a fool in fact, not to mention just a clown that is not worthy of God and they are just poor rat that is lead astray and as such they only will lead the blind, so as to fall off a cliff, such are a disaster and a curse and a blight.
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It's relevant because you espouse that obedience is not a condition of obtaining eternal life. Jesus says the opposite.
Faith is regarded as the substance of. as such is not blind faith at all because it has substance. it adds up in ones Soul and the lights go on that such is in fact true and that is how we arrive at reality of our Faith in such.
Bible says, "Oh you of little faith" ? so one has some faith in what we were informed about as in regards to the Bible or Priest or whoever talking about such things. so faith Biblically their is more to faith than one in that regards, what is hoped for is "The faith that can move mountains". one has to truly be born again to have that faith, it's because it's solid. so as one starts off with only being able to deal with consuming milk and can not deal with solid food.
A little faith is fine, better than noting, but such can grow. take the Bible for example, we see this in the parable of the sower, where the seed falls and some spring up directly but fail for they have not roots and some grow more so but are choked by the weeds and their faith dies. I have seen such of people who once I remember at Bible study had faith and now they have turned to me and said you still do not believe that rubbish do you and I say back, yes I sure do ! absolutely ! not to mention hat my faith has grown so much more so, that I have absolute faith in Jesus Christ, come hell of high water, as I live and breath he is within me and I am within him as one, so to speak. I have no doubts as to Jesus Christ at all what soever. I did not know him but I knew of him and then I came to know him, in fact he came to me in a flash and I instantly knew him just out of the blue, something much like as Saul experienced when he became Paul.
Grace however is due only to God working in us, that we abide such as that. such is not of our merit, it comes by our abiding in the Holy Spirit. or it does not come from us one can say. it's a work of God in us.
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Trust is blind
Hope is blind
Belief is blind
all three of those I can do, they come from me and I can put in something.
I cannot faith, I can’t put it into something, because it’s something given to us. It isn’t blind, we walk by faith (with understanding from God) not by sight, but we don’t walk blindly.
Hope is blind
Belief is blind
all three of those I can do, they come from me and I can put in something.
I cannot faith, I can’t put it into something, because it’s something given to us. It isn’t blind, we walk by faith (with understanding from God) not by sight, but we don’t walk blindly.
All men everywhere means exaclty what it says...all men everywhere...not just a specific group which would be a subset of "all".
The Elect consist of all men everywhere, and they will repent since they have been given repentance.
That is not true unless you are saying all men everywhere are the elect. Is that what you are saying? If it is, then you are espousing Universalism.
No all men are not the elect. The elect are only a remnant from amongst mankind.
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Children are born in sorrow, and He can harden a heart as easily as He can break it.
“For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of: but the sorrow of the world worketh death.”
2 Corinthians 7:10 KJV
“For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of: but the sorrow of the world worketh death.”
2 Corinthians 7:10 KJV
Repentance is a gift from God. Repentance means to turn from or forsake sin. This requires obedience (yielding to God), which you espouse is unnecessary to obtain eternal life; yet Jesus taught otherwise.
Proverbs 28
[13] He that covereth his sins shall not prosper: but whoso confesseth and forsaketh them shall have mercy.
no, grace and faith is given to those that Jesus died for as Savior, actually the restoration of the Life Adam originally had. repentance is something most any living creator can do. for example two males show contest for breading rights in a herd, but one repents of the idea for survival reasons.
in the case of the Almighty, it He might accept one's repentance is what is important and is a gift if you will.
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