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Someone else putting words in my mouth?
An example, "Positional Righteousness", people like that terminology, but I don't find in the Bible, do you?
Have you studied Gnosticism? What would you describe as the fundamental beliefs?
The question remains, how does the man, rendered dead, respond positively?
1 Timothy 1:5-6
I don't think his answer will be different than mine. By God's grace is a man able to respond with trust (if he wants to) to the testimony of the Holy Spirit. Inherent in the testimony of the Holy Spirit is the faith, the surety, of the message being spoken. Some choose to retain that message they now know to be true in believing. Most do not and reject what they know to be true in willful unbelief.
You are not addressing the Scriptures I'm posting, and exegeting, and are instead trying to negate them by other Scriptures. You would benefit more, I think, from examining the passages I post, and seeing if what I say about them is true.
So, let's come back to . . .
See, I told you it's a waste of time to discuss something that doesn't matter to salvation anyway.
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I think the answer to this is in Titus, "the grace of God unto salvation has appeared to all men . . ."
Good plan. It's a meaningless argument. You'll put your scriptures up against mine and nothing will be resolved. But what we do agree on and what actually matters is that only those who endure in faith to the very end will be saved when Jesus comes back. That's the thing the church needs to focus on. If a person wants to believe that's a given and will happen automatically by virtue of being a genuine believer, then good. And if a person wants to believe they chose whether or not to believe to the very end, that's good too. As long as we all understand the necessity to keep believing and encourage each other in that all will be good.
I would summarize it as 'since the flesh counts for nothing (John 6:63) you can indulge it all you want and doing that will have no bearing whatsoever on your spirit and salvation'.
Just keeping the record straight, this is AGAIN you putting words into my mouth. Hardly an honest discussion tactic, now is it? I suppose this isn't willful then.
I'm confident that you said you believe the genuine believer will without doubt believe to the very end. Bye, bye.
Willfully sinning is not resting in the gospel of grace. God's kindness is not defined as letting you live in sin in the name of grace. Every moment you are in sin you are out of God's rest. And if you are willfully sinning you're treading on the ground of outright rejecting God's rest. And God will banish you there if you do it long enough.
