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You inherit from your Father. Your flesh cannot beirng you into adoption by the Father, only being reborn into HIS family can do that. What we are like once we are HIS inheritors, whether in a heavenly body or pure spirit, is imaterial. How's that! ? :) Peace,

Wow, that quote, even if not exagerated with emotionalism, is a description of fascist life in the mid-1930-50s Germany. It has little to do with modern democracies nor those who cry "fascist" to justify breaking the law. Ted

OK, thanks...

You don't like the logic or whatever of my effort, post #14? I agree He is 100% sovereign yet we are 100% responsible for our ending place in the universe and the creation of evil... I just filled in some missing pieces. :) Peace, Ted Only if I keep your doctrinal interpretation...which I...

I'm sorry if this is upsetting but the hardness of your believing is due to the hardness of your heart. If you are broken by guilt and reborn in repentance it is much easier. It may seem like you are desperately seeking but... So don't seek to believe, pray for the grace of repentance and a...

If there is no more sacrifice for a sin.... they are never redeemed, right? If they are eternal, their punishment therefore must be eternal. If they are not eternal but get immortality from the tree of life or salvation or whatever, then their punishment can have an end. <shrug> Peace on us...

A good essay here, Netchaplin...I gave you a tick for it, :) I know "the sin committed is never willful because the Spirit will ensure it is always accompanied with remorse and should be confessed." is to manage the meaning of: “If we sin willfully after we have received the knowledge of the...

Some are discussed in Post #304, this topic... People use John 3:13 to answer me when I am not talking about the dead... shrug. Peace, Ted

Thank you, can you explain how that works please? Ted

Ahhh, yes, I'm curious. does your answer mean you don't know or that in your opinion it is hidden to everyone? Well there is an even harder question that I think HE wants us to answer by studying HIS attributes... Would the GOD who is love create a person whom HE knew before the creation would...

Know (knew) does not mean to know about... Neither does foreknew. Romans 8:29 - For whom HE did foreknow, HE also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of HIS Son. From this verse we can see that the predestination of the elect is based on the foreknowledge of GOD. Now everyone admits...

Yet we know Enoch and Elijah were taken to heaven, but not to God's Throne like our Lord Jesus. Huge difference. How do we know that? :huh: Ted

Ever notice that Gen. 3:1 Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. Gen. 2:25 And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed. subtil and naked are the same word? Could it, therefore, be understood to say, "And they were both...

He said he didn't know - but you are sure!? Cool.... Meself, I think it is open and both are possible. You are correct of course, but if that is all it means, then that is like saying: "where ever you go, there you are!" a tautology. I think it means more than that and they go to where...

Jesus said: "Remember Lot's wife." Here is a study on our need for holiness and how it was taught at the very beginning...(taken from a longer work): God bless... Ted

Sounds like you are still pretty fiesty to me...if you go to Satan, who will save your from GOD Almighty when HE smites you? :) Ted

My years of thinking about this are many and do not include believing in contradictions, <shrug>. My observation was about your expression of ideas, not the ideas themselves. I believe in predestination, ordination, (both prographō and tassō), and election. I do NOT believe in unconditinal...

Wow this came up fast! :) Here's something to think about... Here is a study on our need for holiness and how it was taught at the very beginning...(taken from a longer work):

When the GOD who is love existed and loved each other before the creation...was there evil? Did they know good? Of course THEY knew good without any touch of evil at all! Once created, IF every single one of the spirits created in HIS image had chosen by their innermost free will desire to bow...

I wrote: seems to contradict: 'Lively Stone' answered: Forordained (quote 1), Predestined, (quote 2) and predetermined (quote 3) all have the same meaning in Christian theology... not 2 meanings or even 3. God bless, Ted