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I'd have to humbly differ, bc branches in Him that do not abide are cut off and thrown in the fire; John teaches abiding in Him is by believing and loving (1 Jn 3:23,24), and "little children" are warned to both abide (lest they be ashamed and shrink back at His appearance), and to keep...

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I'm respecting the text. It says they believed, BUT they loved man's praise more than God's--ie, these two things were in conflict, and they chose not to confess Christ, but to deny Christ. It's simple, not mysterious. I don't conclude what you conclude. This discussion is centered on John's...

Right, so it sounds like you affirm both that eternal life does hinge on faith, and it hinges on good works, but whoever "truly" believes will inevitably, bc they're born of God, do good deeds that eternal life hinges on. Is that correct?

Partly, I meant that Christ, and faith in Christ, accomplishes a lot of things, not just forgiveness.

Well, Scripturally, that formulation has no justification. Already mentioned John 12. The leaders believed, but that faith didn't result in eternal life (Jn 12).

As stated, I have studied "all God's counsel" on this issue for decades, and made many many threads discussing the same--in fact, this is my first and only thread where I'm trying to stick to John. OK, so just bc you want to doesn't mean you do it, so works don't automatically flow from faith...

Irrespectively, I appreciate you and @PS95 interacting.

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If you've read, I'm sticking with John (Gospel and Epistles) for this thread. Want is not the same as actually obeying. If you've read, you will know I already went the route of obedience, and, still, God rejected it, bc I didn't do it out of 100% love (I detected no reason, in Scripture, for...

As previously stated, there is no answer in #414 (in fact, you've admitted you do not see a need to reconcile the two ideas), and, as stated, I've already made many posts where all the Scriptures were taken into consideration, and I have spent decades studying the entirety of the Scriptures, so...

Thanks for taking your time, but I can't agree with the idea that "true faith invariably works", bc John's Gospel says that many of the leaders believed, but they would not confess Him. You may be hitting upon something that has some angle of truth to it, but, strictly speaking, it is not true...

1. So, I'll put your way of reconciling them as rejecting the idea that they even need reconciling. 2. Reconcile something that isn't in the same category? If eternal life is said to hinge on the one, how can it hinge on the other--how are they different categories? How is it a gift when you're...

Wait, are you talking about Catholics? Lol

Remember he asked me to explicate the issue I was having with reconciling the two--I am not able to arrive at a firm conclusion, so I'm not asserting there is or isn't a free lunch. Also, I could imagine someone arguing that it isn't a free lunch because God paid a high price in order to give...

In John's Gospel, there was a free lunch (Jn 6) lol

OK Remember, I am soliciting peoples' opinions on how to reconcile the two, so, since you don't see a need to reconcile the two, and have no answers to that effect, how were you hoping to help? If eternal life hinges exclusively on believing in Christ, that happens in a single moment, and you...

Abraham didn't do that, he found how both seemingly mutually exclusive propositions told to him could be true.

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It is my request for this thread. I have had so many threads where I've been open to all the Scriptures being discussed, but, here, I'm wanting to focus only on John's Gospel. It is my request for this thread. Would you please entertain me?