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There are saints/Christians everywhere then and today, not just at Ephesus. It is only that group that is "in Christ" and people are in that group today as back then. There is no verse that says John's life was all predetermined for him, he did all he did by choice.

Muslims, athiests, people in general are lost not because they have not heard the NT gospel but are lost because they sin. Many have heard the gospel but will be lost anyway for they sin for thier unbelief. Infants have no sins to cause them to be lost. There is a period in everyone's life...

To add another verse to what KingJ posted: Heb 11:4 "By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts: and by it he being dead yet speaketh." Rom 10:17 "So then faith cometh by hearing, and...

Total depravity is another invention of man. Gen 4:7 God demonstrates with Cain that Cain had the ability to chose to do well or not do well, therefore he was not totally depraved he could only choose to not do well. God even tells Cain to rule over sin, something Cain could not do if he were...

My point is that everyone is born innocent and not accountable to God's law. When I was born, I was not accountable to God's NT law, yet as I matured and learned right from wrong,then I became accountable and sin came alive in me. Again, Paul said "For without the law sin was dead" and "For I...

But God did have laws. Read Rom 1:20-32 where Paul talks about these Gentiles that lived prior to the law of Moses. And In Rom 2:14,15 "For when the Gentiles, which have not the law, do by nature the things contained in the law, these, having not the law, are a law unto themselves: Which shew...

I am at a loss at how you can say "The obedience of Abraham had nothing to do with any laws or moral commands" when his obedience to God's commands is the very reason he was reckoned righteous. Would he have been reckoned righteous and justifed if he had disobeyed the command to sacrifice...

John said sin is transgression of the law, so when one is conceived what transgression did that newly conceived person commit making him a sinner? What I have posted from Rom 7:8,9 speaks of an age of accountability. There is no certain age for people mature at diffeent rates/time. In this...

Hi God decreed creation, but God created man with free will and allows man to use that free will. So even though God knows what choices I will make He allows me to make those choices making me culpaple for my own choices. If God predetermined for me what I do then God is culpable for my...

There is nothing to be solved, the bible already tells us, as I post in post #2. God has foreknowledge but did not predetermine who is or is not in the group 'Christian". God has foreknowledge but foreknowledge does not necessitate predetermination.

Are you denying the bible teaches predestination?

But you already said "Though I will not (dare not) make the claim that one who has truly believed and been pierced to the heart, but not had any opportunity to be baptized due to death or other circumstances is not, or could not be saved." If water baptism is not necesary for some then it is...

The bible does teach predestination just not Calvinistic predestination. Before the world began, God foreknew a group that would be called Christians and God preordaiend this group to be saved. But God never determined what persons would or would not be in this group.

Eph 1:1-7 1-Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, to the saints which are at Ephesus, and to the faithful in Christ Jesus (Saints/Christians): 2-Grace be to you (Saints/Christians), and peace, from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ. 3-Blessed be the God and Father...

SImply is not possible. God's word says "sin is transgression of the law" and that "for where law is not, neither [is] transgression" So there would have been laws for them to be able to transgress. Noah was a preacher of righteousness and righteousness defines what is right and wrong. So...

My position still stands. Many of those that present the 'hard circumstances' do not believe that baptism is necessary to salvation under ANY circumstance. So they think if they can devise some method to get one saved without being water baptized by using some hard circumstance, then they...

Deut 30:19 and Eph 1:4 are not contradictory. God predetermined a group (not certain individuals) and God never predetermined what individuals would be in or out of that group. So individuals choose to be in that predetermined group or not by meeting the entrance conditions God has put in...

In Ephesians 1:1 Paul is addressing "saints" the "faithful in Christ Jesus" that is, he is addressing a group, the church not a certain individual. So when Paul says "us" he is referring to and included himself in this group of saints. Nowhere at all is Paul addressing a certain individual as...

The thief is not an example of NT salvation. Rom 10:9,10 does not exhaust all salvic verses. How about Mk 16:16; Acts 2:38? There is no mention of grace or the blood of Christ in Rom 10:9,10 In Acts 15:11 Peter speaking said Jews and Gentiles are saved in like manner. This means everyone...

Gen 6:5,6 "And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually." 2 Pet 2:5 "And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the...