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To say "dumb sheep" is actually redundant. If you're His sheep, He's saying you can't rely on your own understanding, because it is incorrect, faulty, unreliable, but you must trust Him, the Shepherd. In that way, yes, we are "dumb", "sheep"--"let the one who thinks he is wise according to this...

For those who brag about having been called, and about being elect, how often do you preach or follow Peter, who says, "be all the more diligent to confirm your calling and election"? To him, calling and election needs confirmation through correct behavior/reasonable response to God's grace, but...

https://www.christianityboard.com/threads/osas-gnostic-heresy.63913/page-57#post-1894459 @th1b.taylor I couldn't respond directly to the post, because the post had some formatting issues. You still haven't told me what you are disagreeing with or why. What it sounds like is you disagree with...

Romans 12 1Therefore I exhort you, brothers, through the compassions of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy to God, well-pleasing, which is your reasonable service. I saw a translation rendering it "in view of God's mercies" instead of "through the mercies of God"...

Please explain your reason for believing what I've said about the parable is "error". I don't get it : I literally said the same thing you just said (you've been forgiven, so you must forgive--otherwise, God will rescind His forgiveness).

The same Church that preserved the Trinity, and all his favorite doctrines, also fought OSAS for its first few hundred years. LOL

The balance of evidence is on the side of rejecting OSAS, I think, even though maybe we should have a trust in God as if it were not the case.

Nope, just showing you what you were doing--emptily asserting this-and-that about what I'd said, all without offering any substantive argument. If you complain that what i said was me "being childish", and I was just showing you what you were doing, what are you saying about yourself?

You don't have to discuss anything here. No one is forcing you. Here's how it works: 1. You make your point. 2. Your point gets debunked. 3. You humble yourself and acknowledge you were wrong. Lol All the drama and gobbledygook your side is known for is not part of the process, and should...

@ChristianSoldier No one is forcing you to discuss. If you're going to keep emptily rattling off your views, not engaging, you would do better to see yourself out. At some point I'm going to put you on ignore. I can't stand being made to clarify, re-clarify, bc the other person is playing games.

Nope, He gave to each "according to his ability"--and the Lord faulted the servant for not doing what he could have done ("you should have brought My money to the bank so that I could at least have received interest"). Names can be blotted out of the Book of Life even if they had been written...

Ro 11 says Gentile believers, grafted in by faith, can also be cut off for unbelief. Goes with Deut 32:5 "they are NO LONGER His children because of their defect" (they used to becHis children, but are no longer His children), and Hos 1 describes the same dynamic.

I am going by Scripture. If you disagree with the Scripture, or my view of it, address what you opine are the errors in the exegesis. Coming on here and emptily rattling off your views without addressing specifics of what you claim are misinterpretations is not helpful.

1. You are speculating, whereas I read God sent angels to verify a thing. 2. You're not even approaching answering what I said. I'm seeing that you're not interested in actually discussing the subject, but in maintaining a mere cosmetic appearance of "discussing", and of having answers. I won't...

No, actually, as I have observed is your wont, you're reshaping what others say to preserve your view. You can reread and try again.

"Sticky Tape" : It's just called believing EVERYTHING written, not just strips of it here and there. I'm not saying it "now", as if I'm being caused to backpedal, I merely commented on it, and how it coalesces with Mt 18, because you raised the issue. The Lord gave the servant a measure of...

As everyone can read, this has already, more than once, been explained : "they are no longer His children because of their defect" (Dt 32:5), and Hos 1, prove that being a child of God is not a static irreversible reality. Romans 11 says the same. God doesn't cast His children into hell, they...

Let me help you : only believers are forgiven all their debt, thus in a position to have forgiveness rescinded. No, believers aren't cast into hell, because their talent, on loan from the Lord, is stripped away--their righteousness of faith is forgotten, as God warns (Ez 18:24), so that they...

1. I have proven my point, not merely "given it a good go". What I have said is plainly the case. 2. You said you do not dare to speculate about "the secret things [which] belong to the LORD", but you're speculating that "God doesn't respond to anything". Where does Scripture say that? God sent...

So, in your view, God forgave the servant, and then rescinded the forgiveness, because God made the servant not forgive, and then Jesus instructs behavior (ie, forgive others, or else God will rescind His forgiveness) all while knowing God may go ahead and override anyone trying to follow His...