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Ah! So no, the 'for' is in fact 'for' and not 'because' (of course), but this speaks directly to what seems to be the issue. Not that they are already saved, but the people to whom Peter was speaking were asking the question (addressing Peter and the rest of the apostles as brothers, which...

Did I suggest (see what I did there?) otherwise? No, I did not. No, Peter encouraged, exhorted, urged sinners ~ and in these words we, by extension, are getting the same encouragement, exhortation, and urging ~ to respond positively to Acts 2:38, to God's invitation to repent of sin and...

Thank you, Scott. We do indeed serve a great and awesome God, do we not? The only thing I would add, though it really need not be, is that after Romans 7... there is Romans 8. "The great therefore." Which somehow, someway, Robert says "OSAS never gets to." I mean, how ridiculous a...

Exactly. We can even say that of God Himself. We can know about Him from what He says in His Word, but truly knowing Him is quite a different thing. I'm surely not discounting the importance of knowing about Him, but it is far more important to truly know Him. Grace and peace.

Nope. It's absolutely correct. I appreciate your thoughts, but what I said is absolutely correct. Read on... Ah, yes, Exodus 19:5-6. I can't tell you how glad I am that you quoted from this passage. This is exactly what Peter was referring to as I pointed out in the very post you were...

God's Israel, Enoch, was never consisted of ethnic Jews only. Even in the Old Testament, there were foreigners brought into the covenant community of Israel, which foreshadowed what was to eventually to come (Gentile believers being grafted in). Paul is very clear about Israel in Romans...

So, in a nutshell, Hidden In Him, is your point of contention predestination in and of itself, and also, single predestination versus double predestination? Grace and peace to you.

Yes, because volumes and volumes called biographies have been written about Abraham Lincoln. Not so, because there are no biographies out there of any of the apostles. We only have what they themselves wrote and news of a few of the things they did. Some of their actions, and the way they...

Agree. Absolutely. That's what I said in my previous post, basically. Peter exhorted. And still does, in Acts and in his epistles. He was urging his hearers (and us) to "work out (their/our) own salvation with fear and trembling," as Paul puts it in Philippians 2, and to "confirm...

No Christian, if they are indeed a Christian, ignores Peter in any way, or "skips Acts." Both are ridiculous suppositions. But Peter ~ like any mere man (or woman) ~ though he was a disciple of Christ Jesus and then an apostle, could not give commands in anywhere near the same sense that...

Agreed. Right now, our lives are hidden in Christ. Agreed... in this life. But one day we will be just like Him. Still not Him, of course, but just like Him. Ah, I don't think anyone is lowering the standard, Episkopos. At least I hope not. They couldn't even if they wanted to, but again...

Right, unintended, I get it. Yeah, that's... not your job. Or mine. :) Okay, but I think God prefers that we don't go around with our "bazooka of knowledge" and ~ figuratively speaking ~ blow people's heads off. :) Grace and peace to you.

The Holy Spirit can get rid of it... :) With God, all things are possible. :) Even overcoming sin (not totally in this life, but... you know what I mean). Yes, that's unfortunate. Grace and peace!

Nothing takes the LORD by surprise. :) I mean, Hidden In Him, you can accept or not accept what you want, of course, but actually, God is merciful not to tell us everything. Some things are not for us to know, as Jesus Himself says, and some knowledge is too heavy for us. We are not given...

You really shouldn't say that Lifelong_sinner. That's just terribly provocative, and not winsome at all. To me, at least, there's no grace in that kind of "response." Grace and peace to you.

Only because I answered it, really, in the previous post(s). But okay, here you go, and I'll throw your post no. 342 in for good measure: POST 342: It can, and is ~ both that God is one God in three Persons, and three persons in one God. This is His triune nature. Likewise, in a biblical...

Well, you think that for sure, and that's certainly your prerogative. Calvin lived several centuries ago; are you presuming to have known him in any personal sense at all? Certainly not. He was certainly strict about God's Word, because God Himself is strict. But you cannot (nor can anyone)...

And... "I am sure of this, that He Who began a good work in you will..." ~ WILL ~ "...bring it to completion at the day of Christ." (Philippians 1:6) And... "In him we have obtained an inheritance, having been predestined according to the purpose of Him Who works all things according to the...

No, not at all, really. These are, I guess, two different things. Everything He does He does for His glory, but ~ the but indicating a contrast ~ He cannot, will not, compromise His glory in any way ~ He shares it with no one, as He says through the prophet Isaiah. If he were to compromise...

How do you understand God's foreknowledge, 1stCL? And I'll refer specifically to Romans 8:29-30. Grace and peace to you.