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God's people are invited into the bosom of Christ. The remnant have entered in. God doesn't reject...people reject Him. So then this has nothing to do with God making a people His own who reject Christ.

You must get with reality...God is very patient and saves us with no strings attached. BUT, after a time in the boat, while Jesus is still helping others...the once saved person does nothing to help others over many years but thinks only of himself. I would say that EVENTUALLY God would give his...

Sinners are not bad people needing punishment, they are slaves in need of an exodus.

If you believe that then you don't believe we are each responsible for our own actions. A righteous person does righteous things. A person who is deceived does works of iniquity...not righteousness. There is no pretend/positional righteousness given to a person who doesn't behave righteously...

This kind of statement indeed dishonours God. The accepting and rejecting of Jesus happens every moment of every day. There is no empirical moment whereby an eternity rests on a verbal honouring of God. We will be judged by our works....not a religious decision or posturing. That is indeed...

The preaching of the cross is not about the free goodies for spoiled children that many put their belief to....it is the giving up of one's life to be lived through Christ. No one these days wants to lose their lives for Christ....they want more and they want it for free. Galatians 6:14 May I...

Salvation is conditional...not unconditional. There is a whole lot of if's in the bible. Do you deny that Paul said that just as the first people were called and rejected....so can we be? This calls for a serious and sober look at what we are doing with what we have been given. We will all be...

By your own declaration that we do nothing....Jesus has done everything for us. You see, you expose your thinking in this way.

Yes...the remnant of both becoming one in Christ.

See, this is the thing. God doesn't control. There are not puppet strings. Everyone does what they want to. God transcends even evil into a good outcome. He is God. I think you are confusing God with a tyrant. God is so far above controlling things. His love transcends all actions...even the...

We see that God has upped the ante. The barren woman is always the woman of promise. The roles have progressed into the Spirit. Just as Hagar was displaced by Sarah and the child of promise....so the spiritual children once called Israel have been displaced by the truly free children that are...

Not at all. But you are leaving Jesus as a footnote in your quest to follow Paul...whom you are misunderstanding. It is the modern view that we should listen to Paul and leave Jesus out. But there is a warning from Peter about those who ignore Jesus in order to claim things based on Paul who is...

And if any man hear my words, and believe not, I judge him not: for I came not to judge the world, but to save the world. I judge. John 12:48 He that rejecteth me, and receiveth not my words, hath one that judgeth him: the word that I have spoken, the same shall judge him in the last day. Jesus...

You are being misled by the wording of the bible that seems to fit with your idea. Many are called but few are chosen. There is a difference between being willing and being worthy. God knows who will run the race and win. These are the overcomers. God has predestined that there will be...

Another unique way that God works. God never does the same thing twice. He is the living God.

This kind of logic is what is infecting the powerless church of today. It's about a religious status that has no reality in the Spirit.

It doesn't go by control...but by transcendence. The devil still runs this world after all. But God is sovereign over it all.

Again with the church discipline. Are you thinking of a specific issue that is not being dealt with in your own experience?

In the end, yes. But don't underestimate what God does to do that. The world is in rebellion against God. People have little or no faith. Yet God transcends our faults to bring about His glory. So even our sins....God can use to bring about His will. His ways are higher than our own.

There is a misunderstanding about God that He is unable to have His will AND allow people to do as they wish. Only God can arrange things whereby mankind has a liberty of action...leading to chaos...but which God uses to perfection. If He couldn't do this, He would not be God. So then God's...