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Indeed, we are the chosen, wheat among tares. All language was confounded by God at the tower of Babel. Now we need a translator, which is the spirit of God, that the truth should escape the ungodly. "“This is a hard saying; who can understand it?” When Jesus knew in Himself that His disciples...

All things were completed in Christ before the foundation of the world. Are you in Christ? Can you hear me now?

No...we, if we are "in Christ", have been made new - "not of this world", as we once were. This is "all truth" which is the promise of Christ.

I covered all this in my other post (#299 above). But the point is, if we look at created time as the only reality, then we are not even considering election legitimate or even possible...which is wrong, because it denies the timeless reality of God. So, my comments are to explain that...

I may have to take them one at a time: Understanding just what "I am" means, is key. With God "I am" for our use here, means that He is the same yesterday, today, and forever. But that is a translation of God's timeless reality, into the timeline of this created world which exists apart from...

That was an angel that spoke to John's father...not John being filled with the Holy Spirit. Anyway, the spirit of God "inspired" men of God during those earlier times...but the Holy Spirit was not sent to those who believe in Christ until after His ascension.

I was indeed addressing that specific post. But if there is an overshadowing point I have missed, my apologies, perhaps you could clarify it for me or direct me to the post where it is explained.

The blindness placed upon Israel, was place on Israel and not on Christians...which was done to prolong the times, until the times of the gentiles are fulfilled. The blindness placed upon Christians, has been the result of preferring to believe a lie: that Christ would come again in the flesh...

The world is not what it seems, but was complete in God before the foundation of it. Therefore, we can stay within the bubble of what was "created" apart from God whom describes Himself as the "I am", meaning timeless. Or we can join God and see things as they truly are, meaning: timeless, just...

The answer is summed up in these two verses, as the conflict between the flesh and the spirit, and those who live accordingly, being children of the flesh or children of the spirit of God: 1 Corinthians 15:45 And so it is written, “The first man Adam became a living being.” The last Adam became...

Why do you doubt? "Christian" is defined differently by different people: Some would say a Christian is one who follows hoping to learn the truth. Some would say a Christian is one who believes, and therefore knows the truth...but waits upon the Lord to be sealed in the day of the Lord, at His...

Oz, Just as we read from left to right, it is natural for us to view salvation, election, and evangelism, as the result of what we do through the course of time. But that is not what the world is. The world is "I am" (not I will be) telling His story. History is His story. But it is a story...

Proverbs 27:17 As iron sharpens iron, So a man sharpens the countenance of his friend. ...And Stone sharpens both.

True. This is a type of blindness, not unlike the blindness placed upon Israel until the times of the gentiles are fulfilled.

I never said that...and I have clarified.

Being born again of the spirit of God is more wide spread than just Nicodemus. In fact, all who would enter the kingdom of heaven must be born of the spirit, for flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom. Not only Jesus explained, but also Paul, who went on to say that the old man of flesh...

You lost me.. One can only be born [again] of the spirit of God once: first the flesh, then the spirit. But I'm still not sure that is what you are saying.

It is not God who changes....but...hopefully, people. You know, like, "repent", "a new creation", "all things have been made new", etc..

Yes and no. Yes, there are things that still are an offence. But no, not all things are an offence since Christ overcame the world. Much of what was once an offence, is now captured territory, the spoils. But it is important to make the distinction, that what we do, we do unto our Lord...

Yes, Jesus did say what I said. But to be clear, what point specifically are you referring to?