Consider that Acts 2:38-39 is a conditional promise. And that if you really compare this scripture with Rom 8:30, and emphasize the word "call" "called" you cannot help but come to a specific conclusion.Thank you for your answer my friend.
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Consider that Acts 2:38-39 is a conditional promise. And that if you really compare this scripture with Rom 8:30, and emphasize the word "call" "called" you cannot help but come to a specific conclusion.Thank you for your answer my friend.
No. But the Father is not the Son. The Son left heaven to become the God-man. There are three Persons, but only one God in the Godhead.
Well, gentleman, it all reminds me of Scripture on two levels. When people heard Jesus say they can't come to him, are unable, they stopped following him; John 6:63-66. Contextually they were unbelievers. Note John 6:64; John 6:67ff, and John 6:69 specifically. So, our first set of unbelievers.
Over and again Paul preached the Gospel, and some would not believe his message. They hated his message just like those who left Christ hated his message. These unbelievers would beat him, stone him, lie about him, make false assertions, level false accusations, and insult him.
Of course Christ was the forerunner to much more violent abuse for preaching the Gospel we preach, and died on a cross like a common criminal only to raise again three days later.
We see the very same thing in this thread. Nothing new under the sun. We are dealing with unbelievers that do not like or believe the parameters of the Gospel of Christ. So they don't believe what is shown them, they twist the word, our words, then call others Satan, other names, they lie, falsely accuse and insult.
Yep. Nothing new under the Sun brothers, but keep on preaching that Gospel. Some will believe. God chose them to salvation prior to the foundation of the world.
I don't give what @CoreIssue is saying a lot of weight as it appears to me to be pure conjecture.The Bible already used and defined the term son of God in Adam.
His flesh was begotten/formed by God from the ground. Then his spirit was breathed into that flesh by God.
So a process and definition is already given in the Bible.
God formed the flesh of Jesus Christ in Mary from the elements of the earth in her. Then the second person of the Trinity entered that flesh making a living person.
Hence God became his father and he the son of the father. But not until the incarnation. Prior was eternal promise, not reality.
The Bible says both Jesus and Adam are son of God.
When saved we become sons of God when the Holy Spirit enters our spirits in our flesh bodies.
There is an absolute pattern and process here.
And here is another example where the KJV confuses people. Only in the KJV does it call Angels sons of God.
Adam was begotten by God. The flesh of Christ begotten by God. Our glorified bodies will be begotten by God. Our spirits are given by God.
Jesus Christ is 100% man in his flesh and 100% God. This flesh is not God. His spirit is not man. But together, as with our flesh and spirits, we are persons/souls.
I don't give what you are saying a lot of weight as it appears to me to be pure conjecture.
If you want to start another thread, perhaps we might discuss it there. Nevertheless, I don't have much more to say on the subject of the Trinity. I have said my piece in the following thread:I pointed out what the Bible says. Where did I error?
satan is not to be our master at all.Well, are we to hate Satan or love him less than God?[Matthew 6:24]
...thou shalt be saved.For example: "For if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus, and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead"
Now he's pretending to know Greek. Bros, he's just making up things as he goes along.
Oz,
When you go to websites that oppose the doctrines of grace ,keep in mind that those persons do not understand the teaching either.
If you need me to, I will shred the got questions responses when I get on my computer.
The five errors I listed are all in view.....starting with an unbiblical view of foreknowledge.
It is followed by ignoring the everyone believing in Jn 3:16.
Followed by the mangled 2 pet3:9...not one who Peter is speaking of will be lost....
Topped off with adding "the sins of" to 1jn2...notice those words are in italics as they are not in the text...
When God commands, He gives the ability to obey the command.Um, no.
Jesus says you are unable; John 6:44. You say you are. Wonder who to believe? Christ? Or you?
It seems to me that you are pitting Ezekiel 37 against Romans 5:2.He won’t argue my exegesis of Ezekiel 37(which utterly destroyed his stance) but quotes Romans 5:2 for the 1,675,876,087 time.
I've given you enough to chew on. You have some texts to address, and questions to answer if we're going to have productive dialog. This won't be a one-way street. Respectfully answer the texts after you spend a few days going over them, and commentary. I can supply you with material if need be, for free,Who's ...
Upgrade your hermeneutical principles and ask "How is this phrase used throughout Scripture?" Contextually
throughout Scripture it does not mean every single person that had ever lived. We can determine the same for the word "all" as it rarely if ever means every single person ever when speaking in soteriological contexts.
From a historical and cultural interpretation it, "the whole world" means all other nations, tongues, tribes &c other than just the Jews.
OzSpen,
[What's the point of evangelism if believers are unconditionally elected because of limited atonement and irresistible grace?]
We evangelize because that is the God ordained means to reach all of the elect worldwide.
The fact of unconditional election does not hinder evangelism. it gives it strength.
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9 Then spake the Lord to Paul in the night by a vision, Be not afraid, but speak, and hold not thy peace:
10 For I am with thee, and no man shall set on thee to hurt thee: for I have much people in this city.
He did not say all...He had much people. He knew them as sinners he purposed to save.
[If irresistible grace is biblical, no preacher can preach to a group of unsaved people to repent, seek forgiveness and have faith in Jesus alone.]
Sure they can an do. We do not know when the Spirit will regenerate someone.
[It would be fake preaching to call ALL to repent when ALL cannot come, according to Calvinism
Not at all... God has commanded all men to repent and believe the gospel.
P4T,
That's your Calvinism speaking.
OK, so you can't answer the texts given, won't study them, won't even address them, and won't receive their correction.