Scott Downey
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You must be aided into salvation by Christ's (God's) help as people being naturally minded, Jesus says those of the world hate HIM and His Father as he tells them their works are evil, and they are evil works. The good works we do as believers, God prepared for us to do beforehand, so they did not originate with us, as we are His workmanship, we did not save ourselves or make us to be who we are, God did that for those who are the saved. Ephesians 2:10Blaming God for 'their' choice to sin is terrible error. God will punish someone because of... THEIR CHOICE to sin, but God is not THE ONE WHO CAUSED THEIR SIN.
So I suggest you re-adjust your thinking that is error.
And just in case you think to quote Isaiah 45:7 which says God creates evil, many don't understand that either, and the atheists love to use that against Christians.
God is NOT THE AUTHOR OF EVIL. Satan is. The original first sin was by Satan himself in the old world when he coveted God's Throne for himself. Then God brought this 2nd world earth age of today, and placed today's creation in bondage to corruption (including us), giving Satan authority to do evil, and also... to act as a punishing rod for God, upon the rebellious.
So when Isaiah 45:7 says God creates evil, it actually means God USES evil as a punishing upon the REBELLIOUS, for THIS world. In the world to come, that punishing will be over, as those who think to rebel will be no more.
So God authorizing Satan to do evil upon the rebellious as punishment, is that God doing it? or is it the rebellious doing it upon themselves? It's the rebellious that bring upon themselves! Keep in God's Grace = His blessings. Rebel against God = His punishment via His punishing rod, i.e., Satan.
Hebrews 2, Christ only aids to salvation the seed of Abraham, that would be those who are like Isaac was, a child of the promise God made that Abraham would have a son (an heir)
13 And again:
“I will put My trust in Him.”
And again:
“Here am I and the children whom God has given Me.”
14 Inasmuch then as the children have partaken of flesh and blood, He Himself likewise shared in the same, that through death He might destroy him who had the power of death, that is, the devil, 15 and release those who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage. 16 For indeed He does not [h]give aid to angels, but He does [i]give aid to the seed of Abraham. 17 Therefore, in all things He had to be made like His brethren, that He might be a merciful and faithful High Priest in things pertaining to God, to make propitiation for the sins of the people. 18 For in that He Himself has suffered, being [j]tempted, He is able to aid those who are tempted.
Thos whom he helps to salvation are the children God has given to Christ. Like Isaac was given as a promised child. God did this for the sake of Christ that He would have many brothers.
Romans 8
29 For whom He foreknew, He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the firstborn among many brethren.
Galatians 4
27 For it is written:
“Rejoice, O barren,
You who do not bear!
Break forth and shout,
You who are not in labor!
For the desolate has many more children
Than she who has a husband.”
28 Now we, brethren, as Isaac was, are children of promise. 29 But, as he who was born according to the flesh then persecuted him who was born according to the Spirit, even so it is now.
Galatians 3
29 And if you are Christ’s, then you are Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise.
If you have no faith, then you are not a child of God as you have not been born again, born into the family of God, you are an outsider without hope and without God in the world and dying you will perish in hell.
Only those who are OF GOD hear the words of Christ and believe in Him, as they have been born again and only they will be saved.
The world does not hear God speak, they do not listen to God, they have no fear of God for their soul.
John 8
23 And He said to them, “You are from beneath; I am from above. You are of this world; I am not of this world. 24 Therefore I said to you that you will die in your sins; for if you do not believe that I am He, you will die in your sins.”
25 Then they said to Him, “Who are You?”
And Jesus said to them, “Just what I have been saying to you from the beginning. 26 I have many things to say and to judge concerning you, but He who sent Me is true; and I speak to the world those things which I heard from Him.”
27 They did not understand that He spoke to them of the Father.
Then Christ tells them they are liars, as they have no love for the Son. If they loved God, they would have loved Christ, but they hated Him. They were not His children, given to Him by the Father, they were not of God (as in born of God by the Spirit) and so then could not hear Him and believe. You must first be born again to enter the kingdom of God, to know who the Son is.
Then they said to Him, “We were not born of fornication; we have one Father—God.”
42 Jesus said to them, “If God were your Father, you would love Me, for I proceeded forth and came from God; nor have I come of Myself, but He sent Me. 43 Why do you not understand My speech? Because you are not able to listen to My word. 44 You are of your father the devil, and the desires of your father you want to do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own resources, for he is a liar and the father of it. 45 But because I tell the truth, you do not believe Me. 46 Which of you convicts Me of sin? And if I tell the truth, why do you not believe Me?
47 He who is of God hears God’s words; therefore you do not hear, because you are not of God.”