where Adam and Eve overwhelmed?
Jesus did not overwheim people with His presence, so why could not God come to us as Christ?
Jesus came as a man just like the rest of us and Adam and Eve is allegorical. Adam is everyman. We are all born spiritually alive and then like Adam we fail to love others--obey God and become spiritually death. We kill our own soul with our own sin. Ezekiel 18. Like Adam we are then spiritually dead but physcially alive and if we are to be recreated spiritually we must turn from wickedness to righteousness and allow God to reconnect us with life. Jesus taught about this as being born again.
__________________ I believe in a loving Creator who created us for the purpose of being capable of receiving and responding to the love of the Creator. Our first gift of life is temporary. If we attempt to fulfill our purpose of loving others, we have the hope of receiving a second gift of eternal life. There is no pain in the after life. If we do not receive the second gift, we are simply left with the first gift and will not exist after we die.
Dear bling. God DID COME to us in Christ, and what did we do?? God`s Plan to save Mankind is FOOLPROOF, only we cannot grasp it. I say this humbly and with love. Greetings from Emmy, sister in Christ.
Oh? Then why are we told to have faith? Why is faith talked about as belonging to the individual person, ie. Abraham's faith?
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Don't mess with Yoda!
"There are only two kinds of people in the end: those who say to God, "Thy will be done," and those to whom God says, in the end, "Thy will be done.""
-C.S. Lewis, The Great Divorce (emphasis mine)
"You must be imaginative, strong-hearted. You must try things that may not work, and you must not let anyone define your limits because of where you come from. Your only limit is your soul."
-Chef at the beginning of Ratatouille
Oh? Then why are we told to have faith? Why is faith talked about as belonging to the individual person, ie. Abraham's faith?
Galatians 3:7-9
Know then that it is those of faith who are the sons of Abraham. 8 And the Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the gospel beforehand to Abraham, saying, “In you shall all the nations be blessed.” 9 So then, those who are of faith are blessed along with Abraham, the man of faith.
Galatians 3:28-29
There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is no male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus. And a if you are Christ's, then you are Abraham's offspring, heirs according to promise.
__________________ To be reprobate is to be left in sin, not pushed or forced to sin. R. C. Sproul.
Galatians 3:7-9
Know then that it is those of faith who are the sons of Abraham. 8 And the Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the gospel beforehand to Abraham, saying, “In you shall all the nations be blessed.” 9 So then, those who are of faith are blessed along with Abraham, the man of faith.
Galatians 3:28-29
There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is no male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus. And a if you are Christ's, then you are Abraham's offspring, heirs according to promise.
That does not have anything to do with faith being a gift.
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"There are only two kinds of people in the end: those who say to God, "Thy will be done," and those to whom God says, in the end, "Thy will be done.""
-C.S. Lewis, The Great Divorce (emphasis mine)
"You must be imaginative, strong-hearted. You must try things that may not work, and you must not let anyone define your limits because of where you come from. Your only limit is your soul."
-Chef at the beginning of Ratatouille
Why does it say "of" faith instead of "have" faith?
Because it's an English translation.
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Don't mess with Yoda!
"There are only two kinds of people in the end: those who say to God, "Thy will be done," and those to whom God says, in the end, "Thy will be done.""
-C.S. Lewis, The Great Divorce (emphasis mine)
"You must be imaginative, strong-hearted. You must try things that may not work, and you must not let anyone define your limits because of where you come from. Your only limit is your soul."
-Chef at the beginning of Ratatouille
John 6:65
No one can come to Me unless it is granted him by the Father.
John 6:37
All that the Father gives to Me will come to Me.
This isn't about predestination, it's about whether or not faith is a gift. Not grace, not mercy, not forgiveness: faith.
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Don't mess with Yoda!
"There are only two kinds of people in the end: those who say to God, "Thy will be done," and those to whom God says, in the end, "Thy will be done.""
-C.S. Lewis, The Great Divorce (emphasis mine)
"You must be imaginative, strong-hearted. You must try things that may not work, and you must not let anyone define your limits because of where you come from. Your only limit is your soul."
-Chef at the beginning of Ratatouille
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