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Recent content by FutureAndAHope

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    If We Go On Sinning

    I have never really thought about the way I dress, but it can hide attitudes of casualness. We only have to look to the Early Church to see the fear of the LORD when Ananias lied to the Apostles; he and his wife dropped dead. Act 5:5 Then Ananias, hearing these words, fell down and breathed...
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    Can someone with the Gift of Prophecy help me privately with a message that was told to me?

    Many of these types of things can be tested by the Word of God. I went through a period where I believed I had out sinned God's grace. I would always look to people to prophecy that this may not have been the case. God did send prophets, many of them, but they all prophesied one scripture. "I...
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    I'm not okay - Why?

    Life can get very dark, even as a Christian. My story was full of emotional turmoil, but eventually God brought me out to a good place. During the difficulties, I considered ending it all. But now I am glad I did not. At the time, I was devastated by continual relationship failures. But now God...
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    If We Go On Sinning

    I agree. We need to fear God and live our lives aligned with His word. Our deeds do not justify us, but if we don't have deeds, it shows we have not understood what salvation is all about. Daily, we are to walk with the goal of having no sin. But if we were to stumble, God would raise us back...
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    God does not select people for damnation

    Let's look more carefully at the scripture. For if, after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in them and overcome, the latter end is worse for them than the beginning. For it would have been better...
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    God does not select people for damnation

    That, again, is your opinion, not the Word of God. You do not follow the whole of the Word, just a subset. For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted the heavenly gift, and have become partakers of the Holy Spirit, and have tasted the good word of God and the...
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    God does not select people for damnation

    You have to be careful not to follow a doctrine that draws people away from the genuine saving grace of the LORD, by making God the author or cause of people's damnation. Rather than a genuine free will rebellion by man. I know of people who have wept in grief over the doctrine of Calvinism...
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    God does not select people for damnation

    The Jews were "chosen" to be the vessel through which salvation would come (via Christ). They were not chosen for "individual salvation". Even Paul made that fact clear: Rom 9:27-29 Isaiah also cries out concerning Israel: "THOUGH THE NUMBER OF THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL BE AS THE SAND OF THE SEA...
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    I feel like I'm damned

    The fact is the unpardonable sin Jesus was talking about was a state of the heart - that no longer wanted God, nor would try. The Pharisees rejected all of God's mighty miracles, aimed at bringing them back to God; that state of total utter rejection of God was unpardonable. For Christians, God...
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    A life of struggle, but now in a good place

    I am going to share the story of my life in the hope that you will see that through difficulties God can bring us out to a good place. As a Child I grew up in the state of Tasmania, I remember fondly the younger years, playing as a Child on the beaches of Crayfish Creek where I grew up, before...
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    Once Saved Always Saved (OSAS) or Keep the faith until the end?

    I am sure a lot of people who believe in OSAS are trying to live rightly. However, I have seen people turn to the doctrine because they could not live free of sin. This could be a misunderstanding of how "sinless" we should be, not understanding that grace covers our stumbling. Sometimes it...
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    Once Saved Always Saved (OSAS) or Keep the faith until the end?

    You are 100% correct. For those who disagree with you here are some scriptures. 1Co 9:27 But I discipline my body and bring it into subjection, lest, when I have preached to others, I myself should become disqualified. Paul knew he could become disqualified from his race if he did not live...
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    Trouble, Judgment, and forgiveness

    After I was saved, I became disgruntled with life, and returned to a sin I had before I was a Christian. This resulted in around 10 years of wandering through a wilderness of curses. I believed in my heart that my sin was unpardonable, and lived in daily terror of hell. It was only after some...
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    What is true saving grace?

    I have read their view on Hebrews, and I have to say that the whole site is the biggest buchery of the word of God I have ever seen. Excusing sin in the believer, making punishment for the believer only in this world. In my opinion, the site will create weak, sinful believers with no fear of God.
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    What is true saving grace?

    That is lazy doctrine. I have presented the scriptures, yet you deny them. At least explain them to me.
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