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Recent content by josh623

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    God is love... what about babies?

    Romans 4 clearly states that faith is not a work. But it is an action that we must do, just like Abraham - believe. I am not consigning the deaf to hell... But they must comprehend. That's what I mean by hear. What's ironic is that saying that you must be baptized to be saved is work...
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    God is love... what about babies?

    Oh yeah that part is obvious, but the accountability is not. We are born with a corrupt nature and God cannot tolerate sin, His justice must be met.
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    God is love... what about babies?

    Of course Rational comprehension is required... See Luke 11:52 " Woe to you lawyers! For you have taken away the key of knowledge. You did not enter in yourselves, and you hindered those who were entering". See also Rom 8:24-25 "For we were saved by hope, but hope that is seen is not hope...
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    Salvation is just by faith in the Lord Jesus Christ - read the witness

    Thanks for posting this... It is a blessing to know that we are only saved by faith! The thing that people argue is where does that faith originate from, man or God?
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    God is love... what about babies?

    Ok, this is where my questions are going... Primarily for bling and freegrace: if what you say is true, then why would God ever allow those (children who he knows will ultimately reject him and end up in hell) to grow up past the "age of accountability" and end up in hell? According to your view...
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    God is love... what about babies?

    I have a question... If God forces someone to be saved and go to heaven apart from their choice, does this make him evil? Why couldn't God have created every person who has ever lived to go to heaven and restrained them from ever falling into sin?
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    God is love... what about babies?

    If you are referring to 1 Pet 3:21 saying that baptism saves us you have mis-translated it. Probably due to the translation in part. Remember, scripture must be taken in context and in light of other scripture. If Jn 3:18 says that the dividing line is belief/unbelief, Rom 3:20,28, Acts 13:39...
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    God is love... what about babies?

    It still doesn't say anything about someone not being accountable before they understand.
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    God is love... what about babies?

    Is 7:14-15 doesn't say anything about someone going to heaven before an age of accountability, all it says is "before he shall know to refuse the evil and choose the good " I get they comparison you are trying to make but believe you take it too far. Faith is a conviction or assurance...
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    Question for my Calvinist friends.

    The God of the old testament is the God of the new testament, He doesn't change. There is only one God. Jesus is God. We see Jesus in a loving capacity in His earthly ministry, yes, but we also see him in the book of Revelation in his wrath. There is no force that compels God, he is self...
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    God is love... what about babies?

    You just contradicted yourself... (see bold above). What is faith? "Now faith is the certainty of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen." (Heb 11:1). You affirm that children are born sinners and need to be saved from what I read in your post... Well faith in Christ is the only...
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    God is love... what about babies?

    So you don't believe everyone needs saving? You think that some are good and some bad and God only needs to save the bad ones? Or are you backing election? Just trying to understand your answer here :) Never? He NEVER over-rules their choice to be saved? I'm sorry but this part doesn't...
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    God is love... what about babies?

    I guess I'm more referencing something like what happened to Paul on the road to Damascus. I am basically wanting to know if you think God takes an active role even today in wooing people to himself, and if he always does as much as is within His power until the person He is trying to gain...
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    God is love... what about babies?

    Not really sure how to multi-quote like you did... but anyway =) The above questions are a result in multiple conversations that some of my good friends (brothers in Christ) and I have had in the past about God's sovereignty. I basically see the way they (being armenian) believe (although we...
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    Question for my Calvinist friends.

    Read Ez. 20 and 36 and tell me what and who God is consumed with... " 22 I do not do this for your sake, O house of Israel, but for the sake of My holy name, which you have profaned among the nations, there where you went. 23 And I will sanctify My great name, which has been profaned among...
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