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Recent content by Rubicon

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    An Independent Baptist View of Soteriology

    In other terms, are you espousing that faith precedes regeneration?
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    What impact did the FALL of Adam have ?

    Jesus goes on to say why they don't turn and repent: Matthew 13:15 For this people’s heart is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes they have closed; lest at any time they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and should understand with their heart...
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    What impact did the FALL of Adam have ?

    The time is coming, and now is here. The dead hearing is not restricted to the end of times. The time now is here as well that the dead hear.
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    What impact did the FALL of Adam have ?

    In that passage, Jesus goes on to say: Matthew 13:13 Therefore speak I to them in parables: because they seeing see not; and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand. 14 And in them is fulfilled the prophecy of Esaias, which saith, By hearing ye shall hear, and shall not...
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    Exegesis and Biblical Theology of John 6:37

    What are your views on compatibilism?
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    What impact did the FALL of Adam have ?

    Yes. John 5:24 Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life. 25 Verily, verily, I say unto you, The hour is coming, and now is, when the dead shall...
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    Exegesis and Biblical Theology of John 6:37

    Jesus does go on to say that it is those who have learned from the Father that come unto Him: How were they taught by God? They had been taught by God through the law that they are in need of salvation from sin and death. They are drawn by God to Jesus who is our bread of life, who leads...
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    Exegesis and Biblical Theology of John 6:37

    I agree - Psalms 78 echos this:Psalms 78:21 Therefore the LORD heard this, and was wroth: so a fire was kindled against Jacob, and anger also came up against Israel; 22 Because they believed not in God, and trusted not in his salvation: 23 Though he had commanded the clouds from above, and...