Oh, I just felt it was a little ironic, that's all.
Why is that when I was being sincere?
Ok, great. I prayed that God would protect me from deception about the Gospel a long time ago.
I wish to share something with you dear friend that I was shared earlier in this thread as I think it is applicable here and wish to ask you what you think it might mean?
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THE FLOODED RIVER
A man was stuck on the roof of his car in raging flooded river... He prayed to God to rescue him.
First, a man with a life saving ring swam out with a rope to offer to save him.
The man refused stating "No thanks, God will save me".
Second, a man in a boat risked the torrents to go out to the man to save him.
The man refused stating "No thanks God will save me"
Third, a helicopter came and lowered a rope.
The man again refused stating "No thanks, God will save me"
He drowned..
At the pearly gates he asked the Apostle Peter why God didn't save him.. Peter said... "What are you talking about? He sent a man with a rope, a boat and even a helicopter.... and you refused them all."
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Now dear Jord, if you prayed and asked God to protect you from deception about the Gospel, how do you know that God is trying to do this now but your refusing His help? According to the scriptures even knowing the truth of God's Word is conditional on continuing in God's Word *JOHN 8:31-32, seeking JESUS for it moment by moment through his Word alone *JEREMIAH 29:13, not through the teachings of men or from sources outside of God's Word. If we turn to men we will not find the truth of God's Word *JEREMIAH 17:5 as the truth is only found in God's Word *JOHN 5:39; JOHN 8:31-32 as we seek it and ask God to be our guide and teacher *JOHN 14:26; JOHN 16:13; 1 JOHN 2:27; HEBREWS 8:10-12. Please prayerfully consider dear friend these scriptures. Don't find yourself in the place of the man in the flooded river of false teachings with God sending your his help through the scriptures and you rejecting his help.
LoveGodsWord wrote: I did not provide an interpretation I only provided scripture that provides it's own interpretation word for word. According to the scriptures there is no second chances for the unrepentant wicked after the second coming of JESUS. The unrepentant wicked receive the second death and are destroyed in the lake of fire *
Revelation 21:8;
2 Thessalonians 1:9;
Hebrews 10:26-27, (
more scriptures there is too many linked). To believe otherwise when the God's Word says that the unrepentant wicked are destroyed after the second coming is gambling with ones salvation indeed.
Your response here..
Maybe not in that post, but I read enough of the thread to know that you believe in annihilation (which I can't reconcile with the reconciliation of all things to God).
It is only to JESUS we must turn in order to know the truth of God's Word. Sometimes we may need to be as little Children to unlearn things that may not be biblical if we have been taught them from men and not received God's truth from God by seeking him alone for an understanding of his truth through his Word. To know God's truth is conditional according to the scriptures. Maybe God is calling you back to his Word.
LoveGodsWord wrote: Wheather you are gambling with your salvation or not I do not know and neither do I judge you. God knows if you are truely following him or not. Your salvation is between you and God not me and you. All I posted was that the teachings of Universalism in regards to the unrepentant wicked receiving eternal life after the second coming is a false doctrine of second chances that is not biblical and has its origins in
Genesis 3:1-5 when the devil said to Eve in the garden of Eden you shall not surely die. Sound familiar?
Your response...
It only sounds familiar because you posted it earlier I think.
I posted GENESIS 3:1-5 of the devils claims to Eve in the garden of Eden that if you break God's commandments the wages of sin is death. The Devil tried to convince Eve that they would not surely die. When I asked if it sounds familiar it was to show the similarities between the teachings of "Universalism" and the first lie told by the devil in the garden of Eden that caused the fall of all mankind. Check out the scriptures and the teachings of Universalism that the unrepentant wicked will receive eternal life. Sound familiar?
LoveGodsWord said:
↑ Soo this addresses the scriptures in the post you are responding to how???
Your response here...
If that is your response to God's unthwartable plan I think I might leave this convo, with all due respect.
I went on to respond after I posted the above that I think what your not considering dear frend is that God does not force people into believing and following him. We are not robots. God has given us the power to choose (freewill) to follow him as we believe and follow his Words. As posted earlier there is too many scriptures showing that Jesus has made provision for the whole world to be saved. These scriptures do not teach that all mankind will
choose to be saved. The reason is given that men love darkness rather then light because their deeds are evil and neither do they come to the light of Gods' Word lest their deeds be exposed *
John 3:19. As posted earlier through the scriptures God's salvation to mankind is conditional on us believing and following what God says (
too many scriptures already provided here linked).
My prayer is that you may consider these scripture and have your old prayer answered. They are God's Words not mine.
LoveGodsWord said:
↑ Yes I believe all ISRAEL will be saved. God's ISRAEL according to the new covenant is simply all those who believe and follow Gods' Word. Gentiles are now grafted in. There is no more JEW and Greek only believers and followers of God's Word and all are one in Christ.
Your response here...
Oh so not all Jews will be saved according to you?
As posted earlier God's ISRAEL in the new covenant is simply all those who believe and follow Gods' Word. There is no more JEWS or Greeks only believers and followers of God's Word as all are one in Christ.
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For he is not a Jew who is one outwardly; neither is that circumcision which is outward in the flesh: but he is a Jew who is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit not in the letter; whose praise is not of men, but of God." - Romans 2:28-29
May you receive God's Word and be blessed dear friend.