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SIN is a Garden?
Yes, the story of Adam and Eve in the Garden. The original sin, that separated humanity from God, thereby requiring the saviour to come to make reconciliation.
How does a man continue in faith?
By staying loyal to Jesus Christ, when following his instructions.
Through the Son Jesus, to Christ, who is My Lord My God.
Excellent!
I do not believe A GARDEN is SIN.
The falling out from the relationship between humanity and God is the original sin of the first human family, that cast a shadow on the entire clan of Adam, all the way onto the thief hanging on the cross, beside Jesus.
Are you saying A SAVED man, can depart from Christ?
Sure, depending on what you define as being saved. Many versus in scripture highlight warnings from Jesus to his disciples and they were all conditional, like IF you keep what I say, then you will LIVE and so on.
Judas was chosen by Jesus and was trusted to be treasurer of valuable things owned by Jesus and the disciples.
Was Judas a treasurer and a betrayer at the same time?
Obviously if you answered yes, then you question the Lord's Judgement to entrust him as treasurer. So judas must have been trust worthy, please highlight the words trust worthy, but ended in betraying Jesus. Can this happen to saved Christians?
Off course, otherwise free will would not exist, because after being technically saved then that individual is a prisoner of the transaction that negates their free will to get out off, regardless of penalty clauses. We know in the real world this doesn't happen, so why would God negate the individual's free will after being saved?
Take for example the many parables of the servant who was unbecoming of a servant, when the Lord caught him out on a day and hour he knew not. That servant aparrently had a portion with the saved and Jesus overturned that by now giving him the portion with unbelievers
What about the five foolish virgins who were brides of Christ, thereby saved, yet forgot to trim their lights for the wedding at midnight, they got locked out and were told to go away. Since they were bid to come to the wedding in the first place, did not Jesus overturn their status from saved to being rejected and cast out?
Off course you would say yes, right?
What about the man who came to the wedding without wedding garments and was kicked out of the wedding?
Did not the man appear to be saved when he was already in the wedding, believing he was saved, yet something changed that prevented him from attaining his wedding garments, much like the five virgins who could not attain the oil at the critical time leading up to midnight.
Were not all these saved before their fate was overturned and they were given a portion with the unbelievers?
You cannot say that they were unsaved to begin with, otherwise Christ's parables would have no impact or meaning to the unsaved in the first place, unless they were once saved to begin with. So Jesus was addressing the once saved.
Are you saying a SAVED man, can depart from Christ?
Off course, hasn't scripture above explained that to you already.
Yep, but not the subject.
How is that so?
What is this "Spiritual Womb" thing you are talking about?
Spiritual womb is God's way in saying that you received the Spirit of life at your baptism in Christ and now are undergoing a birthing process within the spiritual womb of this temporal life, until you are finally delivered into Christ's waiting arms, after you die as a Testator and are finally judged for the works of faith done in the body. That would be your midnight call, and you would have needed to trim your lamp, otherwise as scripture states....
Look, I come like a thief! Blessed is the one who stays awake and remains clothed, so as not to go naked and be shamefully exposed."
Your midnight calling can happen at any time, when your body of sin, is finally biologically destroyed and as it is written all men are destined to die once then Judgement.
Who are you WITH, while you are WAITING to be with Jesus?
I am in the spiritual womb of the Holy Spirit, until my body of sin is finally put to rest and I am given a new Heavenly body on the day of resurrection, within the new heavens and the new earth and to finally be with my Lord forever.
Dear friends, now we are children of God, and what we will be has not yet been made known. But we know that when Christ appears, we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is. (1 John 3:2)
Even the saved disciple John admits that the hope of the not yet realised will come in the final reunion, the wedding supper, when he is finally delivered into Christ's waiting arms and sees Jesus in his glorified resurrected form, because he too would have biologically died and been raised to be like him and see him as he is. Do you understand friend.
What is this nonsense?
How so?
Birthed accomplished....but still in some spiritual womb.....where are the scriptures that speak of such things....??
Scripture through the parables he spoke explain that birthing is a transition from the moment of conception by the Holy Spirit, within the womb of the Holy Spirit, until the new born child of God is finally delivered into Christ's waiting arms, within the new heavens and the new earth. This is how birthing happens in real life, so why would the model for our spiritual birthing as a spiritual fetus, leading to our resurrection on the day of judgement be any different?
Unless of course you think like the Preterists that we are immediately cloned as the heavenly beings. Birthing is therefore a process that finally is accomplished in the delivery of the new born on the last day that Jesus said he will raise us up. Everything in this temporal life is a model to be used as a shadow of the permanent dwelling in the eternal life to come, when we are finally presented in our Father's arms as his new born children, within the delivery room of his Father's house in the third heaven.
In this temporal life, we are going through life long sanctification as we are growing in the spiritual womb until we are finally delivered in our permanent dwelling place in the third heaven.
When you sow, you do not plant the body that will be, but just a seed, perhaps of wheat or of something else. (1 Corinthians 15:37)
Apostle Paul clearly highlights that what is being sown in a saved when the Holy Spirit conceives the new fetus at baptism is only a seed of what is to come or to be delivered, that is the something else. The something else only manifests in the permanent eternal realm and not this temporal realm. The fetus in this temporal realm can still be miscarriaged or aborted if the fetus does not remain in Christ or Christ just like he did to the man at the wedding and all those who were saved saying Lord Lord Lord, were aborted by him and their portions given with the unbelievers.
Surely you understand all this don't you?
Please quote the scripture that says, your spirit is birthed, but is in a spiritual womb.
Haven't I explained it to you friend. I need an entire term to cover scripture from page to page until you are convinced that we are in a spiritual womb.
Miscarriage, aborted, spiritual womb....
What Bible do you get this stuff from?
The one you are reading and not understanding. The many parables of Jesus Christ seem to be beyond your comprehension.
I am a son of God. No clue, nor care what a Preterist is.
You are a fetus in the womb and growing, so long you remain in Christ and are sustained by his living waters.
You can like Judas decide to get out by kicking your way out and resulting in a miscarriage or you happen to be come out as a still born, which is another model of abortion that can happen to a saved, at the time of delivery, much like the person at the wedding without a wedding garment.
Being saved depends on how it ends for the individual and is not necessarily dependent on how it begins in the spiritual womb.
Don't know what you call yourself;
Believe it or not my human name is inconsequential, yet I am happy and delighted to say that I have been given my spiritual name and that is between me and my Father who will hold me in his arms when I get delivered into his waiting arms, within the delivery room in the third heaven.
However I am already born OF God, IN Chirst, and am simply waiting for the Son of Man, with His Power, to come to the clouds with His reward, call me up to Him, and with His Power to manifest my glorified body.
Haven't you worked this out already friend. He is not coming to you, for the Old heavens and the old earth ends and is annihilated by the brilliance of his coming, yet it is you who is going to him, much like a father waiting for his child to be born in a waiting room, the father does not go into the womb, rather he waits for the new born child to exit the womb.
2My Father’s house has many rooms; if that were not so, would I have told you that I am going there to prepare a place for you? 3And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am. 4You know the way to the place where I am going.” (John 14)
How do you accomplish "BEING faithful"
Everyday?
In the same way how a husband is faithful to his wife and vice versa or a child faithful to their parents and so on. It is a relationship of trust, based on love and devotion. It is not an intellectual exercise, neither is it political correctness. Your faithfulness entails your very relationship with Jesus Christ and he knows exactly how you relate to him, not through your thoughts or feelings, but through your heart that yearns for him, in ways that your life depended on him microsecond by microsecond. He knows you, do you know you?
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Thanks.
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