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Well since I don't believe we are created when we are born ,but existed before ,yes it is possible .I don't believe that but I would be interested to know if there is anyone here who believes that.
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Well since I don't believe we are created when we are born ,but existed before ,yes it is possible .I don't believe that but I would be interested to know if there is anyone here who believes that.
Well I must be very foreign ,but then the gospel is ' foriegn ' to those who do not truly understand it !!I know, and I dont profess that I believe what you stated as well.....I just find the words of those who dont blatantly dismiss the unknown, respectable. These are the only kinds of people able to be reasoned with. Some are here to praise those with the same beliefs and degrade those who speak anything foreign..
He is not talking about physical blindness but Spiritual blindness which was a choice made by the soul before .John 9:41 Jesus said unto them, If ye were blind, ye should have no sin: but now ye say, We see; therefore your sin remaineth.
It is not the age. It is the mentality level which the word age is equivalent too as handicapped people are like babies in that they do not recognize their sinfulness and are not accountable as we are
John 15:22 If I had not come and spoken unto them, they had not had sin: but now they have no cloke for their sin.
We only get our 'spiritual bodies ' when we are perfected ,and after Jesus returns and completes His work .I find it totally agreeable that one who believes anyone will literally burn in an oven and takes most of the bible as literal....would also believe that children will be there as well.....
Yes it is "unfair" for one who has not heard the word to have to face hellfire, but is it "Fair" for one who had never faced the temptation that many in "hell" had succumbed to, and still go to "Heaven?
Neither can be reconciled in the mind of man....
We also have to take into account that this whole notion is of the flesh.....we are assuming that little crawling babies will be in fire crawling around....and we are using this imagery to form opinions.
Yet there is no reason to believe that eternal bodies will look just like the physical....or that our new body have to take the same age and form as the current...in fact, many who have died after the age of 80, would be very disappointed if we had to keep the same age and appearance that we left the earth with....
We are a very peculiar people......Sometimes viewed as the ignorant and unlearned, to those educated in the doctrines created from the word.....Well I must be very foreign ,but then the gospel is ' foriegn ' to those who do not truly understand it !!
I agree, and Jesus comes when we are like Him......then we will see Him as He is, and know, even as we are known...... Woe to them who waits till the future for the promised meant for today......the day of salvation....We only get our 'spiritual bodies ' whne we are perfected ,and after Jesus returns and completes His work .
Christians ,well most are confused, as they are like children in primary school who think they know everything, because they have learned the BASICS .yet you believe God will punish the older ones because they gave into the temptation that the younger one did not have to face.
You seem to have more compassion for those younger in age. What if God loved everyone equally and without the prejudices known to infect man?
Some are much more wicked than others at Birth .*psalms 58:3
we're all wicked, the wicked are estranged from the womb, david admitted as much.
All sinned IN ADAM.Matthew 18:3
Why speak of "becoming as" if they are doomed to hell?
That's like saying.
If you dont want a speeding ticket... be as a speeder.
If a child is innocent enough to be used in the example of those that we are to become in order to see Heaven... how much more innocent a baby?
As to the question to people believe such things? I'm sure, there us no limit to what some in humanity will choose to embrace as "truth".
I don't believe that but I would be interested to know if there is anyone here who believes that.
The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge and wisdom (Proverbs 1:7)(Proverbs 9:10). If one cannot take those first steps, they cannot cannot cast out fear (1 John 4:18), and be perfected in love by obeying God. For 1 John 2:5 says,
"But whoso keepeth his word, in him verily is the love of God perfected: hereby know we that we are in him." (1 John 2:5).
The fact that God cares for me enough to make my choices matter in this life is the foundation or basis of my faith. It was the fear of the Lord that made me to depart from evil.
"...by the fear of the LORD men depart from evil." (Proverbs 16:6).
To depart from evil gives understanding.
"Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom; and to depart from evil is understanding." (Job 28:28).
Jesus says if you love me, keep my commandments (John 14:15).
So after we fear the Lord (fire insurance as you call it), we learn to then love God by realizing that obeying His commandments is the equivalent of loving Him. We start to cast out fear of the Lord by perfecting our love in obedience to His Word (See again: 1 John 4:18, and 1 John 2:15).
Love is more than just a feeling.
Love is a devotion. A loyalty. A faithfulness.
But in order to learn how to love, we must need to fear God first because that is the beginning of knowledge and wisdom. If one does not start off fearing God, then we do not care about sin, or God's judgments and or what He says and we are fools who are seeking to make ourselves into being our own gods with us dictating the terms of how things should be to God.
It's not a false accusation when stated in 2 Peter 3:16 that God says those who distort Paul's letters will also distort other Scriptures.Thank you for the false accusation and insult. I will rejoice in God my Savior.
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Oh, and by the way, where do you think the KJV is in support of babies having the capacity? You did not exactly give a verse in the KJV or anything (showing that babies have the capacity).
Like I said you only serve as a type of fire insurance.
Lip service is what they call that in the bible
It's not a false accusation when stated in 2 Peter 3:16 that God says those who distort Paul's letters will also distort other Scriptures.
Millennialism is one such example of distorting other Scriptures to fit a false teaching. Scripture very clearly teaches that false teaching has the effect like that of gangrene (2 Timothy 2:17).
Sorry you feel insulted by the truth of God's Word when the effects of gangrene is being spoken and subsequently is refuted.
No, as the death of Jesus atoned for their sins, and God applies that Grace towards them!I don't believe that but I would be interested to know if there is anyone here who believes that.
The belief in a premil kingdom to come about at second coming was held by many Early Church fathers, so this is not heresy, as it is acceptable with orthodoxy, as is Post and Amil also!It is against forum rules to attack me, the poster. You may disagree with my belief and you can even call it false, untrue, or unbiblical, but to move it into the realm of saying that I am actively distorting God's Word is an attack upon me personally. It is inflammatory and or goading.
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The belief in a premil kingdom to come about at second coming was held by many Early Church fathers, so this is not heresy, as it is acceptable with orthodoxy, as is Post and Amil also!
Uh huh, okay. Then what is this verse doing in our Bible?
"And others save with fear, pulling them out of the fire; hating even the garment spotted by the flesh." (Jude 1:23).
Do you care to explain it using Scripture?
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Oh, and if you were to notice in my previous post to you, I essentially said that love is something that comes later for those who perfect their walk with God by obeying Him. Again, see 1 John 2:5. In other words, I am not saying a person remains in having a fear of the Lord their whole life because they learn to walk uprightly when they mature in the faith (Thereby having a proper love of God by their obedience to Him).