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Do your best to explain Romans 5

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Yea, I agree with this. Just with a slight adjustment. Jesus is our Savior & Lord!
 
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The problem crops i people want to pick different meanings for the word "all"/"Pas" within the same passage to try and make the passage justify their beliefs.You can't do that if you want truth. If you want truth, pick the same meaning for every single place where the same word is used in the passage. All, without clarification from within the passage itself, always means all. All Gentiles, or All those that believe ... would be limiting. No limits = no limits. Don't create meaning that does not exist to try and force passages to conform to your beliefs. Alter your beliefs to fit the truth actually taught in all the passages that apply.
 
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You have nailed it E.A.! Both sides of the equation are identical, no twisting and turning can be tolerated. Adam 1 neutralized by the Last Adam in a large scope of unprecedented victory!
 
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That is not why I posted what I did. I was under the impression you wanted to discuss atonement in this thread and it is Romans 3 where it is discussed.
 
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As a reply to this I will post a clip by David Bercot. It about one hour. Why don't you listen to it, when you got some spare time.

I make it a personal policy not to comment on long theological videos unless they can be boiled down to a few minutes like this one:

 
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Was every Israel man who got sprinkled by the blood according to the OC saved?
Considering everyone who was in the assembly on the Day of Atonement (participation was mandatory) were sealed in the covenant through circumcision, yes that atoning sacrifice covered them all.

However it did not cover those outside the assembly of Israel meaning uncircumcised Gentiles. Why would it? They were not of the covenant.
 
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Exactly, when he says all are made alive in Christ, he means all who are in Christ. It's a pretty obvious qualifyer.
Why it is important to look at the Scriptures as a whole when difficulties come up like this. I agree.
 
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Very nice. Calvinists are like Muslims.

What some are arguing against is not Calvinism but Covenant theology. It's really difficult to argue against Covenant theology as it's Biblically based.

Notice the majority of folks who are of the Covenant persuasion have only been giving Biblical expository vs. the competing verses pitted against each other reminiscent of eisegesis.
 
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Excellent exposition. I would say the Old Covenant was the type for the new. Only those sealed in the covenant had access to the burnt offerings, sacrifices and atonement.
 
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You gave the two verses and focused on the second part not addressing the first part which addressed God's calling.

Oh. They are both the same. GOD draws us to himself with his spirit. As he speaks we hear and learn to know and follow that voice until such time that he opens our eyes where we can see and believe.
 
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Did Christ atone for the sins of those thrown in the Lake of fire in Revelation 20 and Revelation 21?
 
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Well if you're dead in spirit and conscious as you now admit what's to stop the dead from at least hearing the invitation of God and making a choice?
The dead in spirit are awakened by God. Like the sweet smell of a mother's cooking takes us out of a Saturday morning slumber. Or a firm arm shake by a Dad saying time to get up and mow the lawn sonny boy.
 
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That is not why I posted what I did. I was under the impression you wanted to discuss atonement in this thread and it is Romans 3 where it is discussed.

Sorry if I was a bit off focus. I don't think I understood exactly what you wanted to say by your post. Would you elaborate?

"hilastḗrion" means mercy seat. Christ is our mercy seat, the mediator, where man and God can meet.

 
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Did Christ atone for the sins of those thrown in the Lake of fire

You will find the Lake of Fire has a wonderful ingredient: theion. You will also find the root for theion is none other than Theos. The Lake is the breath of Jehovah, and you can rest assured when He breathes on anything there is dramatic change. I will leave it there for now, but get adjusted to our God who IS Fire!
 
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Considering everyone who was in the assembly on the Day of Atonement (participation was mandatory) were sealed in the covenant through circumcision, yes that atoning sacrifice covered them all.

Yet not all who got sprinkled were saved in the end ...

However it did not cover those outside the assembly of Israel meaning uncircumcised Gentiles. Why would it? They were not of the covenant.

I didn't say that. I said that not all those among the Isralites that were sprinkled were saved. It was for the whole Israel (Jews), just as Christ's atonement is for the whole world (Jews and gentiles).
 
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The dead in spirit are awakened by God. Like the sweet smell of a mother's cooking takes us out of a Saturday morning slumber. Or a firm arm shake by a Dad saying time to get up and mow the lawn sonny boy.
Well you said in a prior post that dead people can't hear things...but their noses work fine and can smell God like you would a mother's cooking on a Saturday morning? You're kind of funny!
 
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Very nice. Calvinists are like Muslims.

I didn't say that. I do hate Calvinism though, just as I hate Islam

Why? Because Calvinism diminish the work of Christ. And not only that, also distort the character of our LOVING God.
 
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Yes. Exodus 15:7
Deuteronomy 4:24
Hebrews 12:29

The Lake of Fire is gehenna in the Aramaic but our New Testament translations render both the Greek word, hades and gehenna as "hell". Jesus used the two words in different contexts so I think we can safely assume that they are two different places. In His discussion of the Rich Man and the other Lazarus, Jesus had the Rich Man in hades while Lazarus was with Abraham in paradise (in the passage, the concept of the "bosom of Abraham" is used but they were roughly synonymous ). The whole of it, in the Jewish understanding, sheol--the place of the dead was divided into two parts with an unbridgeable gulf between--the part for the just (a place of peace and blessing) and the part for the unjust (a place of torment). There was said to be a gate at the bottom of of hades where the eternally damned passed as they were led to the Lake of Fire. In that instance, hades can be seen as a kind of "holding tank"--a place of torment but leading ultimately to continuous annihilation in the Lake of Fire (gehenna) by the consuming fire of the wrath of God. This is the "Second Death" that the Book of Revelation names as such. When Jesus warns His hearers to, "...fear the one who can destroy both body and soul in hell" the word He uses for "hell" is Gehenna. Jesus' hearers would have been familiar with the concepts Jesus expressed in the account because it was mostly the position of their rabbis and was the prevailing view held by the Pharisees (the Sadducees did not believe in an afterlife). Interestingly, those taking the Mark of the Beast are said to be tormented forever along with the Beast, the False Profit and Satan himself. This suggests that they are immortal and cannot die. In fact, the Book of Revelation says that "those belonging to this world" will long to die but that death eludes them.
 
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Good to remember the context of the Sadducees; they correspond remarkably to the skeptics of today.
 
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