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“Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever believes has eternal life.” John 6:47 (ESV)I was sure you understood we need scripture to prove any claims,,,especially after what just happened.
“Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever believes has eternal life.” John 6:47 (ESV)
What scripture?So one scripture falls apart an we just skip to another without a word?
That one's easy, and anyone that doesn't see if we stop believing we don't have eternal life, doesn't want to see it.
Correct, an apostate is someone who turns away from Jesus Christ of Nazareth permanently. Correct salvation is a one time gift. There are those who quench the Holy Spirit and repent from their sins. They remain in the Kingdom.What you describe is apostasy and there is no return. So someone cannot one day be saved, then unsaved, saved again, unsaved again, back to saved again as your theology teaches.
And Scriptures do not teach what you propose. Other than describing the difference between an adopted child of God and apostate:
Hebrews 6: NASB
7For ground that drinks the rain which often falls on it and brings forth vegetation useful to those for whose sake it is also tilled, receives a blessing from God; 8but if it yields thorns and thistles, it is worthless and close to being cursed, and it ends up being burned.
If it's important, put it up with your comments.
If it's important, put it up with your comments.
What post #?Already did, and I'm not going to play any games here, when I was already clear.
Good Day, d taylor
I can certainly attest to for my self that was not the basis of my conversion.... But never the less.
What John is describing is the effects of believing. We do know that even the believing is a gift granted by the hand of the Father:
Phil 1:29 For it has been granted to you that for the sake of Christ you should not only believe in him but also suffer for his sake, engaged in the same conflict that you saw I had and now hear that I still have.
You seem to suggest here that the act of believing is the cause of the Born again (effect)?
Is that your view?
In Him,
Bill
The Bible refers as we know to be born again as to when a believer comes to saving faith in the living God. We also know that some believers lose their faith to later in life come to faith again. Does this mean such a person has been born again twice?
One scenario might be that the believer never was born again the first time. But then how do we know the second time is a true rebirth?
It may also be so that the first time was a real rebirth, but the Holy Spirit was quenched, and the person left Christianity practically, but still had faith somewhere down inside (possibly denied), and coming back to faith "again" was simply relighting the spark, the Holy Spirit that was there inside.
The third option is that the person was reborn, then lost his faith which got the Holy Spirit to leave, to later in life be born again a second time and once again receiving the Holy Spirit.
Can a person be born again more than one time? Please back up with scriptures (and, or with Church fathers).
Christ love,
P
Didn’t say people live a Christian life never happens. But are we sure those we observe living a Christian life are truly born again.Like most Christians.
I get the feeling you are saying that never happens.
I believe quoting verse 26 undercuts your argument. Notice whose righteousness God is referring to in that verse.
Of course he wasn't troubled. My point is, there are Jewish writings that are extrabiblical that you the phrase "born again" outside of the spiritual usage in John 3. Perhaps that is why Nicodemus was confused for a moment because, perhaps, he was attempting to apply the more secular meaning of "beginning anew" to a spiritual aspect he hadn't applied it to before. The phrase, like I said, was not unique to the NT, it was a cultural phrase being applied in a spiritual manner.
Remember, Yeshua spent a great deal of time revealing the spirit of the law which was derived from the letter of the law. Don't kill and not hating were tied together as was no committing adultery and lusting in the heart (and many other examples I can share). Nicodemus was probably stuck in his mind, using the more secular letter of "born again" and was confused when it was being used for this spiritual purpose by Yeshua.
It's part of not being able to habitually live in sin.
John say "if" we sin we have an advocate, not "when we sin".The word habitually is never used there. That is a human addition by doctrinaire's who try and convince people that sin isn't that big a deal under the New Covenant. The way they do this is to take the case and mood of that word sin in the Greek and say that it represents continuous action.
The problem with that is that John makes it clear earlier that any sin, any darkness, takes us away from the fellowship of God. We are not in relationship with him when we sin. Then he further goes on to say that if we want to restore our relationship, we simply repent, confess and pray for forgiveness and he is "faithful to forgive us." Repentance isn't used, but it is clear that we must cease from sin, because sinning is walking in darkness. And if we walk in darkness we're not in the light anymore. There is no darkness in God.
John say "if" we sin we have an advocate, not "when we sin".
It applies to not habitually sinning.Forgive my ignorance but I don't see how this relates to what I wrote.
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