What are your thoughts on this subject.
Is following Christ Jesus Christ a choice?
Did Matthew when Jesus stated ‘follow me’ make the choice to do so? Maybe this one was predestined?
Either way, can people make the choice to follow God or completely reject him in this life? Or is it a preordained thing and only some people get to the choice to?
It's both a gift-and a very human choice-and series of choices throughout our lives, with whatever time we're given.What are your thoughts on this subject.
Is following Christ Jesus Christ a choice?
Did Matthew when Jesus stated ‘follow me’ make the choice to do so? Maybe this one was predestined?
Either way, can people make the choice to follow God or completely reject him in this life? Or is it a preordained thing and only some people get to the choice to?
I don’t want to sound condescending here. But lol. I’m not sure I have the choice. So... Every page of the Bible is filled with a dozen exhortations, commands, admonition for us to choose to do right and reject doing evil. Not just that but page after page after page listing examples of the consequences for doing right or wrong.What are your thoughts on this subject.
Is following Christ Jesus Christ a choice?
Did Matthew when Jesus stated ‘follow me’ make the choice to do so? Maybe this one was predestined?
Either way, can people make the choice to follow God or completely reject him in this life? Or is it a preordained thing and only some people get to the choice to?
That’s really not correct. At least in the sense your trying to convey it. When the Bible verses you are referring to talk about predestination. It’s referring to the second covenant as being what has always been predestined from the very start. The reason your conflating salvation with this is because the apostle is showing the saved whom he is speaking to that their salvation is the result of the predestination of the second covenant.Whenever the Bible mentions predestination, it is always predestination to be saved. The Bible nowhere teaches that God has preordained or predestined anyone to be lost.
Joshua 24:15
And if it is evil in your eyes to serve the Lord, choose this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your fathers served in the region beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you dwell. But as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.”
Predestination in regard to salvation makes love nonexistent ... and this is simply not so.
God is love.
1 John 4:8
Berean Study Bible
Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love.
We have the choice to love or not to love ... plain and simple.
Elect in the sense of the Predestination of the second covenant as opposed to the first. That the world has always been predestined to find salvation through the second covenant.Well I'll be damned, Daniel. Lol.
Fhsansen nice scripture use there. If is a choice word.
eleos1954 nice scripture use there. Choose.
dunricky I can't explain to tired. Though in most of the narratives (come to think of it) it explains who the the elect are for an example : To God’s elect, exiles scattered throughout the provinces of Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia and Bithynia <- 1 Peter.
Not if you're one of His sheep ( John 10:27 ).
They just do it...
Because they are His sheep.
I see these when I read the Bible:Whenever the Bible mentions predestination, it is always predestination to be saved.
Romans 9:22.The Bible nowhere teaches that God has preordained or predestined anyone to be lost.
I'm just grateful that He bothered with me.From all the responses, you all seem like pretty interesting people. Bet you all have an interesting story of hardships that you have been through and overcome... sometimes it probably took a little longer but it is good each of you found God somewhere in the span of time we have been living is it not?
What are your thoughts on this subject.
Is following Christ Jesus Christ a choice?
Did Matthew when Jesus stated ‘follow me’ make the choice to do so? Maybe this one was predestined?
Either way, can people make the choice to follow God or completely reject him in this life? Or is it a preordained thing and only some people get to the choice to?
What are your thoughts on this subject.
Is following Christ Jesus Christ a choice?
Did Matthew when Jesus stated ‘follow me’ make the choice to do so? Maybe this one was predestined?
Either way, can people make the choice to follow God or completely reject him in this life?
Or is it a preordained thing and only some people get to the choice to?
What are your thoughts on this subject.
Is following Christ Jesus Christ a choice?
Did Matthew when Jesus stated ‘follow me’ make the choice to do so? Maybe this one was predestined?
Either way, can people make the choice to follow God or completely reject him in this life? Or is it a preordained thing and only some people get to the choice to?
People love to debate doctrines involving predestination. It is an ancient argument. In cases like these, I first look at Scripture to interpret Scripture and then I look to my own experience for any personal insight in my faith journey.What are your thoughts on this subject.
Is following Christ Jesus Christ a choice?
Did Matthew when Jesus stated ‘follow me’ make the choice to do so? Maybe this one was predestined?
Either way, can people make the choice to follow God or completely reject him in this life? Or is it a preordained thing and only some people get to the choice to?
Matthew made the choice to follow. The Rich Young Ruler who was also called did not.Did Matthew when Jesus stated ‘follow me’ make the choice to do so? Maybe this one was predestined?
From the receiver's point of view, Acts 2:38-39 makes the discussion of predestination a moot point - as genuine repentance and baptism is all Peter called for to be saved. Note that the Holy Spirit did not lead Peter, Philip, or Paul to introduce predestination in any Gospel presentation in the book of Acts.Either way, can people make the choice to follow God or completely reject him in this life? Or is it a preordained thing and only some people get to the choice to?
What are your thoughts on this subject.
Is following Christ Jesus Christ a choice?
Did Matthew when Jesus stated ‘follow me’ make the choice to do so? Maybe this one was predestined?
Either way, can people make the choice to follow God or completely reject him in this life? Or is it a preordained thing and only some people get to the choice to?