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I agree WITH YOU that "believing" is a work
(all decisions or choices are mental works)
So... out of one side of your mouth you say "believing is a work"
And out of the other side of your mouth you say you are not
preaching a "works gospel" or a "boaster's gospel"
That is just hilarious.
Jim
Just read the TEXT.
First we have those who "it is given" to understand:
Mar 4:11 And he said unto them, Unto you it is given to know the mystery
of the kingdom of God: but unto them that are without, all these things
are done in parables:
Just read the TEXT.
Then we have those who it is NOT GIVEN to understand:
Mar 4:12 That seeing they may see, and not perceive; and hearing they may hear, and not understand; lest at any time they should be converted, and their sins should be forgiven them.
Now dare to believe Jesus when He teaches that some men
were NEVER MEANT to be saved... they were NEVER MEANT
to have their sins forgiven.
Can you believe Jesus?
Can you do that?
Jim
BTW... Jesus also explains the Christian church consists
of those who "are given understanding" (saved "wheat/sheep")
sown by God. And those who were NEVER MEANT to understand
the True Gospel and NEVER MEANT to be saved... because they are
unsaved tares sown by Satan and (as children of Satan) destined
to the same FIRE prepared for Satan [Mat 25:41]
Why do you WANT to not believe what Jesus said?
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We already did this.
Faith is a noun
Believing is a verb (meaning having faith)
You cannot "have faith" unless you (wait for it.....) first "believe"
Now... that was not hard, was it?
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No what’s so hard is to actually get you to provide the definition of these words. That’s what’s so hard. I asked for the definition not what type of grammar they are. You really don’t want to show those definitions do you? You always do conveniently skip over my questions that you don’t want to answer because you know the answer will destroy your theology which is really concerning. You need to really search within yourself and ask yourself what’s more important teaching the truth about God’s word or saving face and pride by refusing to admit that you made a mistake? Since you keep declining to answer my question I can only come to the conclusion that you’ve seen the points I’m making and are simply refusing to admit it.
I already answered your question:
We already did this. Faith is a noun.
Believing is a verb (meaning having faith)
You cannot "have faith" unless you (wait for it.....) first "believe"
Now... that was not hard, was it?
You are pretending to yourself again.
(1) I have answered MANY of your questions
(2) those answers destroy YOUR "works gospel"
Tell me... WHAT question do you think I have NOT answered?
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Ok so what your saying is when Jesus says if anyone has ears to hear that means if anyone has been permitted to understand?
Just never mind I see what the problem is here. It’s pointless to continue this conversation.
So you agree then that even people who have been drawn by The Father and have been regenerated can be severed from Christ and fall from grace thus they lost their salvation?
OK, I dare you to back up your opinion with the Bible.
Book, chapter and verse. Thanks.
You need to learn how to format your posts. All the above were from my post, but it shows up as your own quote.
At least, look at your posts AFTER you post it. So you can fix the errors.
As I said, your questions are LOADED phony questions. Just like my question to you about whether or not you have stopped beating your poor wife.
This is a LOADED phony question. Such questions cannot be answered.
Jesus taught the church ("Christians") consist of BOTH
saved "wheat/sheep" sown by God and destined to eternal life
and unsaved "tares/goats" sown by Satan and destined to the
same fire as Satan.
Please answer the simple question.
Is it your position that a person who is in Christ, has no need of obeying His commandments to remain in Him?
JLB
Apparently you are quite unaware of the fact that you haven't even addressed the issue here. Of course all unbelievers are spiritually dead. That wasn't and isn't the issue. But thanks for all the Scripture anyway.I said:
because (wait for it.....) they are spiritually dead.
WOW... what a (Biblical) concept
(FreeGrace2 said: ↑
OK, I dare you to back up your opinion with the Bible.
Book, chapter and verse. Thanks.)
Gen 2:17 But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.
Eph_2:1
And you hath he quickened, who were dead
in trespasses and sins;
Eph_2:5
Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us
together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved
Col_2:13
And you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, hath he quickened together with him, having forgiven you all trespasses;
Rom 5:12 Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:
Psa 51:5 Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me.
Rom 8:7 Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.
Rom 8:8 So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God.
1Co 2:14 But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
Joh 11:25 Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life:
he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live:
2Co 4:3 But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost:
2Co 4:4 In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.
Rom 5:19 For as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous.
Romans 3:10-12 “There is none righteous, not even one; There is none who understands, there is none who seeks for God; All have turned aside, together they have become useless; there is none who does good, There is not even one.”
Mark 7:21-23 “For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed the evil thoughts, fornications, thefts, murders, adulteries, 22 deeds of coveting and wickedness, as well as deceit, sensuality, envy, slander, pride and foolishness. 23 All these evil things proceed from within and defile the man.”
Genesis 6:5 “The LORD saw how great the wickedness of the human race had become on the earth, and that every inclination of the thoughts of the human heart was only evil all the time.”
lol. When are you going to quote verses that support your guess that regeneration precedes belief?Is that enough... or do you want more?
Jim
This is what I already posted:If anyone does not abide in Me, he is cast out as a branch and is withered; and they gather them and throw them into the fire, and they are burned. John 15:6
Is it your position that a person who is in Christ, has no need of obeying His commandments to remain in Him?
Are you are asking me if someone who has had his sins PAID...
can suddenly OWE that payment again?
Are you asking me f someone who has ETERNAL LIFE...
can suddenly LOSE what is eternal... that eternal does NOT
mean eternal at all?
Are you asking me if Jesus way LYING when He said
He would lose NONE of His sheep?
Jim
Galatians 5:3-4
That is absolutely false.
Jesus never taught the Church consists of both saved and unsaved.
Please post the scripture where Jesus taught that the Church consists of both saved and unsaved people.
JLB
That is absolutely false.
Jesus never taught the Church consists of both saved and unsaved.
Please post the scripture where Jesus taught that the Church consists of both saved and unsaved people.
JLB
I am assuming you understand the term "Kingdom of Heaven"
[Mat 13:24] and the term "Kingdom" [Mat 13:41] represent
the Churches... as we preach the Christian Gospel (the seed)
to the saved "wheat" and unsaved "tares" in the NT churches.
(1) The "Kingdom of Heaven" is an earthly Kingdom
(2) The sower of good seed represents the Lord Jesus Christ
(3) The sower of bad seed represents Satan, the King of Babylon
(4) The "Word of the Kingdom" (the seed) is the Gospel of
the New Testament
(5) The "field" represents the world, as the Gospel goes forth
to both Jew and Gentile
(6) The "fruit" of the field (both wheat and tares) represents
the PEOPLE living in the Christian "Kingdom of Heaven"
(7) The (saved) "wheat" and the (unsaved) "tares" LOOK similar,
and grow together (in the churches) until the end-of-the-age
(8) At the end-of-the-age, the "wheat and tares" are separated
during the "Final Harvest"
I am assuming you understand the PEOPLE shown as wheat
are the SAVED PEOPLE in the churches and the PEOPLE shown
as tares are the UNSAVED PEOPLE in the Christian "Kingdom"...
If you do NOT understand this very BASIC information is about
the PEOPLE living during Christian "Kingdom of Heaven"
(the churches) Then you were NEVER MEANT to
see and perceive - or hear and understand:
Mar 4:11 And he said unto them, Unto you it is given to know
the mystery of the Kingdom of God: but unto them that are
without, [not MEANT to be SAVED] all these things are done in parables: 12 That seeing they may see, and not perceive;
and hearing they may hear, and not understand; lest at any
time they should be converted, and their sins should be
forgiven them.
(see also Matt 13:11-17... some men were NEVER MEANT
to understand the Gospel, or be converted, or be forgiven...
if you do not understand that some men IN THE CHURCHES
were NEVER MEANT to be saved, then you do not understand
the most basic elements of the Gospel of the New Testament)
Mat 13:24
Another parable put he forth unto them, saying,
The Kingdom of Heaven [the Christian church] is likened unto
a man which sowed good seed in his field: 25 But while men slept,
his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat, and went
his way. 26 But when the blade was sprung up, and brought forth fruit, [the wheat] then appeared the tares also. 27 So the
servants of the householder came and said unto him, Sir, didst not
thou sow good seed in thy field? from whence then hath it tares?
28 He said unto them, An enemy hath done this. The servants said unto him, Wilt thou then that we go and gather them up? 29 But he said, Nay; lest while ye gather up the tares, ye root up also the wheat with them. 30 Let both grow together until the harvest: and in the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, Gather ye together first the tares, and bind them in bundles to burn them: but gather the wheat into my barn.
Mat 13:36 Then Jesus sent the multitude away, and went into the house: and his disciples came unto him, saying, Declare unto us the parable of the tares of the field. 37 He answered and said unto them, He that soweth the good seed is the Son of man; 38
The field is the world; the good seed are the children of the kingdom; but the tares are the children of the wicked one; 39 The enemy that sowed them is the devil; the harvest is the end of the world; and the reapers are the angels. 40 As therefore the tares are gathered and burned in the fire; so shall it be in the end of this world. 41 The Son of man shall send forth his angels, and they shall gather out of his kingdom [the Christian Kingdom] all things that offend, and them which do iniquity; [all the unsaved tares] 42 And shall cast them into a furnace of fire: there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth.:43 Then shall the righteous shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Father. Who hath ears to hear, let him hear.
One of the BASIC and ESSENTIAL doctrines of the Christian Gospel
is that the churches (the Christian "Kingdom of Heaven") consist
of BOTH saved "wheat" sown by God and destined to eternal life
and unsaved "tares" sown by Satan and destined to the SAME FIRE that is prepared for Satan and his demons [Mat 25:41]
Remember... the unsaved "tares" LOOK LIKE THE SAVED WHEAT...
they LOOK like real Christians... and they grow together with the
saved "wheat" because they LOOK LIKE the "wheat".... this means
anybody who thinks the unsaved "tares" are NON-CHRISTIANS
(Jews, Moslems, Buddhists, Hindus, Atheists, Agnostics, etc, etc)
does not have eyes to see or ears to hear, since those people
OUTSIDE the Christian "Kingdom" DO NOT LOOK like Christians.
This is all so basic and essential to the Christian Gospel that
it is really Christian theology 101
The "Final Harvest" is to SEPARATE the "wheat and tares"
within the Christian Kingdom... not to separate Christians
from those in the world who DO NOT LOOK like Christians.
If YOU thought the unsaved "tares" are PEOPLE outside the church,
people who do not even LOOK LIKE the saved "wheat" then you
were never meant to understand the "mysteries of the Kingdom".
Or you are a Christian needing a TON of correction on the most
basic and essential elements of the Christian Gospel.
Jim
Then what does it mean to be “severed from Christ”, and “fallen from grace”?
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