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You Must have had a misguided schoolmaster.I posted this in another thread but it fits here also. Man was created in a state of grace
The tree of knowledge of good and evil is the law, for by the law is the knowledge of sin. The day A & E broke Gods commandment not to eat was the day they were placed under the law which is a ministration of death and it is this death by law that that they died the day they ate thereof. Thus by one man death came into the world.
However even in death God gave a way for man to return to that state of grace they were created in because the law is also our schoolmaster that leads to Christ. Thus death is not the end for man but a schoolmaster that leads us back to grace in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Yes, but you must first be called to be a part of the ALL.
Ephesians 4:1-3 I, therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you to walk worthy of the calling with which you were called, (2) with all lowliness and gentleness, with longsuffering, bearing with one another in love, (3) endeavoring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.
Matthew 20:16 So the last shall be first, and the first last: for many be called, but few chosen.
Many are called by the preaching of the Gospel into the outward communion of the Church of Christ; but few, comparatively, are chosen to dwell with God in glory, because they do not come to the master of the feast for a marriage garment - for that holiness without which none can see the Lord. This is an allusion to the Roman custom of raising their militia; all were mustered, but only those were chosen to serve, who were found proper. Reader! examine thy soul, and make sure work for eternity! [CLARKE]
2 Timothy 2:4 No man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life; that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier.
John 15:5 (NIV) “I am the vine; you are the branches. If you remain in me and I in you, you will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing.
Matthew 5:19 Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven: but whosoever shall do and teach them, the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.
Mathew 20:16 So the last shall be first, and the first last: for many be called, but few chosen.
"For many are called, but few are chosen." Matthew 22:14 KJV
??? said:Mattthew 1:21 “And she will bring forth a Son, and you shall call His name JESUS, for He will save His people from their sins.”
Notice the words "He will" and "His people". Clearly not all are part of the body of Christ, not all are His people.
Matthew 22:14 “For many are called, but few are chosen.”
The verse above and others like...
Matthew 7:13 “Enter by the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and there are many who go in by it."
...suggests a select few in contrast to the whole of mankind.
Again if I had more time, many other verses could be used to support this. As an observation, look at Israel in contrast to the rest of the world, it is so small, but out of all the nations in the world, God chose tiny Israel, and through Israel the awesome power of the one true God on display, other larger nations were brought to their knees so to speak, not because of the superiority of Israel, but because of the God of Israel and His sovereign providence.
You Must have had a misguided schoolmaster.
Proverbs 14:32 The wicked is driven away in his wickedness: but the righteous hath hope in his death.
Psalms 6:5 For in death there is no remembrance of thee: in the grave who shall give thee thanks?
Psalms 30:9 in the grave who shall give thee thanks? for mercies temporal or spiritual; the dead cannot praise the Lord among men, only the living; [GILL]
Ecclesiastes 9:10 Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither thou goest.
Isaiah 38:18 For the grave cannot praise thee, death can not celebrate thee: they that go down into the pit cannot hope for thy truth.
Psalms 115:17 The dead praise not the LORD, neither any that go down into silence.
Your sight is very limited. Did you not read to whom "Every Knee" is directed?Rev.5:13 And every creature which is in heaven, and on the earth, and under the earth, and such as are on the sea, and all that are in them, heard I saying, Blessing,
and honour, and glory, and power, be unto him that sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb for the eons of the eons.Isa.45:21b and there is no God else beside me; a just God and a Saviour; there is none beside me. 22 Look unto me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth: for I am God, and there is none else. 23 I have sworn by myself, the word is gone out of my mouth inrighteousness, and shall not return, That unto me every knee shall bow, every tongue shall swear. "...Is. 45:22-25...The Lord...swears solemnly by his own life that 'every knee will bow before me; by me every tongue will swear'...the words of v.23, which are reiterated in Phil. 2:10-11, express the notion of the universal and final homage to Yahweh. ...By invoking Is.45:23 as its proof-text the author of the hymn and the...community in which the hymn originated live 'in confident expectation that this salvation will soon be universally visible'.55"
As someone said: "annihilating someone DOES NOT RESPECT THEIR FREE WILL!"
Matthew 22:14 For many [πολλός] are called, but few [ὀλίγος] are chosen.Few chosen. For what? A final destiny of salvation from which the rest (the many others) are forever excluded? No, Paul says "many" (Rom.5:18-19) shall be saved, not "few". And by "the many" he means all fallen human beings:
Revelation 5:10 And hast made us unto our God kings and priests: and we shall reign on the earth.
John 5:29 from the Young's Literal Translation:
"...and they shall come forth; those who did the good things to a rising again of life, and those who practised the evil things to a rising again of judgment."
You Must have had a misguided schoolmaster.
Proverbs 14:32 The wicked is driven away in his wickedness: but the righteous hath hope in his death.
Psalms 6:5 For in death there is no remembrance of thee: in the grave who shall give thee thanks?
Psalms 30:9 in the grave who shall give thee thanks? for mercies temporal or spiritual; the dead cannot praise the Lord among men, only the living; [GILL]
Ecclesiastes 9:10 Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither thou goest.
Isaiah 38:18 For the grave cannot praise thee, death can not celebrate thee: they that go down into the pit cannot hope for thy truth.
Psalms 115:17 The dead praise not the LORD, neither any that go down into silence.
Dear Lazarus: I am sure you have seen the ghastly translation of the KJV on this particular passage. It stands nearly alone in the translation of krima.
John 5:29 - and come out—those who have done what is good will rise to live, and those who have done what is evil will rise to be condemned.
Please note
Krima begins at the house of God.
FL, I have noted many times in the KJV that words are translated and given a bit more "English," as it might be said in the world of billiards. Thus, "judgment" is rendered as "condemnation," and "condemnation" is rendered as "damnation." I have become aware that the KJV, for all of its grandeur, is just another denominational translation, in the end, no more useful than the New World of Clear Word translations.
2 Books the one where the dead were judged to blot out their name and the one which is the Book of Life!
Revelation 20:12 And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works.
Revelation 20:15 And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire.
Philippians 4:3 And I intreat thee also, true yokefellow, help those women which laboured with me in the gospel, with Clement also, and with other my fellowlabourers, whose names are in the book of life.
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