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I’m Not talking about salvation. As you should know, I don’t believe they were “saved” eternally upon death like you and I. The best they could earn is escaping eternal condemnation and being kept safe in Abraham’s bosom. If they were saved, they would have been present with the Lord upon death.
One could attain righteousness under the law by keeping the ordinances. However, this was self righteousness through obedience and not God’s righteousness through Jesus Christ.
One could attain righteousness under the law by keeping the ordinances. However, this was self righteousness through obedience and not God’s righteousness through Jesus Christ.
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The law could never take away sin. One could attain righteousness under the law, but it was self righteousness before God through believing God and obeying His word. Christ ended the law for righteousness sake. God’s righteousness is found through Jesus Christ.
The righteousness under the law by keeping the ordinances, provided safety from God’s wrath upon death until God’s righteousness showed up in the man Christ Jesus.
The righteousness under the law by keeping the ordinances, provided safety from God’s wrath upon death until God’s righteousness showed up in the man Christ Jesus.
You are right about there being no sin that will keep those that he died for from going to heaven. The thing that you are mistaken on is that Jesus did not die for the entire world, because all that he did die for he will raise them up at the last day and there are too many scriptures that say that all will not go to heaven.
How do you interpret John 6:39? God saw by his foreknowledge (Psalms 53:2-3) that none would seek (believe) him, no, not one. That is why in Eph 1 he choose an elect people and had his Son to be a sacrifice for their sins to clean them up and stand them before him as holy and without blame. Jesus's sacrifice was to God for God's acceptance, not a sacrifice to man for man's acceptance, The natural man cannot discern the things of the Spirit (1 Cor 2:14) until he has been given the Holy Spirit in the new birth (Eph 2:5).
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38 For I have come down from heaven, not to do My own will, but the will of Him who sent Me. 39 This is the will of the Father who sent Me, that of all He has given Me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up at the last day. 40 And this is the will of Him who sent Me, that everyone who sees the Son and believes in Him may have everlasting life; and I will raise him up at the last day.”
Left on their own, No one would seek christ as Ps 53 says, But the world is not left on its own. Thats why God send all the things. (Including the HS). He. Has sent, including the church, to help draw people to christ.
38 For I have come down from heaven, not to do My own will, but the will of Him who sent Me. 39 This is the will of the Father who sent Me, that of all He has given Me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up at the last day. 40 And this is the will of Him who sent Me, that everyone who sees the Son and believes in Him may have everlasting life; and I will raise him up at the last day.”
Left on their own, No one would seek christ as Ps 53 says, But the world is not left on its own. Thats why God send all the things. (Including the HS). He. Has sent, including the church, to help draw people to christ.
Do you think anyone understood that Jesus was a sacrifice during Christ’s earthly ministry? They tried to defend him... even the deciples like (doubting) Thomas needed proof of his death, to touch the holes on his hands so he may believe .Peter denied know him 3 times...
You correctly interprete scripture, but notice how you confirm it with the epistles of Paul....God knew the mystery all along, as did Christ, but no one else understood. You said yourself, Ephesians 1, brings the understanding, this was Paul, revealing the mystery. You hear of prophetic words, and hints though scripture before Paul reveals it...But it was not understood fully until Paul revealed it....this is the rightly dividing of scripture. Paul’s message (his) gospel brings salvation to the world, it is also the gospel used to confirm the prophetic scripture in the gospels of Mathew, Luke, Mark and John, even the OT.....we are now left with neither Jew nor gentile, 1 gospel
You correctly interprete scripture, but notice how you confirm it with the epistles of Paul....God knew the mystery all along, as did Christ, but no one else understood. You said yourself, Ephesians 1, brings the understanding, this was Paul, revealing the mystery. You hear of prophetic words, and hints though scripture before Paul reveals it...But it was not understood fully until Paul revealed it....this is the rightly dividing of scripture. Paul’s message (his) gospel brings salvation to the world, it is also the gospel used to confirm the prophetic scripture in the gospels of Mathew, Luke, Mark and John, even the OT.....we are now left with neither Jew nor gentile, 1 gospel
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I agree with you that the gospel confirms how our eternal salvation was accomplished and it was by Christs death, burial and resurrection, not by believing the gospel. Believing is by revelation of the indwelling of the Holy Spirit which was given in regeneration.(Eph 2:5) The carnal man cannot discern the things of the Spirit (1 Cor 2:14). The apostles and prophets of old did not understand fully until Jesus ascended and sent the Holy Ghost.
And who is it that sees the Son and believes in him? Not the natural man as described in 1 Cor 2:14 who cannot discern the things of the Spirit. Only those who have ears to hear. I know my sheep, they hear my voice and I call them by name. Those who are not born again are not his sheep. He said, "if they have not the Spirit, they are none of his". The same believers in John 3:16. Only the regenerated hear and believe the things of the Spirit.
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