Not By Works
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WORKS ARE DEEDS YOU THINK CAN GAIN YOU SALVATION, OR TO MAINTAIN IT, PERIOD.
Decisions are NOT WORKS! Here is the PROOF.
Romans 5:8-11 (HCSB)
8 But God proves His own love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us!
9 Much more then, since we have now been declared righteous by His blood, we will be saved through Him from wrath.
10 For if, while we were enemies, we were reconciled to God through the death of His Son, ⌊then how⌋ much more, having been reconciled, will we be saved by His life!
11 And not only that, but we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ. We have now received this reconciliation through Him.
Philippians 2:13 (HCSB)
13 For it is God who is working in you, ⌊enabling you⌋ both to desire and to work out His good purpose.
Romans 11:6 (NASB)
6 But if it is by grace, it is no longer on the basis of works, otherwise grace is no longer grace.
1 Corinthians 2:12-16 (NIV)
12 We have not received the spirit of the world but the Spirit who is from God, that we may understand what God has freely given us.
13 This is 8what we speak, not in words taught us by human wisdom but in words taught by the Spirit, expressing spiritual truths in spiritual words.
14 The man without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned. 🖜 When you come to HIM, grieving over your Utter Sinfulness, And
>>>>>>>>>> Willingly surrender to HIM, wanting HIM to Run your Life, out of Pure AGAPE LOVE, then you are Born Again. <<<<<<<<<<<
15 The spiritual man makes judgments about all things, but he himself is not subject to any man's judgment:
16 "For who has known the mind of the Lord that he may instruct him?" But we have the mind of Christ.
YOU HAVE TO BE BORN AGAIN, TO EVEN BEGIN TO UNDERSTAND WHAT WE ARE TALKING ABOUT.
Obedience has never been part of SALVATION, IT HAS ALWAYS BEEN PART OF THE AGAPE LOVE THE HOLY SPIRIT POURED INTO OUR HEARTS, Rom.5:5.
Spiritual Decisions do not happen in the mind between the EARS.
Spiritual Decisions happen in the Heart or the Born Again Human Spirit as we Walk with Christ, NOT IN THE HUMAN BRAIN.
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I wonder how a person who is completely lost pretend they are not?
I mean since they are completely lost how would they know any different?
I mean since they are completely lost how would they know any different?
You are responding to one of the very few people on my ignore list. I had to click that button to see....
You shouldn't pay much mind to people who blatantly HATE the truth and attack those who trust in Christ opposed to self.
It's like trying to reason with an angry wasp.... better just to let it be (or let it bee😁)
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Thanks, keep me posted on any other factual changes you and your flock are making on the fly.
Strong's: "pisteuo means NOT just to believe."
Vines : " pisteuo is a personal surrender to Him and a life inspired by such surrender."
I'll inform Strong's and Vines their wrong! But if they ask who you guys are and what your qualifications are as linguists and in Greek scholarship, I can't answer that. What are your qualifications to suggest the Strong's and Vines are incorrect?
Strong's: "pisteuo means NOT just to believe."
Vines : " pisteuo is a personal surrender to Him and a life inspired by such surrender."
I'll inform Strong's and Vines their wrong! But if they ask who you guys are and what your qualifications are as linguists and in Greek scholarship, I can't answer that. What are your qualifications to suggest the Strong's and Vines are incorrect?
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4100. pisteuó ►
Strong's Concordance
Part of Speech: Verb
Transliteration: pisteuó
Phonetic Spelling: (pist-yoo'-o)
Definition: to believe, entrust
Usage: I believe, have faith in, trust in; pass: I am entrusted with.
4100 pisteúō (from 4102 /pístis, "faith," derived from 3982 /peíthō, "persuade, be persuaded") – believe (affirm, have confidence); used of persuading oneself (= human believing) and with the sacred significance of being persuaded by the Lord (= faith-believing). Only the context indicates whether 4100 /pisteúō ("believe") is self-serving (without sacred meaning), or the believing that leads to/proceeds from God's inbirthing of faith.
4102. pistis ►
pisteuó: to believe, entrust
Original Word: πιστεύωPart of Speech: Verb
Transliteration: pisteuó
Phonetic Spelling: (pist-yoo'-o)
Definition: to believe, entrust
Usage: I believe, have faith in, trust in; pass: I am entrusted with.
4100 pisteúō (from 4102 /pístis, "faith," derived from 3982 /peíthō, "persuade, be persuaded") – believe (affirm, have confidence); used of persuading oneself (= human believing) and with the sacred significance of being persuaded by the Lord (= faith-believing). Only the context indicates whether 4100 /pisteúō ("believe") is self-serving (without sacred meaning), or the believing that leads to/proceeds from God's inbirthing of faith.
4102. pistis ►
Strong's Concordance
Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine
Transliteration: pistis
Phonetic Spelling: (pis'-tis)
Definition: faith, faithfulness
Usage: faith, belief, trust, confidence; fidelity, faithfulness.
4102 pístis (from 3982/peithô, "persuade, be persuaded") – properly, persuasion (be persuaded, come to trust); faith.
Faith (4102/pistis) is always a gift from God, and never something that can be produced by people. In short, 4102/pistis ("faith") for the believer is "God's divine persuasion" – and therefore distinct from human belief (confidence), yet involving it. The Lord continuously births faith in the yielded believer so they can know what He prefers, i.e. the persuasion of His will (1 Jn 5:4).
You're not even close.
pistis: faith, faithfulness
Original Word: πίστις, εως, ἡPart of Speech: Noun, Feminine
Transliteration: pistis
Phonetic Spelling: (pis'-tis)
Definition: faith, faithfulness
Usage: faith, belief, trust, confidence; fidelity, faithfulness.
4102 pístis (from 3982/peithô, "persuade, be persuaded") – properly, persuasion (be persuaded, come to trust); faith.
Faith (4102/pistis) is always a gift from God, and never something that can be produced by people. In short, 4102/pistis ("faith") for the believer is "God's divine persuasion" – and therefore distinct from human belief (confidence), yet involving it. The Lord continuously births faith in the yielded believer so they can know what He prefers, i.e. the persuasion of His will (1 Jn 5:4).
You're not even close.
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