Elect according to the foreknowledge of God. 1 Peter 1:2
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You changed the entire meaning of the phrase by adding the words “TO BE”. No one stated Ephesians 1:4 this way.
Also, the use of the words “select people” is misleading. The correct words are He chose us, not we are select people.
That’s where the confusion is coming from. You are adding words to what is said.
Also, the use of the words “select people” is misleading. The correct words are He chose us, not we are select people.
That’s where the confusion is coming from. You are adding words to what is said.
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1 John 3:0 notice that it says BORN of God before it mentions the seed (scripture) abiding in him
1 Peter 1:23 been BORNagain, (you cannot ignore v3 and just move on to one that suits your belief.)
I have told you that being born again means to be quickened by the Holy Spirit...(the dead made alive, spirital death needs to be quickened or regenerated {same thing] to spiritual life.
You have the cart before the horse.....having spiritual eyes to see before one is born again. Do the dead see? LOL not any I know of.
I think you might have a misunderstanding of just what it means to be spiritually dead.
The parable of the Sower and the Seed is good example.....how the seed falls on unprepared soil* or falls on the prepared soil.
It is being born again to a spirital life that is the preparation for the seed.
****the seed it sown to the unprepared and it is blown away, grows no root, snatched away by temptation, or cares more for worldly things.........but the seed sown on the good soil (quickened) understands it
1 Peter 1:23 been BORNagain, (you cannot ignore v3 and just move on to one that suits your belief.)
I have told you that being born again means to be quickened by the Holy Spirit...(the dead made alive, spirital death needs to be quickened or regenerated {same thing] to spiritual life.
You have the cart before the horse.....having spiritual eyes to see before one is born again. Do the dead see? LOL not any I know of.
I think you might have a misunderstanding of just what it means to be spiritually dead.
The parable of the Sower and the Seed is good example.....how the seed falls on unprepared soil* or falls on the prepared soil.
It is being born again to a spirital life that is the preparation for the seed.
****the seed it sown to the unprepared and it is blown away, grows no root, snatched away by temptation, or cares more for worldly things.........but the seed sown on the good soil (quickened) understands it
Jesus refers to the sick needing a physician . If we were literally like a corpse then we would see evangelists at the cemetery. Naaman is a better example . God saved him after he washed himself in the Jordan . He doesn't save himself . Neither do we . But just like Naaman we have to appropriate salvation through faith . His act was to go wash in the river . Ours is to believe on Jesus . God is pleased to save those that believe . 1cor 1.21 . Not cause belief in those he saves .