NOT EVERYONE WHO BELIEVES WILL BE SAVED
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As far as whether everyone who believes will be saved goes if we are to take the title of the thread at face value I would say no not everyone is. A true born again believer will flourish in love and all the fruits of the spririt they are a garden that cannot be contained always growing more and more to the brink of spilling over but there are those who are religous and this is not the same thing. Yes they believe in God and that Jesus died and rose again they know the bible they go to church they pray but they have no love in them they are like stone cold and hard on others they preach more on sin than anything else and they do not bring people closer to God rather they pull others away from him by putting them down pointing out every flaw and sin without seeing their own.
There is a vast difference between a Christian by title and a Christian by heart
There is a vast difference between a Christian by title and a Christian by heart
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Not quite. When we became saved, it was only in our soul existence, our earthly body did not benefit one iota.
John 6:63 (KJV 1900)
It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.
Only our dead soul was resurrected back to life upon salvation. We are still stuck in this body of sin and death. This is evident because true believers still die physically. This happens because death is the payment for sin. It isn't until the last day that our corrupted bodies will become incorruptible and immortal.
Romans 7:24–25 (KJV 1900)
O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death? 25 I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin.
Until then, we have the same struggle that Paul speaks about. Or inner man desires to do good but our sin tainted corrupted flesh still wants to do evil. This is why we must discipline our bodies and bring it under subjection to the will of God, because naturally, it desires sin, even for a child of God.
Romans 7:14–15 (KJV 1900)
For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin. 15 For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I.
John 6:63 (KJV 1900)
It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.
Only our dead soul was resurrected back to life upon salvation. We are still stuck in this body of sin and death. This is evident because true believers still die physically. This happens because death is the payment for sin. It isn't until the last day that our corrupted bodies will become incorruptible and immortal.
Romans 7:24–25 (KJV 1900)
O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death? 25 I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin.
Until then, we have the same struggle that Paul speaks about. Or inner man desires to do good but our sin tainted corrupted flesh still wants to do evil. This is why we must discipline our bodies and bring it under subjection to the will of God, because naturally, it desires sin, even for a child of God.
Romans 7:14–15 (KJV 1900)
For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin. 15 For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I.
“Love your neighbor as yourself” sets the bar for loving others as much as people love themselves - meaning everyone starts their loving-their-neighbor-as-themselves career at different stages. Our judgments about how much someone appears to love others isn’t a valid standard for gauging who is a true Christian or not; just leave that up to God to decide.
Not at all, this is my thread and I have a responsibility to respond to make sure it stays on track. You are welcome to begin your own at anytime. But as long as you respond, I will assume that this topic is of interest to you and will reply accordingly with the scriptures. Thanks for understanding.
Scripture is true. But it seems to me you are misreading God, and that is serious. There are those who say Lord, Lord and all they are doing in the Lord's name and God doesn't even know them. To believe in Christ is to accept His word.
There are unrighteous people who go to Christ for forgiveness without repentance but hold tight to their unrighteousness, saying they believe Christ can save them. Yet scripture says
There are unrighteous people who go to Christ for forgiveness without repentance but hold tight to their unrighteousness, saying they believe Christ can save them. Yet scripture says
- 1 Corinthians 6:9-11 Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived! The sexually immoral, idolaters, adulterers, passive homosexual partners, practicing homosexuals, thieves, the greedy, drunkards, the verbally abusive, and swindlers will not inherit the kingdom of God.
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Even so there are plenty of false Christians out there that is a reality I even knew a man who is in prison now because he killed a gay person saying he was an abomination to God and to be honest some of the most judgemental and cruel people I have ever met were so called Christians. The wheat and the tare look the same but the seeds of wheat is edible while the tares seeds are poisonous
Not once we compare scripture with scripture and learn that in one's unsaved condition that no one calls upon God.
Isaiah 64:7 (KJV 1900)
And there is none that calleth upon thy name, That stirreth up himself to take hold of thee: For thou hast hid thy face from us, And hast consumed us, because of our iniquities.
So, now the Bible forces us to dig deeper for clarity and harmony. This teaches us that taking any single verse at face value is a mistake. That's like looking at a single puzzle piece and trying to figure out what the whole picture is.
Isaiah 64:7 (KJV 1900)
And there is none that calleth upon thy name, That stirreth up himself to take hold of thee: For thou hast hid thy face from us, And hast consumed us, because of our iniquities.
So, now the Bible forces us to dig deeper for clarity and harmony. This teaches us that taking any single verse at face value is a mistake. That's like looking at a single puzzle piece and trying to figure out what the whole picture is.
Correct. As a matter of fact, there is no way to determine who a true believer is. God describes it this way.
John 3:8 (KJV 1900)
The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so (in like manner) is every one that is born of the Spirit.
Salvation is between God and the individual whom he has saved. This is how God gives us our assurance.
Psalm 35:3 (KJV 1900)
Draw out also the spear, and stop the way against them that persecute me: Say unto my soul, I am thy salvation.
This is why we always had to hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the Lord.
Lamentations 3:26 (KJV 1900)
It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the Lord.
And in God's own time, he saved those he has chosen to save.
John 3:8 (KJV 1900)
The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so (in like manner) is every one that is born of the Spirit.
Salvation is between God and the individual whom he has saved. This is how God gives us our assurance.
Psalm 35:3 (KJV 1900)
Draw out also the spear, and stop the way against them that persecute me: Say unto my soul, I am thy salvation.
This is why we always had to hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the Lord.
Lamentations 3:26 (KJV 1900)
It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the Lord.
And in God's own time, he saved those he has chosen to save.
Claiming something is about a different context is the easy way out. But if you look at it again, the context is about mankind's sinful condition who does not call upon the name of the Lord nor stir himself up to take hold of God. Therefore, since this is the condition of mankind before salvation, then something has to happen to cause mankind to call upon the name of the Lord. What is it?