The command/law enforces its rules.And what kind of work does the law do?
The command/law enforces its rules.And what kind of work does the law do?
I answered that.
The command/law enforces its rules.
Well, this is a step in the right direction!![]()
Galatians 3:23-25
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It is called works of law.That's what police departments are for. (This why such are called Law Enforcement agencies.) There's no such animal as a law that self-enforces itself. Oy vey!![]()
What is the law of Christ?
Why is it on me if you missed it? I did as you asked already.Yeah...in what lifetime and in what post number?![]()
It is called works of law.
Why is it on me if you missed it? I did as you asked already.
The Bible says For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.
The reformed state that God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son so that whomever God chooses should not perish but have everlasting life.
Strangely enough, the actual and ONLY people God has chosen are the Jews.
Predestination, according to the reformed, means that you basically had no choice and God decided you would be saved in spite of yourself.
Predestination according to scripture, means that once you are a follower of Christ, you are then predestined to have eternal life and follow Christ during your earthly life.
The reformed will tell you that God ordained that your child would be killed by a car because they did not look both ways before crossing a busy road.
The Bible states that sin has entered this world and we all suffer because of it. God did not kill your child; your child had the option to look both ways, God did not force him/her to look straight ahead and be killed.
Your post was 4660Not likely. You always duck the tough questions. What happens to your credibility if I go back to 4660 and review all your posts subsequent to that and don't find such a post? Your credibility winds up in the sewer, doesn't it?
Think on terms of Genesis 6 and that representation of persistent sin.
“And they shall come back here in the fourth generation, for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet complete.”
God destroyed those who were persistent in SIN and were not planning to change.
Think about Sodom.
Thanks, you just reinforced my argument. ALL HUMANITY persists in their sin. Man cannot fix himself. There's no difference in principle between what God did to the NON-ELECT nations by driving them out the Land and what he did in eternity past with all non-elect people throughout the world by consigning them to eternal damnation. Since you, evidently, don't believe God was a murderer in using the Israelites to exterminate pagans from the Land, then neither is a God a murderer for consigning all non-elect to eternal punishment.Think on terms of Genesis 6 and that representation of persistent sin.
“And they shall come back here in the fourth generation, for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet complete.”
God destroyed those who were persistent in SIN and were not planning to change.
Think about Sodom.
God's grace allows us to change our behavior, not our fallen nature.Thanks, you just reinforced my argument. ALL HUMANITY persists in their sin. Man cannot fix himself. There's no difference in principle between what God did to the NON-ELECT nations by driving them out the Land and what he did in eternity past with all non-elect people throughout the world by consigning them to eternal damnation. Since you, evidently, don't believe God was a murderer in using the Israelites to exterminate pagans from the Land, then neither is a God a murderer for consigning all non-elect to eternal punishment.
God gave his elect nation Israel the Land to inhabit-- a type of Restored Eden -- for it was a land flowing with milk and honey.
P.S. Mankind CANNOT change its nature, anymore than God can change his. You have this fantasy in your head that there is some "good" in mankind that enables him to fix himself.
God is "good" to sinners and saints alike. The former by common grace, and the latter by saving grace. This does not mean that God loves sinners as his children. Moreover, you conveniently overlook the fact that God "hated" Esau in eternity BEFORE he did anything good or bad. This means in eternity Esau was predestined to be condemned as a reprobate, whereas Jacob was predestined unto election -- also in eternity BEFORE he did anything good or bad.
Where does it say God hates esau before he did anything?Because God hated Esau before he did anything does not necessitate that his doing had no influence on God's regard for him. It simply demonstrates God's foreknowledge of Esau. "For those He foreknew...
I was commenting in reference to the argument that God hated Esau in his mother's womb before he did anything but I'm quirky about reposting baloney, so I didn't quote the referenced comment. My apologies. That position assumes that Romans 9 applies to salvation rather than service, even though the explanation, "The older will serve the younger," is offered within the context.Where does it say God hates esau before he did anything?
Just asking
That would be an assumption thoughI was commenting in reference to the argument that God hated Esau in his mother's womb before he did anything but I'm quirky about reposting baloney, so I didn't quote the referenced comment. My apologies. That position assumes that Romans 9 applies to salvation rather than service, even though the explanation, "The older will serve the younger," is offered within the context.
10Not only that, but Rebecca’s children were conceived by one man, our father Isaac. 11Yet before the twins were born or had done anything good or bad, in order that God’s plan of election might stand, 12not by works but by Him who calls, she was told, “The older will serve the younger.”d 13So it is written: “Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.”e