Well we can have a discussion about this to if you want
Well we can have a discussion about this to if you want
Well we can have a discussion about this to if you want![]()
I never needed to look back to realize what happened. At the time, it was one of the most
profound things I had ever experienced in my life, and I even wrote poems about it in the
late eighties after "it" happened. I just wasn't a believer then and did not lay down my
opposition to God for another fifteen years... while attending an Alpha Course. At least
a couple of those poems are in my poetry thread, which was where I introduced myself .![]()
well it's important to know that the scripture you quoted is about a person believing on a vision given or choice given.What is there to say?
Alot of raw emotion in your poetry. Very vivid use of language.In my siggy, very bottom .![]()
well it's important to know that the scripture you quoted is about a person believing on a vision given or choice given.
How is it the person is able to choose, does s he not have to be enabled,
On the flip side of he doesn't obey what is it that enabling him to not obey his choice or his heart.
See my belief is God's looks at the heart,
.
It has to be heart thing surely and not a conscious decision to obey.
Like say you could say I will obey a thousand times but then not obey the very next minute
Well my heart says differently,When the Bible speaks of a man's heart?
It refers to your mind. Specifically, the part of your mind that holds your personal values and conclusions.
As a man thinks in his heart so is he.... Proverbs 23:7
And, another way to reveal in the Bible what function the heart has...
Satan's fall took place in his heart...
Isaiah 14:13-14You said in your heart,“I will ascend to the heavens;I will raise my throneabove the stars of God;I will sit enthroned on the mount of assembly,on the utmost heights of Mount Zaphon.I will ascend above the tops of the clouds;I will make myself like the Most High.”The heart is where we do our thinking! Not emoting and feeling.
The Bible mentions other parts of the body for our feeling.
Always good to know these truths.
For the truth will make us free.
grace and peace !
Yes from now on ill take yourI'm slanderous? Your words just made me look like a gentleman.
I am not in exile. My Home is in Heaven, not Israel.
You better check your tires. You are getting too close to that rock wall you keep racing towards....
Well my heart says differently,
And my heart obeys and when something is tied there in belief it's very unlikely to be untied.
But for others I would imagine they haven't quite learned how to tie
There heart yet..
Now a common expression would be dont break my heart.
Or another would be unbreak my heart.
But as for you, yes you can place things on my heart but only if I allow it to take a hold will it have any chance of either breaking it or strengthening it.
However with the case of.God I only ever always allow it
I have come across an idea lately within this forum, that some believe that there are 2 classes of Christian. They believe that there is a class called 'the elect', who have no choice but to be saved because God has decided they will be saved no matter what and the 2nd class being those who are not elect but are still able to be saved through choosing Christ.
This is different from Calvinism as Calvinism believes God decides, or has decided, who will be saved and who will never be saved.
It is also not Arminianism because choice is given, according to this belief, to everyone.
While people will continue to debate reformed vs non-reformed, this 2 tier believer system is not available as a 3rd option that I have found nor anyone else or anywhere for that matter. I have searched different teachers/teachings, various articles and so on and the conclusions of people more knowledgeable than anyone in this forum, is that it does not exist.
Just interested in what others might have to say. I have no idea whether or not the person(s) presenting this idea will defend what they believe or not.
For clairity's sake, I am neither reformed or non-reformed. I tend to think that no one can come up with exactly what the Bible has in mind when it states 'from the foundation of the world'. I do not agree with the approach of Calvinism to settle it and I do not appreciate the Arminiam viewpoint either because of problems it presents.
Not to start another debate about reformed/vs non, we have a library of those already, but to take a look at the elect who have no choice in being saved and the rest of humanity who can choose whether or not to accept Christ.
That's about it.
Well my heart says differently,
And my heart obeys and when something is tied there in belief it's very unlikely to be untied.
But for others I would imagine they haven't quite learned how to tie
There heart yet..
Now a common expression would be dont break my heart.
Or another would be unbreak my heart.
But as for you, yes you can place things on my heart but only if I allow it to take a hold will it have any chance of either breaking it or strengthening it.
However with the case of.God I only ever always allow it

what are you on about,well we can restrict that to the prophecy thread
this was or should have been, a small self-contained discussion and not the power grab some tried
I don't think your post considers the op and the op was not about pre-determination at all