Did Jesus Die on The Cross for The Just/Elect/Saved Whose Names Are Written in The Book of Life OR
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It all depends on context and how much knowledge one has learned to think with.
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Philippians 1:9-10
And this is my prayer: that your love may abound more and more in knowledge and depth of insight,
so that you may be able to discern what is best and may be pure and blameless for the day of Christ.
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Just checking, thinking that I'm here to devour people seems to be trending. 
And yes, I did see that and considered it as a use in hyperbole as a literary device to communicate a perception, even if it is an extreme example. Of course, nobody actually believes that you personally consider yourself to have been abducted... do you?
And yes, I did see that and considered it as a use in hyperbole as a literary device to communicate a perception, even if it is an extreme example. Of course, nobody actually believes that you personally consider yourself to have been abducted... do you?
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Just checking, thinking that I'm here to devour people seems to be trending.
And yes, I did see that and considered it as a use in hyperbole as a literary device to communicate a perception, even if it is an extreme example. Of course, nobody actually believes that you personally consider yourself to have been abducted... do you?
And yes, I did see that and considered it as a use in hyperbole as a literary device to communicate a perception, even if it is an extreme example. Of course, nobody actually believes that you personally consider yourself to have been abducted... do you?
I did not know you had a trend going on!!! I have not been here as often as I was not too long ago...
and during the day, for instance earlier today, I was at work, and we have suddenly become quite busy
with the end of the school year presenting us with lots of graduation photos to process. So although
I popped on a couple of times, I could not hang out as I might have at other times due to my work load.
Trusting what one knows doesn't save anyone. Faith has Christ as it's object; not knowledge.
To those who are perishing, the gospel is foolishness anyways. It's not that they don't understand the claims being made in the gospel. They simply reject it. This is fallen man's default position. When someone gets saved it is because God has drawn near and personally introduced Himself.
God came to Adam and Eve directly after their fall. God came and walked with Enoch. God came and spoke to Noah. God came and spoke to Abraham. And God still comes near today and speaks into creation new creations wherein old things pass away and all things become new. His sheep hear His voice.
To those who are perishing, the gospel is foolishness anyways. It's not that they don't understand the claims being made in the gospel. They simply reject it. This is fallen man's default position. When someone gets saved it is because God has drawn near and personally introduced Himself.
God came to Adam and Eve directly after their fall. God came and walked with Enoch. God came and spoke to Noah. God came and spoke to Abraham. And God still comes near today and speaks into creation new creations wherein old things pass away and all things become new. His sheep hear His voice.
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Sorry. The question you asked would most likely require about three hours of teaching to cover all you wanted to know.
Maybe only one hour.
Not trying to be factitious.
Most Christians receive only weak or poor teachings....
If someone really wants to know something in depth?
They seek for a teacher whom God has qualified.
I'm not such a teacher.
But, the answer.. I have found, you will find a way of avoiding.
Maybe only one hour.
Not trying to be factitious.
Most Christians receive only weak or poor teachings....
If someone really wants to know something in depth?
They seek for a teacher whom God has qualified.
I'm not such a teacher.
But, the answer.. I have found, you will find a way of avoiding.
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yhe greek word for rejoiced means to leap much. I believe jesus is painting a picture here of Abraham leaping into the ait trying to see over the temporal horizon to catch a glimpse of hoe the promises would be fulfilled., and God gave Abraham some revelation and insight into the work Jesus would come to do, and Abraham was glad when he received this insight. .
Jesus said, Abraham leaped much to see My day and he saw it. and was gled.
Jesus said, Abraham leaped much to see My day and he saw it. and was gled.
Show me in Romans 1 where Paul talks about "God consciousness". Of course, you can't, so you just came up with your wacky-doodle theory, didn't you?
Conversely, Gen 3:15 does explicitly speak of two seeds. Yet, you characterize those seeds as being my theory? (When you attended seminary or whatever they must have offered a course in Lame Excuses 101, which you obviously aced!) And then you brag about what a great a expositor of scripture you are. Oy Vey!
But before I let you go, I'm going to rattle your cage with another great analogy.
Before Adam sinned the image of his Maker that was imprinted upon his soul must have also been "very good". But that changed after he fell and plunged the human race into ruin. The image remains, but it, too, is ruined. I believe all men know or sense intuitively that Something greater than they exist. Some call it a "higher power", "prime mover", "deity", "spirit", God, etc. The bible and Natural Revelation both tell us that mankind is as idolatrous as it is religious, which accounts for the numerous religions that exist in this world to this day. The sons of men just cannot help but turn God's image within them inside out and make God into their own image -- according to their own carnal, profane, wicked imaginations. Why do men do this? They do it because the image within them is so distorted, twisted and perverted that they can't understand what they are "seeing" within themselves --what it is that they're sensing, feeling, etc. So out of their frustration and to satisfy their own guilty conscience (yes, I believe all men know they are sinners!), man has decided to replace the marred and defaced image with an idol of their own making that they can understand. This is why all man-made religions, save for the more metaphysical ones that tend to be highly abstract, have one thing in common: They're all works-based. Sinners think they can do something to mitigate their guilt and please their gods simultaneously.
When sinners look into their own souls or hearts to try to make sense of the image within them, all they can see is an unrecognizable, deformed image. We could liken this experience to a visit to the Fun House with all its many peculiar mirrors. Now, we know that when we look into those mirrors, it is us simply because non one else is around. But at the same time, we don't look anything like ourselves, do we? Our image in the mirrors is totally deformed -- beyond recognition -- BUT...AN image is still there. Yet, it is very far removed from an exact representation of what we actually look like.
Having said all that...there is One Man who existed who bore God's image perfectly. (The operative term is bolded!)
Heb 1:3a
3 The Son is the radiance of God's glory and the exact representation of his being,
NIV
(See also 2Cor 4:4; Col 1:15.)
Translate: The image of the Father was PERFECTLY and ACCURATELY and FLAWLESSLY imprinted upon the Son's soul. In other words, it was free from all distortion, corruption, deformities, flaws and imperfections. Now...I'm thinking this certainly helps to explain how Christ was also free from all sin.
But as far as Natural Man goes, we know he cannot not sin. Since this is the case, then just how damaged is God's image upon the souls of the sons of men? Just what happened to Adam's soul when God removed his Spirit from him and he died -- when Adam become free from the Spirit of Life that had been breathed into him on the sixth day? When the Light of Life left him, didn't Adam's soul and heart became darkness itself?
Conversely, Gen 3:15 does explicitly speak of two seeds. Yet, you characterize those seeds as being my theory? (When you attended seminary or whatever they must have offered a course in Lame Excuses 101, which you obviously aced!) And then you brag about what a great a expositor of scripture you are. Oy Vey!
But before I let you go, I'm going to rattle your cage with another great analogy.
Before Adam sinned the image of his Maker that was imprinted upon his soul must have also been "very good". But that changed after he fell and plunged the human race into ruin. The image remains, but it, too, is ruined. I believe all men know or sense intuitively that Something greater than they exist. Some call it a "higher power", "prime mover", "deity", "spirit", God, etc. The bible and Natural Revelation both tell us that mankind is as idolatrous as it is religious, which accounts for the numerous religions that exist in this world to this day. The sons of men just cannot help but turn God's image within them inside out and make God into their own image -- according to their own carnal, profane, wicked imaginations. Why do men do this? They do it because the image within them is so distorted, twisted and perverted that they can't understand what they are "seeing" within themselves --what it is that they're sensing, feeling, etc. So out of their frustration and to satisfy their own guilty conscience (yes, I believe all men know they are sinners!), man has decided to replace the marred and defaced image with an idol of their own making that they can understand. This is why all man-made religions, save for the more metaphysical ones that tend to be highly abstract, have one thing in common: They're all works-based. Sinners think they can do something to mitigate their guilt and please their gods simultaneously.
When sinners look into their own souls or hearts to try to make sense of the image within them, all they can see is an unrecognizable, deformed image. We could liken this experience to a visit to the Fun House with all its many peculiar mirrors. Now, we know that when we look into those mirrors, it is us simply because non one else is around. But at the same time, we don't look anything like ourselves, do we? Our image in the mirrors is totally deformed -- beyond recognition -- BUT...AN image is still there. Yet, it is very far removed from an exact representation of what we actually look like.
Having said all that...there is One Man who existed who bore God's image perfectly. (The operative term is bolded!)
Heb 1:3a
3 The Son is the radiance of God's glory and the exact representation of his being,
NIV
(See also 2Cor 4:4; Col 1:15.)
Translate: The image of the Father was PERFECTLY and ACCURATELY and FLAWLESSLY imprinted upon the Son's soul. In other words, it was free from all distortion, corruption, deformities, flaws and imperfections. Now...I'm thinking this certainly helps to explain how Christ was also free from all sin.
But as far as Natural Man goes, we know he cannot not sin. Since this is the case, then just how damaged is God's image upon the souls of the sons of men? Just what happened to Adam's soul when God removed his Spirit from him and he died -- when Adam become free from the Spirit of Life that had been breathed into him on the sixth day? When the Light of Life left him, didn't Adam's soul and heart became darkness itself?
The very condensed explanation is easy to understand. Paul is making a comparison between two experiences he hd. He [thought of himself as being alive] before he understood the commandment about coveting. Then afterwards when he became convicted by the Law, he knew he was nothing more than a dead sinner. Paul is not saying that he was actually alive spiritually.
