Dan 4:35
All the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing;
He does according to His will in the army of heaven
And among the inhabitants of the earth.
No one can restrain His hand
Or say to Him, “What have You done?”
Can We Really Exercise Free Will?
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All the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing;
He does according to His will in the army of heaven
And among the inhabitants of the earth.
No one can restrain His hand
Or say to Him, “What have You done?”
Yes, it is! The devil sows the tares... The Parable of the Weeds from MATTHEW 13
(see also Ezekiel 17:1–10)
24 Jesus put before them another parable: “The kingdom of heaven is like a man who sowed good seed
in his field. 25 But while everyone was asleep, his enemy came and sowed weeds among the wheat, and
slipped away. 26 When the wheat sprouted and bore grain, then the weeds also appeared.
27 The owner’s servants came to him and said, ‘Sir, didn’t you sow
good seed in your field? Where then did the weeds come from?’
28 ‘An enemy did this,’ he replied.
So the servants asked him, ‘Do you want us to go and pull them up?’
29 ‘No,’ he said, ‘if you pull the weeds now, you might uproot the wheat with them. 30 Let both grow
together until the harvest. At that time I will tell the harvesters: First collect the weeds and tie them
in bundles to be burned; then gather the wheat into my barn.’”
Revelation 22 verses 11-13 ~ Let the unrighteous continue to be unrighteous, and the vile continue to be vile; let the righteous continue to practice righteousness, and the holy continue to be holy.” “Behold, I am coming soon, and My reward is with Me, to give to each one according to what he has done. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End.”
From Galatians 4:22-24 plus 28-29 and 5:1 Abraham had two sons, one by the slave woman and the other by the free woman. His son by the slave woman was born according to the flesh, but his son by the free woman was born through the promise. These things serve as illustrations, for the women represent two covenants. One covenant is from Mount Sinai and bears children into slavery. We, like Isaac, are children of promise. The son born by the flesh persecuted the son born by the Spirit. It is the same now. It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not be encumbered once more by a yoke of slavery.
Isaiah 40 v 6B-8 All flesh is like grass, and all its glory like the flowers of the field. The grass withers and the flowers fall when the breath of the LORD blows on them; indeed, the people are grass. The grass withers and the flowers fall, but the word of our God stands forever.
“What does it mean that someone is in Christ? “
are you asking what the Bible teaches about it ?
“What are the benefits that accrue to an individual who is in Christ?”
And are you asking about if someone abides in him or doesn’t ?
Choose to "become" or choose to do albeit imperfectly according to God provided conscience and work of His law in hearts of men.
And yes, we do in effect and indirectly choose to become something different through belief in who God is and what God promises.
Vs. corpse man, no conscience, no sense.
Run your premise and conclusion through a fallacies check. Then go back and do the same with the statement I responded to and where you took it. So many errors...
Grace only saves when unassisted! Anything added to grace immediately cancels out grace.
Yes there’s a lot you say that I’m definately not aware of . Or don’t “ realize “
Im more trying to learn the things scripture teaches us to learn and believe and consider though so I probably never will realize some of those things
“And I saw another angel fly in the midst of heaven, having the everlasting gospel to preach unto them that dwell on the earth, and to every nation, and kindred, and tongue, and people, saying with a loud voice, Fear God, and give glory to him; for the hour of his judgment is come: and worship him that made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and the fountains of waters.”
Revelation 14:6-7 KJV
“Then Peter opened his mouth, and said, Of a truth I perceive that God is no respecter of persons: but in every nation he that feareth him, and worketh righteousness, is accepted with him.”
Acts 10:34-35 KJV
^^I’m interested things like that which the Bible teaches very consistently that’s why I come to a bible discussion form . So I may not realize a lot of the things you realize about being chosen and elect ect ect
It is God Who works in you to will and to act on behalf of His good purpose. Apart from Me you can do nothing. No word from God will ever fail. “It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.” Those who heard this asked, “Who then can be saved?” But Jesus said, “What is impossible with man is possible with God.”
They continually have the person who can neither receive nor comprehend the spiritual things
of God -to which he is actually opposed- choosing to agree with what is nonsense to him while
hostile in his mind toward God... and to them that makes sense in their theology.
That is why they must reject and rewrite 1 Cor 2:14.
Not to mention a plethora of other verses which they repeatedly contradict and outright deny.
The truth of God's Word means nothing to them if they cannot squeeze it into their false doctrine.
The Greek for New Creation means what?
It does not mean "renewal."
It means becoming something that has never existed before.
Totally "New" in what it is.
Yes... Your soul will remain being your soul.
But, how we will function with our soul will be things unheard of, nor can be presently imagined.
However, as it is written: “What no eye has seen, what no ear has heard,
and what no human mind has conceived” — the things God has prepared
for those who love him.” 1 Corinthians 2:9
grace and peace ...........
Then the act of believing nullifies grace.
This is one of several ways to respond to your error.
But I don't think you can be helped.
Of course from the Bible. What does it mean to be in Christ? And what are the benefits of being in Christ?
If you can, just put it it in your own words. I'll stipulate that what you post is what the Bible teaches.
Says who?
But, where is that definition to be found in Scripture?
Grace is assisted with the presentation of Christ! Romans 10:17.
The whole problem stems from a lack of understanding of how the depravity of the flesh dominates over one's soul,
making the soul unable to function righteously, as a drunken man can not think straight, nor function in a right way.
But remove the alcohol from the system? What do you get? The same actions and thoughts? NO!
Grace sobers up that soul when it comes time for deciding for, or against, the God who has been drawing him.
Grace assists the soul to be made free from the tyranny of the flesh.
And, when God's grace has the soul in that freed state?
Then, the soul must decide what it wants to believe.
And, yes. Souls that were placed in that state of freedom?
Can choose to REJECT what is right!
Just like Satan and his angels chose to reject the Lord!
grace and peace ..............
No! I realize that you believe Satan's lie, that we did not die spiritually. However, that is precisely why belief follows regeneration. Otherwise, grace would no longer be grace. Belief is a gift of God, to those He has chosen, not those who chose Him.
Grace does not make one to believe.
Grace simply enables the freed soul (by grace) to believe.
Grace places the recipient in the state of the angels when they chose for, or against, the Lord.
Somebody tell @Cameron143 that reproducing after your kind has nothing whatsoever to do with those parables either.