Matthew 11 verse 27 ~ All things have been entrusted to Me by My Father. No one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and those to whom the Son chooses to reveal Him.
Can We Really Exercise Free Will?
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Matthew 11 verse 27 ~ All things have been entrusted to Me by My Father. No one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and those to whom the Son chooses to reveal Him.
continue reading to see to whom the Lord Jesus Christ extends His invitation ...
Matthew 11:28 Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.
it is an open invitation to all who are laboring ... basically all mankind ...
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It still does not say that Jesus reveals God to all, but those He chooses.
Read more carefully: No one knows the Father except those Jesus chooses. Try again?
James 1:2-4 My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations; Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience. But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.
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John 15 verse 16 plus from 1 Peter 2 verse 9 ~ You did not choose Me, but I chose you. And I appointed you to go and bear fruit— fruit that will remain— so that whatever you ask the Father in My name, He will give you. You are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a people to proclaim the virtues of Him Who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light.
hey Rufus, I've been away for 5 days, I wondered if Rufus was your really name.
I think the poster may never have saw my intension correctly, but anyway comments made 5 days ago mean nothing to me now, in the sense of letting them upset me.
But they still mean something in the sense that I feel a senses of empathy for a person being consumed by religious abuse,
It's Diffacult to know really if a person consumed by religious hatred is a person who has been inflicted by it also, I guess I'm still learning on that one, but I believe I'm mature enough to learn.
So but the poster may not have fully realised, I had identified key traits in people consumed by religious hatred, after studying people's attitudes on YouTube, all with the same issues which was having issues with imaginary false idols.
But what all these people didn't realise was, they never should have been having issues with false idols, because what they where believing was all false.
It's a bit sad because they then encourage everybody else to have issues, with something that really shouldn't have became an issue, but then they get more of an issue, because you can't even talk to them about it without it leading to arguing about religious hatred.
Yep I think the poster didn't realise I was analysing real people's attitudes and characters and how they can become, I think he thought I was making it up or something.
Which may happen to a normal person too.
Anyways what's been and gone as gone.
Moving forward
What's your views on a pricked conscience being a type of enabling grace also.
Does the Lord Jesus Christ withhold revealing His Father from any who accept His invitation to come to Him?
Matthew 11:27-30 All things are delivered unto me of my Father: and no man knoweth the Son, but the Father; neither knoweth any man the Father, save the Son, and he to whomsoever the Son will reveal him. Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.
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Romans 8 verse 29-30; Ephesians 1 verse 5 ~ Those God foreknew, He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, so that He would be the firstborn among many brothers. And those He predestined, He also called; those He called, He also justified; those He justified, He also glorified. He predestined us for adoption as His sons through Jesus Christ, according to the good pleasure of His will.
God is the ONE who selected how much faith each person gets. That is the measuring of Faith Paul is talking about.
okay then the "the measure" is implied and my mistake for characterizing it otherwise - an oversight on my part. The "the" is implied in two different translations. Nevertheless, the "the" doesn't materially change the meaning of that part of the verse - it still means to measure, not have a measure.
[Rom 12:3 KJV] 3 For I say, through the grace given unto me, to every man that is among you, not to think [of himself] more highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith.
[Rom 12:3 ESV] 3 For by the grace given to me I say to everyone among you not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think with sober judgment, each according to the measure of faith that God has assigned.
Yes, I asked yesterday if you consider yourself to be a chosen one since you say that I am not.
It's not because God gave every living human being a measure of Faith. The Reformed denies this because this is how the spiritually dead person is able to believe in God before Regeneration. But they're able to believe because God created the human being with a measure of Faith and that human being is able to use it to believe.
