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Some Related Biblical Statements Before addressing these various theological issues, it will be helpful first to highlight some biblical statements that may be related to the question in some way. God passionately calls rebellious Israel to covenant blessing (Deut. 5:29). God pleads longingly...

https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/essay/free-offer-gospel/ DEFINITION The gospel is freely offered to all people, regardless of whether or not they are elect, able to respond in their sin nature, included in the doctrine of the particular atonement, etc.; the free offer of election to man is...

Again , I wonder how many here realize what they're saying about God and his heart, his character, when they believe any aspect of the false doctrine related in any way to Tulip. :( Taking scripture out of context to support its premise is not sustaining the Gospel according to Tulip. It is...

The thing about discussion sites is everyone defends their belief as if their soul depends on it. It's just the way of traditions that offer salvation through belief in what is taught. I'll leave you to your denominational construct and wish you the best as you work to stay saved. No snark...

Let us hope not. :LOL:

You do realize that the mustard seed parable wasn't to be taken from a literal perspective? Mustard seed, nor any seed for that matter, does not have faith. Also just to tie seed facts up nice and tidy. :) How many gardeners are there here? Seed is not dead if it is said to later grow into...

Does it scare you to propose to them when does a human egg become a baby? Maybe it's just me. :unsure::LOL:

Air traffic control has no place in this even as an analogy because a mustard seed doesn't believe it is a mustard seed. It does not hold faith it is a mustard seed. A mustard seed's innate characteristic being a mustard seed is such that when planted it grows a mustard plant from itself...

You're saying we must earn our salvation by enduring to the end? That's not in scripture. John 10:28–30 28 I give[a] them eternal life, and they will never perish;[b] no one will snatch[c] them from my hand. 29 My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all,[d] and no one can snatch[e]...

And a convoluted one it is. I wonder how many that espouse the way of the Tulip is the only truth through God have ever actually read the Westminster Confession of Faith? Or considered in that reading of the whole shebang realized how the WCoF does not articulate itself with certain of the...

Agreed. NET Version Luke 17:6 So[a] the Lord replied,[b] “If[c] you had faith the size of[d] a mustard seed, you could say to this black mulberry[e] tree, ‘Be pulled out by the roots and planted in the sea,’[f] and it would obey[g] you. Footnotes Luke 17:6 tn Here δέ (de) has been translated...

Monergism. A man made fiction wherein it teaches God created people so that he could play with himself eternally. Chiasmus Definition Chiasmus is a rhetorical device in which two or more clauses are balanced against each other by the reversal of their structures in order to produce an...

To whom are you speaking there please? No, I do not reject it. One of the best descriptions of the letter in Corinth, Romans, is found in The Book. I'll share here so as to explain why I don't reject it. And why in my view it does not refute for me what some call OSAS but rather confirms it...

That too. It got me first to thinking of one of the sequels to RotL. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. The grail cup? Which one in the cave would have been that which the Christ would have drank from at the last supper. If you saw the movie you remember that scene. Think, gold.

One of the smallest seeds. The smallest seed on earth belongs in the Orchid family.

eternally I misread your statement as "The Atheists of grace" and i like it. :LOL:(y):D I actually ascribe to OSAS because it is scripture. The rest of what you said is pretty interesting reading. Thank you.

I bet if you cast it on a bonfire the gold leaf makes for pretty sparklies. :unsure:

No kidding. Fact Checkers like in the political realm are, entertaining? ;) While my sister use to know someone at Wiki who was a FC. They were neighbors turns out. That would be fun at parties. "Fact or fiction....." :LOL:

WOW! Not only do you add your own words to scripture, i.e. the pharisee and tax collector verse, but you also add your own maligning thoughts to others postings, in this case per your reference to my observations earlier about Tulip, my post. I'll be really really direct here so that there is...

Which would be impossible if they were to begin as that which is created to represent the T, totally depraved, and the rest of the petals as pertains to Tulip. Do you think so too?