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There is controversy over that point. How can any person know that another person has been born from above? Scripture indicates that it is when a person acknowledges Christ is lord and believes in his hear that GOD raised him from the dead. From that point on he is in covenant relationship with...

Yes, the new birth is essential. However, the ones that I am talking about are those who believe a person who has been born from above, but doesn't follow on to know the lord and do his will, will be saved simply because he is born again. That IMO is the new gnosticism.

That makes sense.

Virtually the whole OT is about Israel's "on again, off again" faith.

But it's pretty obvious that all of the Israelites who came out of Egypt did believe the command to put blood of the Passover lamb on their door frames. So to say they didn't have a true, underlying faith is ridiculous because their faith saved their firstborns.

You need to go read Ezekiel 33:12-20

That's all that I'm saying. Those who believe enter. They believed enough to get saved out of Egypt, but stopped believing during trials.

You don't understand how contradictory your beliefs are. You just got through saying one's spiritual nature (the new birth) doesn't save a person, but here said that it does in so many words, i.e., the spiritual birth can't be undone.

This is hilarious. If i didn't know better I'd think it was parody.

The heavenly Jerusalem is the real Jerusalem. It's not allegory. And it will eventually come to earth.

Yet sons can be disinherited

If anyone corrupts God’s temple, God will corrupt this one, for God’s temple is holy, which you are. 1 Corinthians 3:17

A word that's used only 4 times in the NT to signify a crown, the resurrected body, our inheritance and GOD's seed that regenerates us. Nowhere are we called incorruptible.

Believing in GOD doesn't mean anything. Muslims are some of the greatest believers in GOD. Keeping the faith is what saves.

Man's spirit, soul and body can all become defiled by sinful behavior.

Show where that is written. I can show you where he has laid down conditions that if not met will result in a destiny identical with those who were never sealed..

IMO he implies it all of the time because those are the main points of his arguments. Born can't become unborn, sealed can't become unsealed, eternal life can't be lost because it's eternal, a son can't not be a son, etc., etc. (Some of these he may not have said specifically, but they're all...

Many nations since the first century AD have been, and are, coming to Mt Zion and to the house of the God of Jacob, that He may teach them about His ways and that they may walk in His paths. No new revelation here, Mr. Johnson. But you have come to Mount Zion, and to the city of the living God...

FWIW, IMO some people do all that showy stuff because they don't have a deep relationship with GOD.

IMO you think the new birth saves you. I don't see how that's different than the gnostics believing their spiritual nature saved them. I've been ignoring your question about being sealed because it's so dumb and not relevant. GOD can unseal what he seals.