Agreed. Let us both believe as we wish. Take care also.Believe as you wish. I'm not trying to debate, take care.
Agreed. Let us both believe as we wish. Take care also.Believe as you wish. I'm not trying to debate, take care.
So, you're able to pray for God to go back in time and cause someone to receive Jesus before they would have gone to hell and you've only done this for only 10 or 12 people?
You know I am only joking with you Tourist (my previous post). I do wonder though, are you saying that God changed the time line of events because of your prayer retroactively, or are you saying because He knew you would make that prayer (before creating the universe) for their soul they before dying accepted Christ (on the basis of that prayer in accordance with His will)?
The thing about prayer Ben as with anything else, God knows everything and has always known everything including a prayer of salvation. I don't believe that God would have to change anything at all but only allow certain things to take place leading to salvation. This salvation may have occurred a split second before death but it occur if the prayer was answered.
Well here's a question for you tourist: In 1972 I had a full-term still-born boy that we buried in California. When is his day of salvation?
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The day of his salvation was the moment he died while in the womb but I'm sure that God took him right away to be with Him so technically he didn't require salvation because there was no need of repentance.
I don't believe that. I believe all children will be included in the second resurrection given us in Rev. 20. Why would God that calls Himself love condemn most people that can't quite cut it with Him. The little season Satan is released is when the world will hold the "rest of the dead." That will be the time when God will pour out His Spirit on all flesh (Joel 2:28, 29). There is something character building about overcoming evil. That is why Satan will be used again, then destroyed (Ezek. 28:29).
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As I read thru this thread the thought occurred to me......Sometimes we forget that the Jewish nation as a whole rejected JESUS and cried, "LET his blood be upon us and our children" <---the context of this statement is clear.....and lest we forget....If I remember right, almost 1 million Jews (estimated) were put to the sword when the Roman General Titus suppressed the uprising in Israel and razed Jerusalem.......not that I am judging anyone's salvation....but we must be clear...there is ONE and only ONE door into the kingdom of GOD...just saying......
Jesus said unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man comes unto the Father,but we must be clear...there is ONE and only ONE door into the kingdom of GOD
Jesus said unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man comes unto the Father,
but by me. John 14:6
Jesus is talking about two aspects of salvation in this verse.
1: true faith and salvation in one's lifetime is only in and of Jesus as Lord and Redeemer
who suffered and died as an atonement for our penalty of death due to sin.
2: Judgement; in that all people will undergo judgement by Jesus as to life or death.
Revelation 20. Again it is only through Jesus that one has any hope of mercy and
forgiveness - it is Jesus who writes the names in the Book of Life or removes such
names from the Book.
All authority has been given to Jesus.
Yes, that would be somewhat accurate.
Okay, now if you could just prove from scripture that God will change a person's eternal destiny, not based on their own decision to trust Christ, but based on your decision to pray salvation to them on their behalf.
It troubles me that whether for or against, you're asking for a judgment call, for we can't say where any of those Jews went.I was watching a documentary on the Holocaust, and they had a small segment on Anne Frank. I'm sure most of you know who she was and probably read her diary in school, as I did. I'm also sure most of you know her fate - death in a Concentration Camp about a month and a half before the end of the war.
It troubles me greatly knowing that she, and the 6 million Jewish victims of Hitler, are now in Hades.
I know doctrine. I know that we are all sinners deserving hell. I know the holiness of God demands punishment for the lost. But I can't help thinking about that poor girl, suffering in darkness, a victim of a satanically possessed mass murderer.
She harmed no one. Loved greatly. Just a child. Yet her eternal fate is sealed.
Maybe I'm just in a melancholy mood. Maybe I don't understand as much as I think I do.
Thoughts?