To die in one's sins is to die in Adam! Just like he wasn't forgiven as the Serpent's type, and his spiritual father will never be forgiven, neither will any of Adam's progeny.
Can We Really Exercise Free Will?
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To die in one's sins is to die in Adam! Just like he wasn't forgiven as the Serpent's type, and his spiritual father will never be forgiven, neither will any of Adam's progeny.
Says the woman dressed in pagan garb, having a dragon tattoo on her arm, as she is whispering to a unicorn?
World is kosmos which has several definitions. People generally choose the definition that aligns with their beliefs.
Interesting observation. I didn't pay that close attention to it.
As a man, yes. As God, no! Hope you enjoy profound paradoxes. After all, scripture is chock full of those.
He submitted His will to the Father's. He prayed mightily about it. "Not My will but Thine be done."
He knew His purpose, and fulfilled it.
Do you think mortal humans in their natural state can submit to God?
Scripture says no. What say you?
The mind of the flesh is death, but the mind of the Spirit is life and peace, because the mind of the flesh is hostile to God: It does not submit to God’s law, nor can it do so. Those controlled by the flesh cannot please God. Romans 8 v 6-8 This is what we speak, not in words taught us by human wisdom but in words taught by the Spirit, explaining spiritual realities with Spirit-taught words. The person without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God but considers them foolishness, and cannot understand them because they are discerned only through the Spirit. 1 Corinthians 2 v 13-14
Flesh serves the law of sin. For the flesh craves what is contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit what is contrary to the flesh. They are opposed to each other. Nothing good lives in my flesh. Who can say, “I have kept my heart pure; I am clean and without sin”? Who can bring what is pure from the impure? No one! The flesh brings forth fruit unto death. Romans 7 v 25, Galatians 5 v 17, Romans 7 v 18, Proverbs 20 v 9, Job 14 v 4, Romans 7 v 5 (Romans 8 v 13 and James 1 v 15)
The word millennium isn't in the Bible. The thousand years is simply a large number. God owns the cattle on a thousand hills says scripture. Does that mean God only owns a thousand hills?
I would think that it would have to mean the sins of this world then. Because that is where they have to be cleansed in order to make it to the next. Thats just me anyways. To me the Bible was written for the church in the church age. What ever happens in the next world is a result of your response to the gospel in this world. I just dont get why the Bible would be written to all the future saints existing in heaven. Thats like writing a book to tell people how to get to heaven who are already in heaven. It jist dont make sence in my head is all.
Psalm 24 verses 1-2 ~ The earth is the LORD’s, and the fullness thereof, the world and all who dwell therein. For He has founded it upon the seas and established it upon the waters.
He submitted His will to the Father's. He prayed mightily about it. "Not My will but Thine be done."
He knew His purpose, and fulfilled it.
Do you think mortal humans in their natural state can submit to God?
Scripture says no. What say you?
Choosing to do the will of the father does not mean he wasn't free to refuse the cross. For someone who was eager to point out the conflation of others you employ it quite literally yourself.
No but we also don't lose free will once we submit to God. If we are free to say no the we can't be acting out of love.
The mind of the flesh is death, but the mind of the Spirit is life and peace, because the mind of the flesh is hostile to God: It does not submit to God’s law, nor can it do so. Those controlled by the flesh cannot please God. Romans 8 v 6-8 This is what we speak, not in words taught us by human wisdom but in words taught by the Spirit, explaining spiritual realities with Spirit-taught words. The person without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God but considers them foolishness, and cannot understand them because they are discerned only through the Spirit. 1 Corinthians 2 v 13-14
I did not say He was not free to refuse the cross. Where are you getting this
???You are eager to prove something wrong based on your imagination alone.
Therefore you conflate your erroneous imagination with reality. Yikes!
As a man is all that matters. He was free to choose otherwise the agony in the garden was just theater.
There are different speakers/writers involved in all three of those posts of mine that I cited earlier: that I wrote: John, Jesus and Paul. The term "world" in those three different passages cannot possibly be understood logically as being used in the distributive sense. All the speakers/writers would have contradicted themselves in the very context of those passages. This is why none of you pathetic empty suits even dared to tackle one of those posts.
Really? So, now you're going to DIVIDE the nature of Christ! Christ was only fully divine part time...or when YOU say He was divine?
I did not say He was not free to refuse the cross. Where are you getting this
Wow you're getting agitated. I can't talk with people who use their potty mouth language.
So if Jesus was free to refuse the cross so are we free to do his will it not. Some times we choose the former and sometimes we choose the latter.