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To: P-Marlowe
I am not going to trade scripture bricks with you or engage you in some kind of juvenile proof text exchange.

No, you instead will not answer hard questions, change the subject, pretend you can read my mind, and then throw out your own proof text.

115 posted on 01/22/2014 5:26:11 AM PST by FatherofFive (Islam is evil and must be eradicated)
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To: FatherofFive; P-Marlowe
Is this your "hard" question...

So what is the meaning of the verse that Paul is ‘working out my salvation in fear and trembling’ (Phil. 2:12)

We work out of salvation in "fear and trembling" not because we fear the Father, for perfect love cast out all fear. Rather we work out our salvation in "fear and trembling" because our love for the Father is (should be) so great that we want to bring honor and glory to Him, not reproach. Our nature is such that we can bring reproach. Understanding that we are sinful creatures help us to understand that we can dishonor the Father and Son. Therefore we work out our salvation in fear that we will bring dishonor to God. This is the love that God has instilled in us.

117 posted on 01/22/2014 6:06:23 AM PST by HarleyD (...one of his disciples, whom Jesus loved.)
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To: FatherofFive; HarleyD; Gamecock
No, you instead will not answer hard questions

Post 108 was a hard question. Post 107 and 109 were stupid questions and were phrased in such a way as to evoke an emotional response.

I believe that HarleyD did an excellent job of answering your question in Post 108.

Looking at the whole argument fairly it appears that you believe that a God who makes the decision on whom he will extend saving Grace is evil. That it is not fair that people who are not extended such saving Grace are not allowed to make a Free Will choice to be saved. But you fail to realize that it is the Free Will of man which prevents people from coming to a saving knowledge of Christ and that any and all "Free Will" choices of men will always be to reject Christ as it is not in the nature of Fallen man to turn to God. Those who ultimately make their choice for Christ do not do so of their own free will, but instead are responding as sheep who hear the voice of their shepherd. They respond because they are sheep.

Christ promised he would not lose any of his sheep. Thus if you are numbered among Christ's sheep, your salvation is now, and has always been, in the hands of God.

Is it unfair that God gets to pick his own sheep?

That was most eloquently answered by Paul in Romans Chapter 9.

Who are you to question God's decisions? God is the potter. We are but clay.

118 posted on 01/22/2014 7:00:42 AM PST by P-Marlowe (There can be no Victory without a fight and no battle without wounds)
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