Posted on 01/21/2014 12:12:51 PM PST by Laissez-faire capitalist
Punch 2 and maybe you’ll get saved twice. :>)
Ping to #20.
Lot was called *righteous Lot* in 2 Peter. Hardly a term that I’d use to describe Lot.
David committed adultery and murder. Wanna guess whether he was saved or not?
Joseph was accused of rape, thus being thrown in prison. I don’t know if those charges were ever dropped.
Moses murdered a man.
Samson was no paragon of virtue either.
Jesus was accused of being a drunkard and glutton for eating and drinking with tax collectors and sinners.
Appearances can be deceitful and we need to be careful of judging a person’s salvation by their ability to conquer the sin which so easily besets all of us. Those works are not necessarily an indicators of one’s salvation.
The message of the cross of which we are ambassadors, is one of reconciliation.
If the person is not saved, it’s reconciliation with God through Jesus Christ for salvation. If they are saved, it is reconciliation for the purpose of restoring fellowship. God is responsible for ensuring the person’s salvation. We can pray and we can encourage, rebuke, exort, etc, but we are not the final Judge and jury.
Interesting - didn’t know they look the same until they’re close to harvest. Guess they aren’t normal weeds you’d know right away they weren’t wheat.
Given Joseph became the second in command of all of Egypt under Pharoah, you can be assured those charges were dropped.
Yes, exactly. Everything he points out is true, but it doesn’t really invalidate Calvinism, since Calvinism doesn’t claim to tell us who is and who isn’t saved.
I thought 1 was for English.
They keep changing these dang phone menus!
so go ahead and push #1....it certainly can't hurt you, and you may get a free offer of a bible or something!!!
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Can we as Christians know that all believers will endure to the end? Yes, because it is Christ who keeps us.
PHI 1:6 Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ.
2PE 1:10 Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall.
JOH 10:28 And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand.
JOH 10:29 My Father, which gave them me, is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father's hand.
1JO 3:9 Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin; for his seed remaineth in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God.
1PE 1:5 Who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time. 9 Receiving the end of your faith, even the salvation of your souls.
The only one who can answer if they're a true believer is themselves. Therefore, we cannot judge others.
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Maybe because I care about my children, my parents, my siblings, my friends, my relatives, etc.? It pains me to think that they might spend their eternity separated from God.
While we can never definitely know, one's fruits can certainly provide some assurance.
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