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To: .45 Long Colt
I will remind you that King David committed adultery

Do you believe Josh Duggar was saved from all his sins, past, present, and future when he had his born again/altar call conversion experience ?

Do you believe that the Jewish people are at least, the least of the Messiah's brethren ?

76 posted on 08/25/2015 10:50:54 AM PDT by af_vet_1981 (The bus came by and I got on, That's when it all began.)
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To: af_vet_1981
Do you believe Josh Duggar was saved from all his sins, past, present, and future when he had his born again/altar call conversion experience ?

If it was genuine.

That's God's call to make.

Don't forget that Lot was called *righteous Lot* by Peter, the guy you claim to be your first pope.

98 posted on 08/25/2015 1:00:46 PM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: af_vet_1981

I am uncertain what you mean by “the least of Messiah’s brethren.” The Jews were Christ’s ethnic brethren and I believe many Jews will yet come to understand He is the only way to eternal life. Outside of Christ, there’s no eternal hope for any man, Jew or Gentile.

“Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.”

“And there is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved.”

I have no idea if Josh Duggar has ever been born again, but if he has, his sin has been forgiven because Christ paid the sin debt in full for His church at Calvary. If Josh Duggar has been born again he has been given a new heart and a new nature, but he still has his old nature and right now he’s a conflicted soul.

Here’s how Paul described that conflict within himself:

“18 For I know that nothing good dwells in me, that is, in my flesh. For I have the desire to do what is right, but not the ability to carry it out. 19 For I do not do the good I want, but the evil I do not want is what I keep on doing. 20 Now if I do what I do not want, it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells within me.”
—Romans 7:18-20

Walking an aisle and having a conversion experience never saved anyone. Just as a dead man can’t decide to live, a man dead in trespasses and sins cannot decide to be spiritually reborn into God’s kingdom. Being regenerated (or born again) is a miracle of grace performed by the Holy Spirit in the heart of an undeserving hell-bound sinner. When Nicodemus asked how he could be born again, Jesus didn’t tell him to pray, walk an aisle, make a decision, or do anything whatsoever. In fact, he said that which is born of the flesh is flesh. Flesh always begets flesh. Instead of telling him to do something, Jesus said something that clearly perplexed Nicodemus. He likened the work of the Spirit to the wind.

“Do not marvel that I said to you, ‘You must be born again.’ The wind blows where it wishes, and you hear its sound, but you do not know where it comes from or where it goes. So it is with everyone who is born of the Spirit.”
—John 3:7-8

“For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast.”
—Ephesians 2:8-9


100 posted on 08/25/2015 2:09:55 PM PDT by .45 Long Colt
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