No CJ you do not believe God is sovereign if you believe His grace needed your ok first..you believe your will is sovereign..not Gods grace...
But in all this hair-splitting (which is how I would define it), I have one overall question to you, Mom. You say the Book of Life was written BEFORE time...before the foundation of the earth. Predestination.
No I do not say thet the Bible says that
Eph 1:4 According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love:
Rev 13:8 And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.
1. Do you know your name is in it? YES
2. How do you know?
s. Romans 8:16 "The Spirit Himself bears witness with our Spirit, that we are children of God"
3. What was God's predestination selection criteria? Eph 1:5 Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will,
4. What if you BELIEVE you are saved, but you aren't in "The Book" because God didn't "choose" you? Are you saved or not?
If God did not chose me I could pray 100 sinners prayer...go to communion every day...I could give all I own to the poor..and I would still be lost. (but I would not WANT to cj..no man seeks after God..read Romans).
5. Is God fair?
Does he have to be? Show me the scripture that says God has to be "fair"
Rom 9:15 For he saith to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion.
That CJ is a sovereign God ..that IS "fair"
"O me of simple faith"...
Simple faith SHOULD give God all the glory and not steal any for itself:>)
If God did not chose me I could pray 100 sinners prayer...go to communion every day...I could give all I own to the poor..and I would still be lost.
And you know this isn't the case because? (That is, that you aren't fooling yourself)
(but I would not WANT to cj..no man seeks after God..read Romans).
So the "proof" of being saved is the fact that you seek after God?
What about the person above who goes to Church and says the sinners prayer, etc. These are evidence of seeking after God, no? Then they must all be saved.
Angelo has been erneastly seeking after God for many years. So he must be saved, right?
It's no wonder you guys have to mock the experiences of other cultures. Because their attempts to seek after God, even though they have not received Revelation, is evidence that they are all saved. Hooray!
SD