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Post by davidsheep88 on Apr 2, 2021 23:48:56 GMT -5
We start from the beggining when Adam was giving the power to name the animals G-d gave him freewill to choose Genesis 2:20. 20 The man gave names to all livestock and to the birds of the heavens and to every beast of the field. But for Adam there was not found a helper fit for him.
Here G-d gives Adam gives him ability to think for himself and he decide the animals name.
There is difference from the freewill Hebrew people back in the days of Noah and Moses when the law was directed to G-d's people they had freewill to decide. Their decision is under the law because they did not know other religions or ways they were narrowminded but still the decision from good and evil existed. Did the errors of their fathers before them I mean the fall of Adam stopped them making decisions in their life. Israel did what they want based still of need of surviving. Killing, eating, proceating needs of humanity but no matter what the error of Adam did not take freewill from them.
Romans 7:19 “For the good that I want, I do not do, but I practice the very evil that I do not want.”
Ezekiel 18:20 “The person who sins will die. The son will not bear the punishment for the father’s iniquity, nor will the father bear the punishment for the son’s iniquity; the righteousness of the righteous will be upon himself, and the wickedness of the wicked will be upon himself.”
Psalm 110:2 "Your people will volunteer freely in the day of Your power; In holy array, from the womb of the dawn, Your youth are to You as the dew."
From the day pagans evolved into modern world and establish their own way. Even thou they seperated from their pagan worhsip Rome forced them to mix their deities and influence with christianism and robbed the followers of Christ of Jesus and they painted him white. Named the G-d of Israel to Zeus and change their panteon.
Hebrew law or mosaic law reminds people to obey but G-d has taken prophets to save and do the will of G-d in wars, missions, and choosing good and evil. They break the law in disobeying G-d, prophets like Jeremiah who chose G-d disobey tradition and his father and told Israel their errors and love for the temple forgotten the temple inside they are made of. Kick Jeremiah out of their circle rejected from society he continued, we have Elijah who many don't talk about but he change the words of G-d and sentence Jezabel but G-d only wanted to punish Jezabel but Elijah added her family as punishment. G-d was angry at Elijah but forgave him. Still G-d's plan was only Jezabel but he made an exception for Elijah and freewill existed and changed yes G-d allows it.
People can change their course in life but what is the promblem from today. Is how the Greek way of thinking of liberalism was popular in the time of Jesus.
James 2:12 "So speak and so act as those who are to be judged by the law of liberty."
2 Corinthians 3:17 "Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty."
And Greeks influence the time of jesus that people like Luke wrote his book in the bible and later Catholic church not knowing fully Hebrew culture copied things from greeks and influence the bible. Remember they were not G-d's people but A country that stoled and wrote their intrepretation of G-d and took Jesus as an emblema that is not real.
Greek theology is freedom and rationalist thought, Hebrew people is Law and Relation with the one G-d. Greeks have influence the modernworld and gives them right, the western world copies Greek and Roman culture and their diffinity in their laws have given the modern topic freewill. So freewill clashes with freewill in the old times. That is why everything has to do with predestination, Calvanism go ahead and read see all our versions of choosing good and evil have consequences but still you decide your future.
There are 2 fields :indeterminism and determinism explain modern freewill and both give notion of control. Indeterminism means free acts are not determine in other words what you do with works does not foretold your future and the path you have chosen. Determinism says everything you do has already decided your future and you have no career. Nothing can change your destiny but G-d can.
Matthew 12:37 “For by your words you will be justified, and by your words you will be condemned.”
God's general sovereignty- says god is in charge of everything but doesn't control everything God's specific sovereignty- says that He not only has ordained everything, but He also controls everything.
Proverbs 16:9 “The mind of the man plans his way, but the Lord directs his steps.
Proverbs 3:5-6"Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways submit to him, and he will make your paths straight."
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Post by watchful on Apr 3, 2021 8:02:42 GMT -5
<< People can change their course in life but what is the promblem from today. Is how the Greek way of thinking of liberalism was popular in the time of Jesus.
James 2:12 "So speak and so act as those who are to be judged by the law of liberty."
2 Corinthians 3:17 "Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty."
And Greeks influence the time of jesus that people like Luke wrote his book in the bible and later Catholic church not knowing fully Hebrew culture copied things from greeks and influence the bible. Remember they were not G-d's people but A country that stoled and wrote their intrepretation of G-d and took Jesus as an emblema that is not real.
Greek theology is freedom and rationalist thought, Hebrew people is Law and Relation with the one G-d. Greeks have influence the modernworld and gives them right, the western world copies Greek and Roman culture and their diffinity in their laws have given the modern topic freewill. >>
Whoa nellie, what are you saying here brother? That the verses in James 2 and 2 Cor. 3 above are not true (and others like them), but were influenced by Greek thinking? Where the epistles say we are to serve in the new way of the Spirit now, not the old way of the letter...and where the Spirit of the Lord is there is liberty....are these wrong too?
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Post by watchful on Apr 3, 2021 8:10:59 GMT -5
And just to say, I believe the concept of "freewill" is a construct of the carnal mind trying to understand difficult questions. But those verses about liberty are not addressing the question of free will. They are talking about Jerusalem below that is in bondage to the Law (so "cast out the bondwoman and her son") and how the new way of the Spirit in Christ frees the children of promise from being under the Law.
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Post by davidsheep88 on Apr 3, 2021 15:43:31 GMT -5
1 Corinthians 10:12-14
So, if you think you are standing firm, be careful that you don’t fall! No temptation has overtaken you except what is common to mankind. And God is faithful; he will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear. But when you are tempted, he will also provide a way out so that you can endure it. Therefore, my dear friends, flee from idolatry. 1. Christians are threatened and even overtaken by sins brought about through temptations.
2. God never allows us to be tempted beyond what we can bear, but rather provides an escape so that we don’t give in and fall into the sin action that the temptation prompts in us.
3. Yet Christians sin, not only are they “overtaken” in the above quote, but also in 1 John 1:8 there’s the clear report that Christians sin. Most people agree Christians are sinners too.
Conclusion: Every time a Christian sins, the Bible says God provided a way to “escape” falling into that sin. Christians have the freewill to either use that escape route or to reject the God given means to avoid yielding to temptation.
Christians have proper freewill, meaning the ability to do otherwise in any given situation. Freewill isn’t simply “a belief” but an experience, something we can confirm with our own facilities as easily as we confirm light, heat, sound and sights.
Posters who use their counter causal freedom to deny counter causal freedom are deeply confused.
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Post by davidsheep88 on Apr 3, 2021 19:58:11 GMT -5
When God was preparing to judge Nineveh, he sent an unwilling Jonah to preach judgement there. The judgement was based upon Nineveh's wickedness - not God's will for the city. Nineveh was spared because through their free will the whole city repented of their wickedness.
If God's Will was being done perfectly on Earth, we would be experiencing Heaven on Earth. The vanilla statement "Thy Will be done on Earth as it is in Heaven" is itself God's Will. Jesus would not command his followers to pray something that was not God's Will and "be" is the present tense. There is no sin or sickness in Heaven.
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Post by Cletus on Apr 3, 2021 20:48:09 GMT -5
Deu 30:11 For this commandment which I command thee this day, it is not hidden from thee, neither is it far off. Deu 30:12 It is not in heaven, that thou shouldest say, Who shall go up for us to heaven, and bring it unto us, that we may hear it, and do it? Deu 30:13 Neither is it beyond the sea, that thou shouldest say, Who shall go over the sea for us, and bring it unto us, that we may hear it, and do it? Deu 30:14 But the word is very nigh unto thee, in thy mouth, and in thy heart, that thou mayest do it. Deu 30:15 See, I have set before thee this day life and good, and death and evil; Deu 30:16 In that I command thee this day to love the LORD thy God, to walk in his ways, and to keep his commandments and his statutes and his judgments, that thou mayest live and multiply: and the LORD thy God shall bless thee in the land whither thou goest to possess it. Deu 30:17 But if thine heart turn away, so that thou wilt not hear, but shalt be drawn away, and worship other gods, and serve them; Deu 30:18 I denounce unto you this day, that ye shall surely perish, and that ye shall not prolong your days upon the land, whither thou passest over Jordan to go to possess it. Deu 30:19 I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live:
Deu 30:20 That thou mayest love the LORD thy God, and that thou mayest obey his voice, and that thou mayest cleave unto him: for he is thy life, and the length of thy days: that thou mayest dwell in the land which the LORD sware unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them.
the choice really is yours. Unless of course you have already rejected God inwardly, and kicked your conscious to the curb so many times that you have been given over to the delusion, even strong delusion, even to the point where you cant even know truth anymore. all so you will believe the lie. what i speak has a quick litmus test. right now are you inwardly with fear and trembling or are you inwardly like... whatever aint got no time for that?
and thats how you know. dont waste no time on the whatevers yet. once God takes away all his provision... then will they maybe be able to hear, willing to hear.
these are the days of the age of the strong delusion. they cant even attain the truth.
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Post by watchful on Apr 4, 2021 8:54:03 GMT -5
Under the new covenant we are no longer seeking to establish our own righteousness. Is it really a matter of choosing now, or is it a matter of simply yielding to the Holy Spirit and being washed in the water of the word. Jesus said we did not choose Him but He chose us. We are admonished to walk according to the new nature of Christ within us now, as slaves of righteousness, and to Him be the glory, not to us because we are "choosing" right. Prior to receiving the Lord we walked according to our old fallen nature, as slaves to that, captives of the devil to do his will. Do we really change ourselves or does God change us? Another question is if we are to reckon ourselves dead to our old man, do dead men exercise their will and make choices? We are to die to our own will....not my will but thy will be done. There are hearts that God hardens, do they really have free will if the Lord has hardened their hearts like Pharaoh?
Perhaps regarding the matter of free will, the truth is somewhere in the middle, so to speak. Polarizing arguments about whether we have free will or not are carnal arguments, not spiritual. That we will give account to God is true, and that we need to obey Him is true.....but since the bible doesn't address this concept of free will I wonder if we really don't need to go there either....it seems to me to be a "Greek" type of philosophical argument. Perhaps only He knows how free any individual's will really is at any given time in any given circumstance...and that's just another reason why He is the only righteous judge of any soul, because He is the only one who knows all things.
The strength of sin is the Law....I found that out myself when I got into a pickle about perfectionism....the more I tried to exercise my will the worse the bondage got and the more torment I had. Our will is not stronger than the devil...we are powerless against the devil by ourselves. The Lord showed me to stop condemning myself (because He was not condemning me) and rest in Him and He led me out of the bondage....I did not choose, I was unable to in that situation, that is the nature of bondages....thankfully because of some encouraging and gracious scriptures He led me to, I resolved to let it go, to keep my eyes above on Jesus no longer on myself and my puny and ineffective self-effort, or on my problem, and in this way He led me out.
The flesh profits nothing.....it is not by power, not by might, but by His Spirit....His way of escape is by His Spirit, not of ourselves by exercising our will. Law is weak through the flesh and carnal mind, the more we engage our mind and will on a problem the more we are entangled in the problem through the carnal mind which condemns us...knowledge of good and evil, it's the wrong tree. Don't focus on the problem through self condemnation, that gives the devil a foothold....don't entertain the temptation or the problem that way, look to Jesus and focus above on Him....and to Him be all thanks and all glory and praise....all strength, all power is His. His strength is perfected in our weakness. This is the new way of the Spirit which is life, not the old way of the letter which is a ministration of death.
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Post by Cletus on Apr 4, 2021 11:34:08 GMT -5
Under the new covenant we are no longer seeking to establish our own righteousness. Is it really a matter of choosing now, or is it a matter of simply yielding to the Holy Spirit and being washed in the water of the word. Jesus said we did not choose Him but He chose us. We are admonished to walk according to the new nature of Christ within us now, as slaves of righteousness, and to Him be the glory, not to us because we are "choosing" right. Prior to receiving the Lord we walked according to our old fallen nature, as slaves to that, captives of the devil to do his will. Do we really change ourselves or does God change us? Another question is if we are to reckon ourselves dead to our old man, do dead men exercise their will and make choices? We are to die to our own will....not my will but thy will be done. There are hearts that God hardens, do they really have free will if the Lord has hardened their hearts like Pharaoh? Perhaps regarding the matter of free will, the truth is somewhere in the middle, so to speak. Polarizing arguments about whether we have free will or not are carnal arguments, not spiritual. That we will give account to God is true, and that we need to obey Him is true.....but since the bible doesn't address this concept of free will I wonder if we really don't need to go there either....it seems to me to be a "Greek" type of philosophical argument. Perhaps only He knows how free any individual's will really is at any given time in any given circumstance...and that's just another reason why He is the only righteous judge of any soul, because He is the only one who knows all things. And are we not to die to our own free will anyhow? Not my will but thine be done. The strength of sin is the Law....I found that out myself when I got into a pickle about perfectionism....the more I tried to exercise my will the worse the bondage got and the more torment I had. Our will is not stronger than the devil...we are powerless against the devil by ourselves. The Lord showed me to stop condemning myself (because He was not condemning me) and rest in Him and He led me out of the bondage....I did not choose, I was unable to in that situation, that is the nature of bondages....thankfully because of some encouraging and gracious scriptures He led me to, I resolved to let it go, to keep my eyes above on Jesus no longer on myself and my puny and ineffective self-effort, or on my problem, and in this way He led me out. The flesh profits nothing.....it is not by power, not by might, but by His Spirit....His way of escape is by His Spirit, not of ourselves by exercising our will. Law is weak through the flesh and carnal mind, the more we engage our mind and will on a problem the more we are entangled in the problem through the carnal mind which condemns us...knowledge of good and evil, it's the wrong tree. Don't focus on the problem through self condemnation, that gives the devil a foothold....don't entertain the temptation or the problem that way, look to Jesus and focus above on Him....and to Him be all thanks and all glory and praise....all strength, all power is His. His strength is perfected in our weakness. This is the new way of the Spirit which is life, not the old way of the letter which is a ministration of death. its always been as simple as choosing, wheres that at in Joshua, chapter 20 something... choose this day whom ye will serve. thats OT and New.
under the new covenant i still do seek my own righteousness, much like those in Joshuas day had to choose and then follow after. I have a sinful nature and i do sin. sometimes even its like... why am i doing this? but by resisting, by shunning, by abandoning, and of course... by turning around... i can get back up and walk in my calling, higher and higher.
we still must put forth effort to obtain righteousness, some of what God challenges us with... "buy from Me Gold tried in the fire"... we do got to seek it out, put forth discipline, and we have to be very careful as one, just one act of sin can erupt like a volcano, and cause many unrighteous acts. and it can happen fast too, so fast hind sight says whoa... you done messed up multiple times. the enemy covers ground fast if you give him a foot hold.
when God sees that first our heart is right towards a thing... and we are chasing after righteousness... then He takes it away and we can walk much easier without all that "dead weight" slowing us down.
in fact God tells us to seek after righteousness. and those who hunger and thirsts, He calls them. we must still seek our own righteousness... but we must understand Jesus Christ is the source. we must learn how to ask, seek and knock. enlarging the borders of our garments and our phylacteries, and making our faces disfigured before man and praying loudly simply wont cut it. nope. our righteousness must exceed those pharisees.
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Post by watchful on Apr 4, 2021 13:00:49 GMT -5
Can anyone please tell me whether I've misunderstood what Davidsheep is saying. Is he saying the new testament scriptures were influenced by Greek liberalism at the time they were written? That's how it reads to me. Hope I'm misunderstanding.
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Post by frienduff on Apr 4, 2021 17:27:45 GMT -5
Can anyone please tell me whether I've misunderstood what Davidsheep is saying. Is he saying the new testament scriptures were influenced by Greek liberalism at the time they were written? That's how it reads to me. Hope I'm misunderstanding. z I sure hope that is not what he is implying dear sister .
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Post by watchful on Apr 5, 2021 7:08:38 GMT -5
The issue of whether we have free will or not, or how free we are, is deeper than we know....at best we only know in part anyhow. I used to think in those terms but now consider that it's a distracting debate involving the carnal mind, and unnecessarily polarizing and divisive when it's really besides the point since the bible doesn't raise the issue, and doesn't speak in those terms. Therefore we should not go beyond what is written. The devil likes to bait us into such arguments. Because this below is how the bible teaches us to approach things (I was only saying what the bible teaches in my post):
Rom 10:1-4 Brethren, my heart's desire and prayer to God for Israel is, that they might be saved. For I bear them record that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge. For they being ignorant of God's righteousness, and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God. For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth.
Gal 5:16-18 This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh. For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would. (You can't do the things that you will to do.) But if ye be led of the Spirit, ye are not under the law.
Rom 6:6-25 Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin. For he that is dead is freed from sin. Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him: Knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dieth no more; death hath no more dominion over him. For in that he died, he died unto sin once: but in that he liveth, he liveth unto God. Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord. Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof. Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God. For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace. What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? God forbid. Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness? But God be thanked, that ye were the servants of sin, but ye have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine which was delivered you. Being then made free from sin, ye became the servants of righteousness.
Rom 7:14-21 For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin. For that which I do I allow not: for what I would (will), that do I not; but what I hate, that do I. If then I do that which I would not (that which I will not to do) I consent unto the law that it is good. Now then it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me. For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not. For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do. (in other words the good that I will to do I do not, but the evil that I will not to do, that I do) Now if I do that I would not, (will not to do) it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me. I find then a law, that, when I would do good (will to do good), evil is present with me. (So Paul is clearly teaching that “choosing” with one’s will per se is NOT the way to go.) For I delight in the law of God after the inward man: But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members. O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death? I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind (the will) I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin.
Rom 8:1 There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.
For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh: That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit. For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. (carnal mind = choosing with the free will) Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be. (Therefore choosing with the carnal mind is not the way we are to go about this.) So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God. But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his. And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness. But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you. Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh. For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live. For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God. For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.
These scriptures are not teaching that we are to exercise our will and “choose”, on the contrary, they are teaching that way doesn’t work (unless the devil wants you to, because self-righteousness is his fruit as well).....but they are teaching that we are to submit/yield to the Holy Spirit. Live according to our new nature (HIS nature/spirit) in other words,not our own....He gave us HIS righteousness within that we should live by it, and no longer live by our old fallen nature. The bible is not teaching us to "choose", it is teaching us to submit/yield to His righteousness and spirit. So once again, let's consider this verse carefully:
Rom 10:1-4 Brethren, my heart's desire and prayer to God for Israel is, that they might be saved. For I bear them record that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge. For they being ignorant of God's righteousness, and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God. For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth.
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Post by frienduff on Apr 5, 2021 8:32:07 GMT -5
Yes , its clear to see that the apostles were led of the Spirit . It was the Spirit at work in them to unction others to be doers of His word . Its always a good thing to be reminded to be doing the things of the Lord . To be exhorting one another and stirring one another up on the things of GOD . Let us continue to remind one another of the things that are written for our admonition . For the Spirit works through the lambs to stir one another up with reminders . And to always behold the goodness and severity of God .
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Post by davidsheep88 on Apr 7, 2021 12:46:14 GMT -5
saying that time and generation of jesus the world was influence by romans and romans copied from greek god and thoughts. Greek philosophy was copied and heavy influence us all, we are all taught by the cathloic church. And it has given rise to this modern world and doctrination we have of freewill and concepts of rights ! We have choice and it is based on good and evil.
When Elijah made the mistake to change God's decree and sentence Jezabels whole family when it was only her, he changed destiny and God was angry at him but forgace him. Yet he change the course of istory God gives us freewill. To change our life and predestanation is something that exist but our true path with God is to be in heaven how we get there is still A challenge.
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Post by watchful on Apr 9, 2021 7:12:45 GMT -5
saying that time and generation of jesus the world was influence by romans and romans copied from greek god and thoughts. Greek philosophy was copied and heavy influence us all, we are all taught by the cathloic church. And it has given rise to this modern world and doctrination we have of freewill and concepts of rights ! We have choice and it is based on good and evil. When Elijah made the mistake to change God's decree and sentence Jezabels whole family when it was only her, he changed destiny and God was angry at him but forgace him. Yet he change the course of istory God gives us freewill. To change our life and predestanation is something that exist but our true path with God is to be in heaven how we get there is still A challenge. Thanks for coming back to explain. My apologies, but still not sure if I'm quite understanding your point or not, my reading comprehension is not as good as it used to be as I get older, I'm finding it harder to follow posts than in the past. But I believe the bible teaches that we all need to have our minds renewed, no matter what influence or tradition we have been under...whether Hebrew, Greek, Asian, Amazonian or Martian (ha-ha). I agree our society has gone the Greek route of logic and science and philosophy, though influenced also by Christianity too for a time. If we make mistakes in our life and disobey the Lord or do wrong, i agree it can change the path and course we are on, we will suffer for it and it can affect others around us too, altering their path, so think we agree on that. Nevertheless there is hope as well, mistakes can be not only forgiven but redeemed, when there is repentance, because God foreknew everything a child of God would do in advance and has gone before us, preparing the way. In everything we are to give thanks for THIS is the will of God for us, whatever our circumstances happen to be. He is working everything together for our spiritual good, leading us on our pilgrimage through this life (as strangers passing through) to heaven. He is sovereign and ruling over and above everything that happens on this earth.
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Post by frienduff on Apr 9, 2021 8:06:02 GMT -5
I find peace in just knowing that Jesus is our savoir . That to believe in HIM , faith in Him is all we need . And its by grace . The simple things in Christ . The love of Christ shed on our hearts by grace . Let us be faithful unto God and have great hope in Him . To be daily reading the scriptures , all remminders which are for our own good . From every warning to every promise . Let us heed Our Lord who has saved us and is able to keep us from falling . You all are loved and may we grow in the grace of God which brings salvation in Christ . The reminders in scripture , in the gospels , in the letters from the apostels are good for us . Let us behold both the severity of God and His goodnesss . Everything recorded is for our good and works good to all who do heed it .
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