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10/28/08 2:47 PM |
rogerant | | Saskatoon Canada | | | | | |
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Mercy wrote: "The one who says, "I have come to know Him," and does not keep His commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him; but whoever keeps His word, in him the love of God has truly been perfected. By this we know that we are in Him; the one who says he abides in Him ought himself to walk in the same manner as He walked." 1 John 2:3-6 What would be your interpretation of "does not KEEP His commandments"We as Christians keep, or hold steadfast his commandments. We hold them dear to our hearts, we believe they are truth, that they are good for us and they are Holy. But practically we don't keep (obey) them. We fail every day. WCF Chapter 13 v2. This sanctification is throughout in the whole man, yet imperfect in this life; there abideth still some remnants of corruption in every part, whence ariseth a continual and irreconcilable war, the flesh lusting against the spirit, and the spirit against the flesh. |
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10/27/08 2:02 PM |
rogerant | | Saskatoon Canada | | | | | |
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Mercy wrote: RA, Would you not agree that a sinner comes under conviction - struggles with sin - BEFORE he is converted? Could this not be the struggle that Paul is describing? Romans 7:24 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 I MYSELF SERVE THE LAW OF GOD; BUT WITH THE FLESH THE LAW OF SIN"Are you trying to tell me that in Paul's MIND, in his unregenerate state, served the law of God? But in the FLESH, the law of sin? This is Gnostic teaching. The idea that the mind was not corrupted by sin, but that the flesh was corrupt. The mind of an unbeliever is evil, hostile to the law of God. 23 But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind. The carnal mind is not warring against it's members. They are in total unity. I am sorry, but your view of total depravity is weak, and gnostic. |
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10/24/08 9:30 AM |
rogerant | | Saskatoon Canada | | | | | |
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DJC49 wrote: [Please note that I did NOT say "THINGS", but rather OT PROPHECIES] Wonderful, WOMI! If you are correct and OT prophecies are NOT vague and ambiguous and are as clear as a bell, Numbers 11:6 And he said , Hear now my words: If there be a prophet among you, I the LORD will make myself known unto him in a vision, and will speak unto him in a dream. My servant Moses is not so, who is faithful in all mine house. With him will I speak mouth to mouth, even apparently, and not in dark speeches; and the similitude of the LORD shall he behold : |
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10/22/08 7:08 PM |
rogerant | | Saskatoon Canada | | | | | |
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Mike wrote: Rogerant, You have more understanding of conservative and liberal in the American context, than many Americans do. Thank you Mike! I used to live in Oregon and California. I believe that the American Constitution is the best man made Consititution in the world. |
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10/21/08 1:46 PM |
rogerant | | Saskatoon Canada | | | | | |
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Mike wrote: Indeed, There is Hope. And yet was it not required that the Israelites believe/obey what Moses relayed to the elders, to paint the doorposts with the blood, that the destroyer would pass over them? Israel was chosen, but they still had to do something, obey. They had to "come under" the blood to be saved. So are you saying that even though Abraham was chosen, he still had to do something to be saved (ie. circumcise) himself?Romans 4:9 Cometh this blessedness then upon the circumcision only, or upon the uncircumcision also? for we say that faith was reckoned to Abraham for righteousness. How was it then reckoned? when he was in circumcision, or in uncircumcision? Not in circumcision, but in uncircumcision. And he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had yet being uncircumcised: that he might be the father of all them that believe, though they be not circumcised; that righteousness might be imputed unto them also: |
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10/21/08 10:01 AM |
rogerant | | Saskatoon Canada | | | | | |
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more on Chapter 15:3. Although repentance be not to be rested in as any satisfaction for sin, or any cause of the pardon thereof, which is the act of God's free grace in Christ; yet is it of such necessity to all sinners that none may expect pardon without it. 4. As there is no sin so small but it deserves damnation, so there is no sin so great that it can bring damnation upon those who truly repent. 5. Men ought not to content themselves with a general repentance, but it is every man's duty to endeavor to repent of his particular sins particularly. 6. As every man is bound to make private confession of his sins to God, praying for the pardon thereof,upon which, and the forsaking of them, he shall find mercy; so he that scandalizeth his brother, or the Church of Christ, ought to be willing, by a private or public confession and sorrow for his sin, to declare his repentance to those that are offended, who are thereupon to be reconciled to him, and in love to receive him. |
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10/21/08 8:47 AM |
rogerant | | Saskatoon Canada | | | | | |
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Michael Hranek wrote: this is true although a Biblical Fundamentalist may express it in different words. Nice try Mike. You are trying to wiggle out of this one rather than admit that you are wrong. You should run for political office.No, you are not allowed to express it in UN-biblical Fundie words. It says what it says. That God PASSED over the non-elect. With your line of reasoning we would have to say that God made it impossible for the world to call on Him that had never heard the Gospel. God was not actively making it impossible for anyone. But man was actively rejecting God's common grace. And as for preaching the gospel to the world, read chapter 15. 1. Repentance unto life is an evangelical grace, the doctrine whereof is to be preached by every minister of the gospel, as well as that of faith in Christ. 2. By it a sinner, out of the sight and sense, not only of the danger, but also of the filthiness and odiousness of his sins, as contrary to the holy nature and righteous law of God, and upon the apprehension of his mercy in Christ to such as are penitent, so grieves for and hates his sins as to turn from them all unto God, purposing and endeavoring to walk with him in all the ways of his commandments. |
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10/21/08 5:41 AM |
rogerant | | Saskatoon, Canada | | | | | |
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Michael Hranek wrote: No, you are misrepresenting the Calvinistic/Reformed possition expressed in the WCF that God makes it impossible for the non-elect to come to Him and be saved because He so choose to hate them He sovereignly ensures their damnation in the day of judgment. Here Michael, I will post it because you refuse.Chapter 3:7. The rest of mankind God was pleased, according to the unsearchable counsel of his own will, whereby he extendeth or withholdeth mercy as he pleaseth, for the glory of his sovereign power over his creatures, to PASS BY, and to ordain them to dishonor and wrath for their sin, to the praise of his glorious justice. Mat 11:25-26; Rom 9:17-18, 21-22; 2 Tim 2:19-20; 1 Pet 2:8; Jude 1:4. There does not appear to be anything here that says that God makes it impossible to come to Him. It says that He allows them to PASS BY. But I know you won't admit that you are wrong, because you are a dishonest man. How does your God throw sinners into hell when they have never heard the gospel? Does He not have the power to share it with them? Does He choose not to share it with them? |
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10/20/08 7:03 PM |
rogerant | | Saskatoon Canada | | | | | |
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1 Cor 2:4 And my speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of man's wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power: That your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God. But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him… But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God. Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God. Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual. But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned…4:7 FOR WHO MAKETH THEE TO DIFFER FROM ANOTHER? AND WHAT HAS THOU THAT THOW DIDST NOT RECEIVE? NOW IF THOU DIDST RECEIVE IT, WHY DOST THOU GLORY, AS AS IF THOU HADST NOT RECEIVED IT?These passages are all written in the passive tense. But you can glory, because you have chosen to believe, not received in faith. |
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