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BARNABAS. A. D. 70.

BARNABAS in his Epistle has a passage which sets forth the corruption and weakness of the heart of man before the grace of God is implanted, insomuch that it stands in need of being rebuilt, new made, and created again;

it runs thus: “How shall the temple be built in the name of the Lord?

Learn; before we believed in God, the habitation of our heart was phtharton kai asthenes, ‘corrupt and weak,’ as a temple truly built with hands;

because it was a house full of idolatry, and idolatry was the house of devils, by doing what was contrary to God.

It shall be built in the name of the Lord. Attend, that the temple of the Lord may be built glorious. How?

Learn; receiving the remission of sins, and hoping in the name of the Lord, we become new, being created again, as at the beginning.”

 

You Must Be Born Again.

That is what Barnabus says.

Jesus Said that, too.

There is a REASON the soul of man MUST BE RE-CREATED, RE-GENERATED, MADE ALIVE.

IT IS BECAUSE IT IS DEAD, AS BARNABUS SAID, in A.D. 70.

Learn; "...receiving the remission of sins, and hoping in the name of the Lord, we become new, being created again, as at the beginning.”

 

"being created again"

BARNABAS in his Epistle has a passage which sets forth the corruption and weakness of the heart of man before the grace of God is implanted, insomuch that it stands in need of being rebuilt, new made, and created again;

"being created again"

The lost sinner Must BE Born Again.

The Un-Re-Created soul is lost and hopeless.

That Un-Re-Created soul that is lost and hopeless must be convicted that their soul is Un-Re-Created, lost, and hopeless, or they have nothing to Repent of.

 

Lost souls must be lost before they can be Saved.

 

Absolutely.

The Human soul can not respond to The Moral Admonitions of God, unless the primary moral convictions of man coincide with Conscience and Moral Judgment within The Divine Mind.

The Infinite Mind could be Apprehended by the finite, if the finite were sinless and immutable.

The Elect Angels are finite, because they were Created and have a beginning.

They are Immortal, because God Chose for them to be.

They remain in a sinless and immutable existence.

If they were able to change and decided to disobey God, they would Fall Forever, as Adam did.

The Fallen, lost Adam, can no longer Apprehend GOD, Who is SPIRIT, because his primary moral convictions are now without God, sinful, Spiritually Dead and Helpless.

Adam and his offspring no longer can coincide with Conscience and Moral Judgment within The Divine Mind, because their primary moral convictions are......

......NOT Perfect and Holy.

"Lost souls must be lost before they can be Saved". ABSOLUTELY.

"...saved souls must be saved before they can be saved". ABSOLUTELY.

That is God's Message Contained in The Bible and NOT man's ideas developed from The Words of God, using their lack of Perfection and Holiness.

When BARNABAS wrote, in A. D. 70,

"Learn; receiving the remission of sins, and hoping in the name of the Lord, we become new, being created again, as at the beginning.”

He wasn't saying that you put your socks over your shoes when one refers to "Putting their Shoes and Socks on".

The chronological placement of the words in the sentence do not govern the content.

If I, "turn on the light bulb, by flicking the switch", did the light bulb come on first?

The same is with Salvation.

I can 'say', "I chose, believed, prayed, had faith", etc., etc., but unless God took the Dead Light Bulb, of my Adamic Nature, and HE, GOD, Flicks the Switch; their will be no Salvation.

There has been no "Re-Generation", as Barnabas mentioned.

"hoping in the name of the Lord, we become new, being created again, as at the beginning.”

The Wonder Working Power of The Balm of Gilead Must Turn DARKNESS to LIGHT and Make the blind to See.

 

Turn all that around, where it can do some good.

Barnabas is one of dozens in the first few Centuries that are recorded as believing Jesus Christ, and all the Old Testament and New Testament saints, regarding Total Depravity.

Total Depravity is Taught from Genesis to Revelation, in almost every Chapter.

Calvin didn't write The Bible.

God Did.

Adam died the Day he ate of The Tree of Knowledge.

The 'Progressives', in the news, HAVE MISSED A FINE CHANCE to 'EVOLVE', because they are liars, thieves, rapists, and murderers.

They were born that way and have not been reborn.

They did not BECOME liars, thieves, rapists, and murderers, by their actions.

They have lied, stolen, raped, and murdered BECAUSE THEY ARE: liars, thieves, rapists, and murderers, IN THEIR NATURAL ESTATE, as SPIRITUALLY DEAD, LOST SOULS.


Typical, naturally born, children of Adam, born,
as Seth was; in THE IMAGE of ADAM.

"And Adam lived one hundred and thirty years, and begot a son in his own likeness, after his image, and named him Seth." Genesis 5:3

 

Salvation is by WORKS.

The Eternal Plan and WORKS Accomplished by Jesus Christ.

The Work of Jesus Christ in The Accomplishment of His Obedience in The ONE Eternal Covenant of Grace, by His Virgin Birth, Perfect Life, Death, Burial, and Resurrection,

...is ADMINISTERED to the soul of the lost individual, by The Instrumentality of The Eternal Word of God, Made Effectual, by The Holy Spirit of God.

Post #62, by iconoclast, in
The Covenant of Redemption post
with my re-emphasis on The Word and The Spirit's Instrumentality in the Salvation of the Predestinated, Elect.

1thess.;
4 Knowing, brethren beloved, your election of God.

5 For our gospel came not unto you in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Ghost, and in much assurance; as ye know what manner of men we were among you for your sake.

6 And ye became followers of us, and of the Lord, having received the word in much affliction, with joy of the Holy Ghost.

2thess;
12 That ye would walk worthy of God, who hath called you unto his kingdom and glory.
13 For this cause also thank we God without ceasing,
because, when ye received the word of God which ye heard of us,
ye received it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, the word of God,

which effectually worketh also in you that believe.
...

Do the board members know of The Word and The Spirit's Instrumentality in the Salvation of the Predestinated, Elect?

...

Romans 4:10 b,c;
"and how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard?"

(=THE ETERNAL WORD of GOD, that Could BE USED by The HOLY SPIRIT to CONVICT their soul of their sins AND POINT THEM TO THE ETERNAL WORK of SALVATION, by JESUS CHRIST, THE SAVIOR)

"and how shall they hear"

(=THE ETERNAL WORD of GOD, that Could BE USED by The HOLY SPIRIT to CONVICT their soul of their sins AND POINT THEM TO THE ETERNAL WORK of SALVATION, by JESUS CHRIST, THE SAVIOR)

"without a preacher?"

One of those preachers, WHO PREACHED THE ETERNAL WORD of GOD, that Could BE USED by The HOLY SPIRIT to CONVICT their soul of their sins AND POINT THEM TO THE ETERNAL WORK of SALVATION, by JESUS CHRIST, THE SAVIOR, as you quoted, was Barnabas, in A.D. 70.

 

What the flesh ever.

 

"Of His Own Will Begat He us with The Word of Truth..." James 1:18a

The Spirit of God is a Component of Calvinism and The Bible.

You have come across the principal determinant of the alleged 'debate', between the flesh ("Free Will" that is free to fly across The Atlantic, but FALLS SHORT of that AND THE GLORY of GOD) and The Spirit ( "Of His Own Will").

The flesh profits nothing.

There is no 'debate'.