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Are you a false teacher who uses falsehood to defend false doctrine. Are you are so feeble mined you need to hurl false insults at others. What do the lexicons say as to the meaning of the Greek preposition "dia" whose instrumentality meaning is "by means of" or "by reason of" or "because of."

Dia Meaning in Bible - New Testament Greek Lexicon - New American Standard

 

All of them!!!!

Note that the liberal Calvinists claim the meaning of dia in Ephesians 2:8 is not "by reason of." I kid you not...

 

Note the endless question ploy allowed to disrupt biblical discussion? I have already posted a link to one of them.

 

What do the lexicons say as to the meaning of the Greek preposition "dia" whose instrumentality meaning is "by means of" or "by reason of" or "because of."

Dia Meaning in Bible - New Testament Greek Lexicon - New American Standard

 

Liberals attack truth by redefining the meaning of words. Many times in scripture the statement is made that salvation is "through faith." Often the Greek preposition "dia" which means "by means of" or "by reason of" when used to indicate instrumentality, is nullified by liberal rather than literal interpretation.

If individuals were chosen for salvation unconditionally, then salvation would not be "through faith."

Thus when you see "through faith" (or by faith) the liberals claim the meaning is by reason of the gifted and instilled faith due to election before creation via irresistible grace.

However that gross addition to scripture, based purely on the speculation of people, is not how scripture actually reads.

And this repeated rewriting of scripture violates at least two Baptist distinctives, in that the view does not adhere to a literal interpretation, and that individual soul liberty to believe or not in Christ is denied.

Here are some of the verses that liberals rewrite via interpretation:
Romans 3:25
Galatians 3:14
Galatians 3:26
Ephesians 2:8
Ephesians 3:12
Colossians 2:12
2 Timothy 3:15

In these verses the preposition (dia) is used to refer to the means or instrument by which the action is effected, thus in Romans 3:25, Christ is displayed as the means of reconciliation through faith. If a person's faith is not credited by God as righteousness, God will not utilize Christ as the means of their reconciliation. So simple a child can understand it.

 

So the meaning of the words "through faith" is that our faith if credited by God, provides our access to God's saving grace. To claim we receive that grace, not through our credited faith, is wholesale rejection of God's word.