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Reformed Salvation

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SavedByGrace

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So are you saying that faith = repentance? I.e. that the repentance is a change of heart from unbelief to belief, apart from doing any good works? Just trying to understand you.

Repentance is saying sorry for your personal sins to the Lord, and faith is trusting Jesus as Saviour and Lord
 

Silverhair

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If you had created you, your friend, and the victim and they all lived moment by moment only because you allowed them to, and if you could foresee and change a host of things at any time to prevent it then yes - you did ordain it in the way the reformers meant it. You did not directly cause it but that is not what they said. Some people try to have a coherent theology but you don't so in a way you have an advantage. The only way to truly vindicate God in the way you set things up is to say he didn't know what was going to happen. You will just deny that and you can because you sling random ideas around while claiming some higher knowledge. You are proving the need for some type of systemic theology, some kind of organized teaching, and you are showing the dangers of private interpretation.

I agree we need some kind of organized teaching, which we do have. It is called the bible. Now all we have to do is get people to trust it rather that trust what some men tell them that it means.
 

DaveXR650

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What you are saying not biblical. Foreknowledge is not the same as Foreordaining. There is a HUGE difference

Again. Foreknowledge is knowing something will happen in the future. For you and me, it is actually impossible but to the extent it is - it's based on probability. Foreknowledge that God would have is 100% sure because he makes it so or allows it to happen. If he makes it so then he caused it, if he allows it to happen then he at least ordains it - because he could have stopped it if he wanted. It may be flawed, but it is logical and it is what the reformers meant when they said ordained.
 

The Archangel

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Repentance is saying sorry for your personal sins to the Lord

False. Louw and Nida is helpful here: μετανοέω (Repentance) to change one’s way of life as the result of a complete change of thought and attitude with regard to sin and righteousness—‘to repent, to change one’s way, repentance.’

Johannes P. Louw and Eugene Albert Nida, Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament: Based on Semantic Domains (New York: United Bible Societies, 1996), 509.

That's a whole lot more than saying "sorry."

The Archangel
 

SavedByGrace

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False. Louw and Nida is helpful here: μετανοέω (Repentance) to change one’s way of life as the result of a complete change of thought and attitude with regard to sin and righteousness—‘to repent, to change one’s way, repentance.’

Johannes P. Louw and Eugene Albert Nida, Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament: Based on Semantic Domains (New York: United Bible Societies, 1996), 509.

That's a whole lot more than saying "sorry."

The Archangel

I gave the basic meaning which is not wrong
 

The Archangel

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Wrong again! I am pointing out, that the English word "regeneration" in Titus 3:5, literally means "born-again". Paul here speaks of being "saved" the same as being "born-again".

I don't know where you get me saying, ""regeneration" is something that is done by us?

You're the one arguing that saved = born again. You've argued that we need to
I gave the basic meaning which is not wrong

No. it is wrong. Repentance does not mean "saying you're sorry."

The Archangel
 

The Archangel

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Wrong again! I am pointing out, that the English word "regeneration" in Titus 3:5, literally means "born-again". Paul here speaks of being "saved" the same as being "born-again".

I don't know where you get me saying, ""regeneration" is something that is done by us?

You're the one arguing that saved = born again. If being born again is the same as getting saved, and you believe we act first in salvation (which it is abundantly clear that you do), and if John 3 speaks of born-again in the passive voice (which it does), then "born again" is not something you can do for yourself. Because in Greek the passive means the subject is being acted upon, not doing the action.

The Archangel
 
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