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What were you implying here?:

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Faith is not in the context of Mt 7:21. The context is false prophets, wolves in sheep's clothing, bad trees and bad fruit. Of course, He never knew them.

All the soils 'heard', and that means something. I think all the soils mentioned could belong to the Lord.

 

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I have always thought God the Father credits, the faith OF Christ, as my righteousness.

for him who did not know sin, in our behalf He did make sin, that we may become the righteousness of God in him.

 

I know that this is all about your obsession to stamp out Calvinism from the face of the Earth by finding that final devastating blow from the Bible, but this ain't it.

How do you present the gospel to someone? What do you tell them? Do you include your 'if'' in your formula? What modifications are made to include your 'if'?:

Bible:
31 And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus, and thou shalt be saved, thou and thy house. Acts 16

Vanology:
31 And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus, and thou might get saved, thou and thy house. Acts 16

 

Bible:
9 because if thou shalt confess with thy mouth Jesus as Lord, and shalt believe in thy heart that God raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved: Ro 10

Vanology:
9 because if thou shalt confess with thy mouth Jesus as Lord, and shalt believe in thy heart that God raised him from the dead, thou might get saved: Ro 10

 

Really? You give your own rewrite of Bible verses quite often. People have shown you your error in translation and you reject them, even though some of them teach Greek at university.

Where? Often, you change the subject.

The actual gospel is that Jesus is the way, the truth, and the life. No one can come to the Father, except through Christ Jesus.
Your reference is not in regard to the gospel. It is in regard to fulfilling the law.

And he said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the great and first commandment. And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. On these two commandments depend all the Law and the Prophets.”
(Matthew 22:37-40)

We agree.
God chooses to save whomever He wills at whatever time He wills. Man's faith, before salvation, plays no part in God's election of whom He saves. Election is before the foundation of the world, not based on the quality of one's faith. We believe because God has chosen to save us by grace alone. (Ephesians 2:1-9)

 

You misinterpret 2 Thessalonians 2:13 and remove grace from salvation.

But we ought always to give thanks to God for you, brothers beloved by the Lord, because God chose you as the first fruits to be saved, through sanctification by the Spirit and belief in the truth. To this he called you through our gospel, so that you may obtain the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.
(2 Thessalonians 2:13-14)

God chose first.

The phrase "through sanctification (setting apart) by the Spirit and belief in the truth" shows us that God chooses first, he sets us apart, and He causes us to believe in the truth.
This is what God called you to.

Your imagined condition makes your gospel graceless. It is your teaching that is in err, Van.

 

That is certainly your version of what it says. However, no one else, in any commentary I have ever read, has that interpretation. Would you care to explain why no Christian in over 2000 years shares your opinion?

Salvation by Grace causes faith through which we believe and persevere.

 

Your right. That's why I don't need your comment. I read the verse on my own. Then I read others and I find that no one agrees with you.
So, if you have no one who agrees with you that is a red flag for your interpretation.

But we ought always to give thanks to God for you, brothers beloved by the Lord, because God chose you as the first fruits to be saved, through sanctification by the Spirit and belief in the truth. To this he called you through our gospel, so that you may obtain the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.
(2 Thessalonians 2:13-14)
I read it over and over again and it doesn't read according to your interpretation.

 

Your arguments are, indeed, fallacious. I am glad you can recognize this.

Until you can document others in the Christian community holding your views, your arguments will be fallacious.
Red flag.

 

Read what I actually wrote and then read what you creatively interpreted.
When no one agrees with you and there is over 2000 years where no one agrees with you, it HAS to be a red flag.

You have no one agreeing with you, for the past 2000 years plus. Doesn't that mean anything to you?

Does 2 Peter 2:1 Deny Effectual Atonement?

Van, you can believe whatever you want. Just don't think everyone else is wrong when everyone else disagrees with you.

 

@taisto

2 Peter 2:1, ". . . But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction. . . ."

Primary cross reference.

Jude 1:4, ". . . For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ. . . ."