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Greetings Zaatar. I hope you are having a blessing Tuesday. We know that God tests the hearts of men through experience (Prov 17:3) and through experience he tries them as silver is tried (Psa 66:10). Not that He might know the will of a man’s heart, for the Spirit already “searches all...

Silverhair. Blessings and thanks for you as God's vessel. Not stepping on toes at all. Thank you for the corrections and adjustments. Besides, it saves me the corrections latter. :) I think this is a good expansion for clarity. Thanks for the correction. Again, thank you for the...

Greetings Dave G. Peace, grace, and hope to you this day. Along with the Calvinistic doctrine of unconditional election, most all Calvinist theologians through history have affirmed that God's offer of salvation in the gospel is real and true for everyone. In other words, it is a bona fide...

Greetings to all on this blessed Tuesday. May the grace and hope of our Lord do a great work in you all. It would seem that Silverhair is going the direction I intended (thanks for the verses). Before I start here, I would like to put a disclaimer that my current analysis of Romans 14:9 is a...

Greetings to you Aaron and grace and hope to you and yours. Thank you for your insights and wisdom on this matter. In regard to your statement above. I think that you are accurate except for the added part at the end. There is no explicit nor implicit verse that tells us that the High Priest...

Greetings Jon, Thank you for your time and wisdom on this matter. I like your quote above. Ok, capable but not willing. As in, the spiritual desires were absent and the fleshly desires were dominant. I agree, God does not lie. When He says in the Holy Scriptures that God will be the...

Greetings Silverhair and happy Monday to you and your family. Thank you for your wisdom and contribution. I had asked... You replied with some verses, but particularly this one... I want to focus on two parts of the verse: (A) "reconciled to God", and (B) "having been reconciled". The...

Greetings Silverhair. Two questions. 1. Do you hold to a type of total depravity in which God must make the first move? 2. If you believe in some form of #1. What did Christ's work do to make it possible that the offer of salvation was a bona fide offer? If you don't hold to a type of #1...

Greetings again Jon. So what would you say that the IDR (incarnation, death, resurrection) did to make mankind capable of being able to "accept" or " reject"? Or do you think mankind already had this capacity in their fallen state? Peace to you brother

Greetings... ugh.. 378...18? lol. Ok. The offer is bona fide is the offer is genuine. I take that to mean sincere and actually contains what is being offered. Peace to you

Greetings Alan. May the grace and hope of God abound in your life. I intend to mean the gospel offer of salvation to all (not universalism and not contradictory to particular election). Calvinist theologians affirm a "sincere and universal offer of the gospel" and at the same time maintain...

Greetings Wesley. Thank you for your contribution of wisdom to the OP. Then Wesley replied... This I agree with. In general and in many specific situations. Let's start though, for the sake of the OP, with the understanding that all mankind (emphasis on all) are slaves to sin and death (Rom...

Expanding upon the OP and point #1. Within the biblical text, the Devil is associated with the consequences of sin. For he was “a murderer from the beginning” (John 8:44) and there is “no truth in him” for “he is a liar and the father of it” (Heb 8:44). The Devil, in his rebellion, uses the...

Yes. (I like your presentation btw). For continued musing....it seems to me that we are not suggesting that all believers in the body of Christ are like High Priests (or ordained Preachers). It is not this kind of comparison that we speak of. The comparison might be more like how the House...

This is a tough question Layman. To be transparent, I'll have to meditate, pray and study to find the wisdom to this question. Going on my first blush response. If this verse is intended to mean 'all men' when it says "God and men" (as you have interpreted it to intended through your...

Greetings Wesley. Peace and hope to you my brother. In response to my post with multiple points, you only gave a verse. I am left to my own flawed intellect trying to connect your wisdom you wished to give me. So a couple of questions... a. Is the verse you gave me in reference to my...

Thank you Brightfame. If all Jews are not Saints... then why was God's law that the High Priest make a sacrifice for all Jews on the Day of Atonement? (Lev 16:21-22, Heb 9:7), also known as Yom Kippur). It doesn't say, make sacrifice for only those Jews of the promise. I don't think there is...

I was contemplating what would make a bona fide offer to the unbelieving. What do you think? 1. One must not be under some other dominion, power, or influence (power and dominion). If the one that offers says, "come and be free with me in my kingdom". But the one being offered is chained in...

Greetings again Brightfame. I see what you are saying, I think. However, I don't know what you think about what I said. Specifically, what I said about not all Jews are of the promise (Romans 9:7-8). Do you believe that all Jews are Saints? The High Priest was making a sacrifice for sin...

Greetings Layman. Hope and peace to you and yours. Do you think that the OT illustrations are symbols and shadows of the whole world? Because not all the children of the flesh are also the children of the promise. Keep seeking God's truth