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God is bound to His Word! He would be a liar if He didn't. God cannot change what is written in His Word, and we know exactly how man is made righteous, every single one of us.

So that's how God makes His robots?

You can read that in, the Calvinists do it all the time! I see it as it's written, Abraham chose to believe God.

No man can be righteous until He believes God. Remember how Abraham became righteous? "And he (Abraham) believed God and it was counted to him for righteousness."

Yes He did, and we've all been depraved and separated from God until He sent the Gospel to us and gave us truth. The only good that can be done in this world, by God's standard, is to believe in His Son's finished work and be led by the Spirit in good works.

God said, if a righteous man turns from his righteousness he will die in his sins. Take it for what you see, that's what I'm doing.

Ok, if that's the way you see it, but I disagree.

Heb. 3:14 "For we are made partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence stedfast unto the end;" Was the "beginning of your confidence" the same as mine being Faith in Christ?

Well I guess we disagree. Ezekiel gave the words of God that if a righteous man turns from his righteousness/faith he will die in his sins. It's very clear for me but obviously not so clear for some others.

The context determines the type of death, physical vs spiritual. What happens when you "die in your sins" as Ezekiel said through God?

Yes, I've heard countless preachers say that. I've always taken it as the detail Christ gives to the horrors of Hell far outweigh the details He gave of heaven. I see Him actually mentioning heaven more often, but not in the detail He gives of Hell.

Whether OT or NT man is saved by grace through faith, so when a righteous man turns from his righteousness he is turning from his faith that made him righteous. Die here in these verses is a spiritual death, eternal separation from God.

The sow that was washed back to her wallowing in the mire? How about this? Ezek. 18:21-24 But if the wicked will turn from all his sins that he hath committed, and keep all my statutes, and do that which is lawful and right, he shall surely live, he shall not die. All his transgressions...

No man can pluck us out of His hands, but we most certainly can pluck ourselves out of His hands.

How do you see this? 2 Peter 2:20-22 "For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning. For it had been better for them...

Hey, you can't give that spot to Scarlett, you've already given it to me!

LOL, you can't get enough of it, can you? Already proven the point I wanted to make. Us arguing as we have been doing for months will accomplish nothing.

Let's let Christ make that determination, we have no authority over the Scripture to convince anyone of anything.

I look forward to the day when we will all be in one accord.

Any good works that i may have are not mine in reality, they belong to the One who planned, organized, and gave me the privilege to do something in the name of my Christ. He, God the Holy Spirit is One who makes my good works possible through faith.