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It's not about salvation, it's about justice being served on God's word. God has always loved and saved Israel from extinction, and He will fulfill His promise in gathering all who caused harm to Israel and serving justice. Joel 3:2 "I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down...

You have probably heard the old saying, "we are saved, we are going to be saved, and we will be saved. Those are the 3 stages of our sanctification. We are saved by grace through faith and have a position in Christ. We are being conformed in the image of Christ our entire lives on this...

What Paul did mention is "from the beginning God has chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit." Paul is not discussing who God has picked to be saved, but the manner in which believing man will be saved. He has from the beginning chosen man to a certain way of salvation...

I see this a different way, Van. Christ is dividing nations at His Second Coming not individuals, on something they didn't do for Him. Based on what had just happened at His Second Coming, He has just destroyed the Anti-Christ and his armies of many nations joined to together to destroy...

That was quite an insight at that time. He wouldn't be surprised at all with the worlds present situation with Islam.

Isaiah 14:1-2 "For the Lord will have mercy on Jacob, and will yet choose Israel, and set them in their own land: and the strangers shall be joined with them, and they shall cleave to the house of Jacob. And the people shall take them, and bring them to their place: and the house of Israel...

The Kingdom was offered to Israel at His first coming, but it was not meant to be. He came only to Israel for this offer and Israel was to be a Light unto the Gentiles through Christ. "God will yet choose Israel" the first offer was made that the prophecy may be fulfilled in the future.

No man can come to Christ except the Father draws him. That's how He does it. That's when He's near and you can call on Him for mercy. Isa. 55:6-7 "Seek ye the Lord while he may be found, call ye upon him while he is near: Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his...

Have you ever been talking to someone about the Word of God, reading it, listening to a sermon, or certain Scripture verses come to mind and you realize you are the reason Christ was nailed on that Cross, or you realize you are separated from God? That's the Holy Spirit breaking through your...

I'll have to muster up the Merry part, but thanks, same for you.

Ok

Well actually I never wanted to be in a conversation that has no worthwhile conclusion. That's why I never wanted to mention Christ at 40 days old living in Nazareth.

If they found Him in a playhouse behind the Temple what difference would It make to us?

What are the cons of Nazareth to Egypt? Considering He lived in Nazareth within a few weeks after His birth in Bethlehem. There is no reason to believe He was anywhere else when they found Him some 18-22 months later.

There are pros and cons either way, no way of knowing for sure.

I have to disagree, but let me explain is a short summary. I do believe a book could easily be written on this topic. Before the foundation of the world, before man was created, the Triune God knew Adam would fall in sin being given free will to choose his way. So before man did this and...

Herod sent them to Bethlehem not having a clue. When they left Herod they seen the star in the east and followed it until it came to where Christ was. Where did the star take them?

The accounts of Matthew and Luke do not cover everything in one account and must be taken in mind of the time frame they are speaking in. What I have shown is not proof that the wise men found Christ in Nazareth, take from it what you will.

Let me explain what I didn't want to get into from the very beginning of this. But now I have no choice it seems. I do not believe the traditional account of Christ being in a house in Bethlehem when the wise men found Him. The Law of Moses required a young Jewish boy to be presented before...

BF, if go Calvin's way with "all men" it doesn't mean all men as in each individual person in humanity, he interpreted it as "all kinds of men" limiting it to the elect. Of course he had to do that because he interpreted predestination in the wrong way from Rom. 8 and Eph. 1. How do you see...