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You don't seem to have understood my question. If Jesus is talking about eternal salvation in Luke 13:24, then "Strive to enter" means struggle to get saved, and "many will seek to enter and not be able" means there will be many who want to be eternally saved who will not be able to do so. That...

How can someone seek to enter into eternal salvation and not be able? I asked you this earlier and you "dodged" the question.

Jesus said it. Perhaps you recall the present middle imperative of ἀγωνίζομαι in Luke 13:24 I pointed out earlier; literally, "keep on struggling to enter." I have already affirmed it in my first post, citing Acts 17:26, and in my most recent contribution above. Do you read my posts at all?

You are certainly free to disagree. One question, though: did Jesus really intend for His disciples to talk to Samaritans and Gentiles in Matthew 10:5-6? If not, how do you know when to read Gentiles into the word "sheep" in the OT and Gospels and when not to?

Respectfully, it is equally easy to say you can't nullify what the Old Testament and Gospels say about Israel as God's sheep by quoting Galatians, which Paul wrote decades after Christ to make an application of Old Testament truth to New Testament Christians, the kind mentioned at the end of my...

"For I know that my Redeemer liveth, and that He shall stand at the latter day upon the earth; And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God, Whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another; though my reins be consumed within me." Job...

For those only now hearing about this, it happened six months ago.

Fair questions. I would suggest that prior to the cross and Pentecost, Jesus is identified as the one who will "save His people from their sins" (Matthew 1:21). The future expansion of eternal salvation beyond the nation of Israel is still a mystery not yet revealed (Ephesians 3). "Go not into...

In a close parallel to Jude Peter says these condemned types "deny the Lord who bought them" (2 Peter 2:1) and are "cursed children" (2 Peter 2:14) who have "forsaken the right way" (2 Peter 2:15) which means they were once in or on it. Hebrews 6 similarly compares immature believers to children...

I could imitate you and ask you to quote where I drew any distinction between kingdoms, which is something you seem to have read into my post, but I will instead simply remind you that claiming something is nonsense doesn't makes it so. Believers can and should seek fulfillment of their kingdom...

With all due respect to the copious quarts of ink spilled in the multiple books quoted here (and subsequent lively discussion), the simple teaching of the Bible appears to be that what convicts the unregenerate man and provides the occasion for repentance is not the Scriptures, so the...

Again, what you have overlooked here is that the subject in this verse is not eternal salvation. Jesus is speaking about the kingdom which God promised to Israel. They aren't synonyms. I invite you to explain how "striving" (ἀγωνίζομαι) to enter in the present imperative (i.e., "keep on...

Your vague and scripturally undocumented allusion to Abraham's individual election resulting in Israel's corporate election does not answer the questions I put to you. It's fine to just say "I don't know" instead of bristling up with hostility. I know the answers to my questions, by the way...

Because you didn't give one, as already pointed out.

Jesus' words in Luke 13 say nothing at all about seeking eternal salvation, thus they prove exactly nothing about spiritual inability pro or con. Are you here to learn at all, or only to preach?

Why can't you answer my questions? You say "In summary, when God chose Christ to be His Redeemer, that was an individual election that resulted in a corporate election, everyone subsequently redeemed was corporately chosen in Him, as the target group of His redemption plan ..." This notion...

Perhaps, but Luke 13:24 isn't one of them. Acts 17:26-27 is more to your point.

A misunderstanding, perhaps, not "disinformation" which rather unkindly accuses me of intentional distortion. Your statement is far from clear, especially when considering the case of Old Testament Israel and Old Testament saints - which you seem to say were placed spiritually in Christ when...

You fail to address Old Testament salvation with statements like this, and "obvious" is in the eye of the beholder.

I am directly addressing your post. You said, "whoever is 'in the corporate sphere' of His choice is chosen, and therefore anyone who enters that sphere becomes chosen or elect. ... when a person sincerely puts their trust in Christ, they enter that sphere and become 'elect.'" This is not the...