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I would think being listed in Hebrews Chapter 11 qualifies as being noted for their faith. Hebrews 11:1 teaches that an aspect of faith is the assurance or full confidence in what is our hope, the conviction that something is true. Thus all these people acted in a way that demonstrated they...

Hebrews 11:2 NASB For by it the people of old gained approval. Our first Greek word ("gar" - G1036- and translated "for") is used here to reinforce the validity of the statement, so an alternate translation choice might be "assuredly." Next, "by it" refers to...

God is reconciling humanity to Himself. 2 Corinthians 5:19. The Greek word, translated "world" by the NASB is "kosmos" and refers to humanity, but not to every single person of humanity. He has reconciled some of the parts of humanity, and some more will be reconciled in the future. To claim...

Yet another strawman construct, did anyone say "Elected based on prescience?" Here is what I said: "when God chose His Redeemer, Christ, He also by that choice, chose corporately those who His Redeemer might be redeemed." When did God formulate His redemption plan and choose His Redeemer, His...

Martin Marprelate said: "It refers to finishing the work that the Father gave Him to do (John 17:4), particularly, in context, of providing propitiation - satisfaction to the outraged justice of God - by His sacrificial death upon the cross." Yes, the context is fulfilling...

1) No, you are reading into "knowing about the day and hour" more than necessary. 2) Those who had received those blessings in the past, had been in the past chosen and transferred into Christ. The flow of thought completely supports our corporate election of Ephesians 1:4. Recall "he chose...

1 Peter 1:1-2 NET From Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to those temporarily residing abroad (in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, the province of Asia, and Bithynia) who are chosen according to the foreknowledge of God the Father by being set apart by the Spirit for obedience and for sprinkling...

Scripture says the Father knows something about or concerning "that day and hour" but just what is known is not stated. For example, the Father could know that whenever His predetermined number of elect is reached, then Christ will return. See Matthew 24:36. Yes, I believe a number of...

The topic of this thread is the difference between Knowledge and Foreknowledge as used in scripture. Foreseeing the future is never indicated. Acts 2:23 NASB this Man, delivered over by the predetermined plan and foreknowledge of God, you nailed to a cross by the hands of godless men and...

Hi Tea, You make two assumptions in your opening post, in my opinion. One, you seemed to assume, from the quotation for "Clement of Rome" he believe all the elect had already been chosen, supporting the Calvinist claim of people being predestined to salvation before creation. However, I...

Sir the issue is not what "most Christians do not doubt" but what scripture teaches. Salvation is "of" the Jews. The "of" translates the Greek preposition "ek" and means "from" as in out from or originating from. Thus Salvation was brought to Humanity in the person of Jesus, from a line of...

1) I am nearly a decade older than 73. 2) It is finished refers to finishing and accomplishing, or fulfilling what He had in mind. 3) All your words are in the above "quote." 4) Here is where you use "doublespeak." You say "Christ provided reconciliation for all His people" when I say...

You can believe in the racist views of the past, with God promising to a particular blood line, rather than to believers of the same faith as Abraham, but I believe Galatians 3. If we could just understand God's promise is to those whose faith He credits as righteousness, it would be so much...

Yet another diversionary post, claiming to utilize information acquired or formulated in the past and being used in the present is beyond comprehension. No verse says or suggests God knows everything imaginable, that is an unstudied view. Inherent Omniscience is the modern doctrine.

Every once is a while, we find a blockbuster verse that conveys in ambiguity what we had not understood before our study of the verse. 1 Corinthians 1:30 is such a verse. Here is the NASB translation as footnoted and scrubbed of italic additions. But from Him you are in Christ Jesus, who...

I) In my declining years, my vision is deteriorating, thus I often increase the size of the fount. Thus you charge I do it to add to my argument is false. Whereas your effort at disparagement is the fallacious against the person ploy. 2) To claim the "therefore" only applies to the prior...

God's provision of innate Soul Competency is required both make sense of witnessing, as otherwise the effort would be akin to casting pearls before swine, and to allow us to see the justness in holding those responsible for going against what they see are right. incompetent people are not held...

Yet another diversionary post from those unwilling to discuss the truth of scripture. God desires all people to be saved in accordance with His redemption plan. That is why Christ laid down His life as a ransom for all. That is why He tasted death for all people. That is why He became the...

"Saved by grace through faith." This phrase requires that our faith is somehow utilized in the process by which God unilaterally saves people. The phrase does NOT read "Saved by grace without utilization of faith." The Calvinist rewrite of yet another verse. "Everyone who believes into Him."...

A well known foible in bible study is to read into scripture one of the meanings of the English word used to translated a Greek word or phrase. If, rather than "foreknown" the translators had used known beforehand, all these fictional claims the word refers to foreseeing the future, the modern...