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Election, Predestination and Scripture

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MennoSota

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Yes, I quote 2 Thessalonians 2:13 from the NASB, or LEB, or NKJV. The charge-o-mnatic repeatedly posts an agenda driven rewrite.
Unconditional election is shown to be bogus by 2 Thess. 2:13, so voila, we get a rewrite that does not teach conditional election. Such is how fake theology is defended. Just read the verses I posted

Read 2 Thessalonians 2:13 (in the NASB, LEB, NKJV, NET, HCSB or WEB).
Read James 2:5
Read 1 Corinthians 1:26-31
Read Romans 4:4-5 and Romans 4:23-24.
Read 1 Peter 2:9-10

Inescapable conclusion God chooses individuals during their lifetime, after they have lived without mercy, for salvation through faith in the truth. They love God and are rich in faith.

I notice you ignore 2 Thessalonians 2 when I quote it and you force only translations you like to be shared.

Van, your deceptive behavior is noted and your untruth exposed.
 

MennoSota

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If election is unconditional, why is harder for a worldly rich person to enter the kingdom of God, than for a camel to go through an eye of a needle? See Matthew 19:24. The truth is obvious folks, just trust in the truth
Why is it harder, Van?

What form of "rich" is hardest? Are you "rich," Van? Is this why it's so hard for you to accept that God chooses by His own Sovereign will, apart from human works?
 

Van

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Folks, if you think Charge-o-matic quoted 2 Thessalonians 2:13, I have a bridge for you to buy. He quoted an agenda driven rewrite.
Next he questions the truth of Matthew 19:24. The charge-o-matics must rewrite or deny verse after verse to assert their fake theology. Just read you bible folks.
 

Van

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Wholesale deflection, and loss of reality.
All they post is taint so, but devoid of any rebuttal.
2 Thessalonians 2:13 proves our election for salvation is conditional, and Matthew 19:24 proves our election is conditional. According the bogus doctrine of fake theology, it would just as easy (because everyone is compelled by irresistible grace) for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.

So we get absurdity and insult.

Unconditional Election has been shown to be bogus by about a dozen verses.
 

SovereignGrace

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Wholesale deflection, and loss of reality.
All they post is taint so, but devoid of any rebuttal.
2 Thessalonians 2:13 proves our election for salvation is conditional, and Matthew 19:24 proves our election is conditional. According the bogus doctrine of fake theology, it would just as easy (because everyone is compelled by irresistible grace) for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.

So we get absurdity and insult.

Unconditional Election has been shown to be bogus by about a dozen verses.
What conditions did you meet when He saved you? You keep avoiding answering it? Why?

Shoots your theological horse down.
 

Van

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Yet another repeat of the "what condition" question when it has been answered again and again. Pure obfuscation on display.
When God credits our faith in the truth as righteousness, He saves us. God chooses people who are rich in faith and love God.
See 2 Thessalonians 2:13 (in the NASB, NKJV, NET, WEB, or HCSB.)
See James 2:5
See Romans 4:4-5; Romans 4:23-24.

Unconditional Election has been shown to be bogus by about a dozen verses.
 

MennoSota

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Yet another repeat of the "what condition" question when it has been answered again and again. Pure obfuscation on display.
When God credits our faith in the truth as righteousness, He saves us. God chooses people who are rich in faith and love God.
See 2 Thessalonians 2:13 (in the NASB, NKJV, NET, WEB, or HCSB.)
See James 2:5
See Romans 4:4-5; Romans 4:23-24.

Unconditional Election has been shown to be bogus by about a dozen verses.
What if your faith wavers and you curse God when something goes wrong. Does God unchoose you?

Is everything dependent on you and your faith? Is God obligated to save those with faith? If so, how much faith is required to meet the cut off line between saved and damned?
 

Yeshua1

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Yet another repeat of the "what condition" question when it has been answered again and again. Pure obfuscation on display.
When God credits our faith in the truth as righteousness, He saves us. God chooses people who are rich in faith and love God.
See 2 Thessalonians 2:13 (in the NASB, NKJV, NET, WEB, or HCSB.)
See James 2:5
See Romans 4:4-5; Romans 4:23-24.

Unconditional Election has been shown to be bogus by about a dozen verses.
God chose those baser persons among us to get saved, as while we yet sinners, Jesus died to atone for those of us who have no faith and cannot save ourselves!
 

Van

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What if your faith wavers and you curse God when something goes wrong. Does God unchoose you?

Is everything dependent on you and your faith? Is God obligated to save those with faith? If so, how much faith is required to meet the cut off line between saved and damned?

Remember the ad - "Where is the beef?" Did you see any biblical support for unconditional election? Did you see a "change the subject" question to suggest my view is not OSAS. Disinformation on display.

Did I say salvation is dependent on an individuals faith? Nope - so yet another example of disinformation.

What did I say salvation depends on? God and God alone!

Pay no attention to these constant efforts at obfuscation.

Unconditional Election has been shown to be fake theology.
 

Van

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God chose those baser persons among us to get saved, as while we yet sinners, Jesus died to atone for those of us who have no faith and cannot save ourselves!

Do you see any biblical support for these bogus assertions? Neither do I.

OTOH, we are saved by grace through ... wait for it... faith!! Thus our faith precedes our salvation and (per 2 Thess. 2:13) our individual election.
 

MennoSota

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Remember the ad - "Where is the beef?" Did you see any biblical support for unconditional election? Did you see a "change the subject" question to suggest my view is not OSAS. Disinformation on display.

Did I say salvation is dependent on an individuals faith? Nope - so yet another example of disinformation.
Then you believe in unconditional election. If salvation is not dependent on faith, then God elects solely by His sovereign will, apart from what anyone does.
What did I say salvation depends on? God and God alone!
Unconditional election. Very good.
Pay no attention to these constant efforts at obfuscation.

Unconditional Election has been shown to be fake theology.
You, yourself, just made the case for unconditional election. Van, you are a two-faced person. Either it is God and God alone or it isn't. You said it is "God and God alone." That's unconditional election.
But, you claim unconditional election is a fake theology so you call yourself a liar and deny your own claim that salvation is of God and God alone.

Van, how may we help you find solid ground? You are being tossed to and fro in your own theology.
 

MennoSota

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Do you see any biblical support for these bogus assertions? Neither do I.

OTOH, we are saved by grace through ... wait for it... faith!! Thus our faith precedes our salvation and (per 2 Thess. 2:13) our individual election.

But Van, you just said...and I quote...
Did I say salvation is dependent on an individuals faith? Nope
Yet, in the top quote you say that we are saved by faith.

You contradict yourself.

Faith is not needed, but faith is needed.

You are floating on the waves and changing your mind at every turn.
 

SovereignGrace

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I would be taking James 1:6 out of context, however. James is in regard to us asking God for wisdom and then turning around and trying to solve a problem by our own rationalizing.

The reason I asked if that verse was applicable is the being tossed to and fro, as I picture a boat being upon choppy waters.

That's Van's theology. Its on choppy waters, being tossed to and fro.
 

SovereignGrace

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I would be taking James 1:6 out of context, however. James is in regard to us asking God for wisdom and then turning around and trying to solve a problem by our own rationalizing.


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Yeshua1

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Do you see any biblical support for these bogus assertions? Neither do I.

OTOH, we are saved by grace through ... wait for it... faith!! Thus our faith precedes our salvation and (per 2 Thess. 2:13) our individual election.
Dead sinners have no saving faith within them, not can they respond to God apart from the working of the Holy Spirit!
 

Van

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All the fake theology advocates have is absurdity. God elects individuals for salvation through faith in the truth.
If God does not credit our faith, as worthless as it may be, as righteousness, does our salvation depend on our faith? Nope.
These arguments are both irrational and absurd. And that is all they have. Just read 2 Thessalonians 2:13 (in the NASB, NKJV, WEB, LEB, NET or HCSB.)
Again, we are saved by GRACE through faith (God crediting our faith as righteousness at His sole discretion).

Pay no attention to all this obfuscation and absurd arguments. Not to mention efforts to disparage me.

Unconditional election of individuals for salvation has been shown to be bogus using about a dozen verses. So they spend their efforts disparaging me and trying to change the subject. Same ol, same ol.
 

Calv1

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In another now closed thread, Mr. Davis wrote:
Brother Van,



Yes, I am a one point Calvinist, I believe once a person is saved, they are saved forever, OSAS.

No God did not elect individuals to be redeemed before the foundation of the word. No individuals had been created, only God (in three persons) existed. The WORD was elected to be the Lamb of God, and thus when God choose His Redeemer, in Him He also chose us, those to be redeemed. You would not choose a Redeemer without a plan to redeem, thus He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world.

Why could this not be an individual election? First, no individuals existed, they had not been created. Second, scripture says we are chosen for salvation through faith in the truth. Therefore, for us to have faith, we had to exist. Third, God would not choose us individually twice, once before creation, then again during our lifetime. But God would choose us corporately when He created His redemption plan, then individually when He executed that plan. Lastly many verses indicate we were chosen based on our characteristics, thus an individual election during our lifetime (2 Thessalonians 2:13, James 2:5, 1 Corinthians 1:26-30, and 1 Peter 2:9-10. Ask yourself, when did we become a chosen people? After we had "lived" without mercy!

This paragraph wins my prize for the most muddled amount of error mixed with eisgeses, wow!
 
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