Rightly dividing 2 Thessalonians 2:13

[Charlie24]

You seem to be a very angry man. We are discussing God’s Word and instead of attempting to understand a different point of view you become insulting and sarcastic and insinuate I worship a different God because we disagree.

It is very sad to see a professing Christian engage in such behavior.

Peace to you

Don't let it be said I'm not sociable, we can talk about the weather, what you're going to plant in your garden next spring, or maybe sports.

But the Scripture, nah, that's not for us.

 

[Brightfame52]

I think I've already answered that a few posts back.

Well if God already knew and created them anyway by His will, He determined they would be damned for their sins. It would have been better for them not to have been born but thats wasn't their choice

 

[Charlie24]

Well if God already knew and created them anyway by His will, He determined they would be damned for their sins. It would have been better for them not to have been born but thats wasn't their choice

Yea, that sounds like that Calvinist God.

 

[canadyjd]

Don't let it be said I'm not sociable, we can talk about the weather, what you're going to plant in your garden next spring, or maybe sports.

But the Scripture, nah, that's not for us.

Well that’s too bad. If Christians cannot discuss scripture in a civil manner, what must the lost think of us?

Peace to you

 

[Van]

As always, you ignore key phrases in the passage to make it fit your belief.

The passage does not say we are “chosen” through faith in the truth. The passage says we were chosen by God from the beginning for salvation..

Paul them elaborates on how salvation occurs… through sanctification by God Holy Spirit and faith in the truth. Paul is not addressing how the choosing occurs. That idea is mangling the Word of God to force pre conceived bias into the passage.

The only time, that I can find, that scripture tells us “why” we are chosen is that is because of the kind intention of God’s will.

Only God gets the glory for our salvation.

Peace to you

That is the CALVINIST REWRITE, changing salvation a Greek noun, into saved, a Greek verb!!!!!!!! They charge others with their malfeasance.

 

[Van]

Van, the best thing man has done to the scriptures is also the very most dangerous. The, so called, Books of the Holy Scriptures are not books and these letters, inspired by Yehovah God, do not have chapters and verses. The last four words of these seven are in violation of the command to neither add nor to subtract from the Word of God. And you are trying to intellectualize what our Creator has had recorded? Even a Simple Man understands the first three words and comprehends their meaning.

Sir, your view is from the beginning "of the Creation." which adds and is in violation. If you say, they are "understood," then so are mine. Your defense of falsehood is obvious and absurd. You did not either grasp or respond to the fact no one was chosen by being set apart in Christ before Christ died, therefore "from the beginning" must refer to the from the beginning of the New Covenant.

 

[Brightfame52]

Yea, that sounds like that Calvinist God.

Its the God of the scripture. Nobody asked to exist, God caused you and me to exist for His purpose, we weren't consulted our will meant nothing in the matter; And it goes for everyone, and the people who He knew that would all their lifetime continue in unbelief, and die in their sins and suffer eternal torment, He chose for them to do just that, Its His will they came into existence to suffer that destiny.

 

[Charlie24]

Its the God of the scripture. Nobody asked to exist, God caused you and me to exist for His purpose, we weren't consulted our will meant nothing in the matter; And it goes for everyone, and the people who He knew that would all their lifetime continue in unbelief, and die in their sins and suffer eternal torment, He chose for them to do just that, Its His will they came into existence to suffer that destiny.

Sovereignty taken to extremes.

I read in the Scripture of a God that so loved the world He gave...

A God long suffering with man not willing that any should perish.

But you see what you see.

 

[Brightfame52]

You did not either grasp or respond to the fact no one was chosen by being set apart in Christ before Christ died, therefore "from the beginning" must refer to the from the beginning of the New Covenant

False, men were set apart for salvation in Christ from the foundation of the world
having their names written in the book of life from the foundation Rev 13:8

8 And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.

That book contains the names of the individuals Christ was to come into the world and be slain for their sins This book of names was determined b4 Christ died in time

 

[Van]

Lol you write your own Bible

This is all they have, change of subject posts, attempting to turn the thread from biblical study to petty personal food-fights.

 

[Brightfame52]

Sovereignty taken to extremes.

I read in the Scripture of a God that so loved the world He gave...

A God long suffering with man not willing that any should perish.

But you see what you see.

Apparently youve read a lot of things you dont understand. So whose will was it for a person to exist and end up in hell for their sins ?

 

[Brightfame52]

This is all they have, change of subject posts, attempting to turn the thread from biblical study to petty personal food-fights.

What you call your bible the kjvan version

 

[Van]

What you call your bible the kjvan version

This is all they have, change of subject posts, attempting to turn the thread from biblical study to petty personal food-fights.

 

[Brightfame52]

You did not either grasp or respond to the fact no one was chosen by being set apart in Christ before Christ died,

Thats false God the Father set apart men and preserved them in Christ b4 they were called in time Jude 1:1

1 Jude, the servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, to them that are sanctified[set apart] by God the Father, and preserved in Jesus Christ, and called

 

[Brightfame52]

This is all they have, change of subject posts, attempting to turn the thread from biblical study to petty personal food-fights.

You making it into van study, nothing biblical about what you asserted friend

 

[Charlie24]

Apparently youve read a lot of things you dont understand. So whose will was it for a person to exist and end up in hell for their sins ?

It's never been God's will for anyone to perish, man chose that for himself.

Even the example of Pharaoh when God hardened his heart, it was the result of God's foreknowledge knowing he he would rebel to the end.

It was not God' will for him to perish, but God did make an example of him as a standard of rebellion.