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I'm sure you are unaware that none of your references support a conditional salvation.I didn’t say “conditioned on” man’s works.
I said it’s conditional, because the Bible says it’s conditional.
John 1:9-13; 3:14-21; compare Hebrews 3:18-19; 4:1-2.
Well speak up, conditioned on what ?I didn’t say “conditioned on” man’s works.
I said it’s conditional, because the Bible says it’s conditional.
John 1:9-13; 3:14-21; compare Hebrews 3:18-19; 4:1-2.
Your the one being evasive my friend.You being evasive, you said many things.
So, are you an universalist ? Do you believe everyone will eventually be saved ? If not why not ?
Yes grace is a gift..The faith is a gift given to us as a result of the gracious salvation provided to us "even while were dead in our sins." You cannot boast about your gracious salvation or your gracious faith, given to you by God.
Saved by grace, through faith, still necessitates grace first, faith second. You must acknowledge "But God..."
Notice there is no "but you" in the passage. It's nowhere in scripture, let alone this passage. So, stop propping up "you" as the one to look at in regard to salvation.
Grace is the cause agent. Faith is the effect of the cause.Yes grace is a gift..
But personal salvation is a result of that faith. Because without Gods grace all the faith in the world would not matter.
You still have to CHOSE to have faith.Grace is the cause agent. Faith is the effect of the cause.
Without God's grace, there is no saving faith in this world.
God is the cause. Faith is the effect of God causing.
You also know I am not a universalist..
You have to choose to have Faith ? Who a spiritually dead sinner, who cant please God in the flesh ? No God doesnt force people to have Faith, He gives them Faith in the New Birth. Otherwise man cant please God in the flesh.You still have to CHOSE to have faith.
God ain’t going to force it on you.
Your understanding has put you in a bad place, you are denying what scripture affirms, that those whom Christ died, His death healed them, saved them 1 Pet 2:24
24 Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were heale
You have to choose to have Faith ? Who a spiritually dead sinner, who cant please God in the flesh ? No God doesnt force people to have Faith, He gives them Faith in the New Birth. Otherwise man cant please God in the flesh.
Where is your assertion ever stated in the Bible? Where does God say "you have to choose to have faith before I can save you"?You still have to CHOSE to have faith.
God ain’t going to force it on you.
1 Pet 2:24 is in agreement with scripture, unfortunately you dont understand scripture friend.BF you keep running to the same verse as if it overrides the rest of scripture. The fact that you will not trust scripture is your problem. The truth has been pointed out to you over and over again but you are stuck in your calvinism.
Rom 5:10 For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God through the death of His Son, much more, having been reconciled, we shall be saved by His life. Notice that reconciled & saved are two different thinks.
Now at this point your saying it was the elect that were reconciled but the bible disagrees with you.
2Co_5:19 namely, that God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and He has committed to us the word of reconciliation.
So unless you are indeed a universalist then you have to agree that there is a condition for those that have been reconciled {the world} so that they can be saved. There is Rom 10:13 for "WHOEVER WILL CALL ON THE NAME OF THE LORD WILL BE SAVED." But why would the call on Christ so as to be saved you ask?
Rom 10:14 How then will they call on Him in whom they have not believed? How will they believe in Him whom they have not heard? And how will they hear without a preacher? They need someone to tell them about salvation through faith in Christ Jesus and then they can choose to trust or reject the message.
Rom 10:9 that if you confess with your mouth Jesus as Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved;
Rom 10:10 for with the heart a person believes, resulting in righteousness, and with the mouth he confesses, resulting in salvation.
I dont ignore it. If anyone ignores it is you. You dont believe in the saving work of Christ. How were they healed/saved according to 1 Peter 2:24, and what was said to happen in Vs 25 ?And you still ignore scripture Ephesians 1:13 is clear we have to hear and believe before we are saved.
Where is your assertion ever stated in the Bible? Where does God say "you have to choose to have faith before I can save you"?
Show me the verses that make this demand before God can save.
silverhair
1 Pet 2:24 is in agreement with scripture, unfortunately you dont understand scripture friend.
I will include Vs 25
25 For ye were as sheep going astray; but are now returned unto the Shepherd and Bishop of your souls.
Because Christs death heals, saves, it returns them He died for unto the Shepherd and Bishop of their souls.
The word returned is the greek word epistrephō:
to cause to return, to bring back
Also the word in the verse is in the passive voice, which means they are being returned, they are being acted upon which causes them to return to God, to their Shepherd. This is because Christ died for them and healed them, saved them,and gives them a conversion experience. . Now does this occur with all men exception ? NOPE because Christ didn't die for all men without exception. He didnt die for none that arent converted, returned to the Shepherd, after they went astry Isa 53:6
- to the love and obedience of God
All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.
Now all them, the Sheep who in adam turned everyone his own way, because of their sins laid upon Him, His stripes, they are returned hallelujah ! What a Saviour !
silverhair
Teaching the same thing. Those who have been reconciled by His Death SHALL BE SAVED BY HIS LIFE !
So again, only them who are saved by His Life did He die for. Saved here means they are healed, converted. His Life is His Resurrection Life He gives them with quickening, He quickens all who He died for, He is a quickening Spirit 1 Cor 15:45
And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit.
Quickening here is the greek word zōopoieō:
It means to cause to live, so they are saved by His Life being quickened from spiritual death, and converted.
- to produce alive, begat or bear living young
- to cause to live, make alive, give life
Now unless you believe in universalism, Christ could not have died for everyone without exception, because if He did, #1 they all would be reconciled by His death and # 2 Saved by His Life, meaning quickened by His resurrected life !