Sounds like a perfect match. You don't have to do anything, or even believe in Christ - you and all others are saved.
Yet another variation of "Thou shalt not surely die".
Sounds like you have a stuttering problem?
Sounds like a perfect match. You don't have to do anything, or even believe in Christ - you and all others are saved.
Yet another variation of "Thou shalt not surely die".
So, by definition, they are not Jews, since they are not from Judah, but rather the other tribes...The book of James is written to the scattered tribes of Israel.
So, by definition, they are not Jews, since they are not from Judah, but rather the other tribes...
Iou, it seems you don't have anything of great worth to add to this
thread? Why is that?
If you want to talk theology - Great!
If you want to trade insults, then I leave you to what you are good at.
How can you be saved before you have been created? lain:I was saved by Christ to be in Christ before the foundation of the world...
Sounds like a variation of that old theme "Thou shalt not surely die"
"eventual salvation" sounds like "initial justification" :sigh: "What is the gospel of your salvation?" is such a simple question that hardly ever gets a right answer.The good news about my eventual salvation is that "He which hath begun a good work in me will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ." That is to say, He will see that work completed. It is guaranteed - literally.
The seal with the Holy Spirit is a guaranteed done deal just like our salvation! It cannot be broken. We cannot be unsealed anymore than we can be uncrucified, uburied, unrisen (Galatians 2:20 KJV, Colossians 2:11-13 KJV) or unseated (Ephesians 2:6 KJV). The seal is a guarantee of that which was already purchased. We were bought with a price (1 Corinthians 7:23 KJV) not rented (TH) and are awaiting pick up (Galatians 1:3-5 KJV, 1 Thessalonians 4:16-18 KJV, Philippians 3:18-21 KJV, Titus 2:13 KJV). The guarantee is good til then! PTL!There is no need for uncertainty, because He has given an earnest on salvation, as also it says in the verse that follows the one you reference (Ephesians 1:14). Click here for the definition of an earnest. The definition is probably necessary in order to understand the verses.
Now, why would God pledge an earnest on salvation if the full inheritance is already given, and men are already saved (past tense) in this dispensation? Earnests pertain to future transactions; not past ones.
In this case, the transaction is a purchase - God is purchasing me. As the buyer, once God has pledged the earnest, it is His guarantee that He will complete the transaction, and He cannot take it back.
Yet there remains the possibility that the seller (me) can cancel the transaction. The agreement is not so fragile that it might be canceled if I say a few unkind words or fail to do all the "good works" that have been laid out for me. The only singular way that I can cancel the transaction, is if I purposefully cancel the transaction by returning the earnest which God has pledged.
Coming back to Ephesians 1:13 (where you started us), we can see that the earnest God has pledged is His own Holy Spirit. Can such even be returned? Yes it can, and to do so is called Biblically, "the blasphemy of the Holy Spirit" or "grieving the Spirit."
Jarrod
Surely I have already died in Christ.
~Col 3:3 For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.
~Col 3:4 When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory.
~Gal 2:20 I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.
In Jas 5 the believer is in the process of falling away, in Heb 6 the person HAS fallen away completely.
Titus 3:5 KJVSounds like a perfect match. You don't have to do anything, or even believe in Christ - you and all others are saved.
Paul didn't tell him to DO anything, but to believe on the Lord Jesus Christ!May be I misunderstood you. What does one have to do to be saved?
Acts 16:30
No. It's believing what was done.
How can you be saved before you have been created? lain:
Satan doesn't really need new tricks, does he?
See:
Predestination and Will: How are predestination and election connected with foreknowledge?
Paul didn't tell him to DO anything, but to believe on the Lord Jesus Christ!
Acts 16:31 And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house.
No, you can be saved right where you are without lifting a finger.Is believing something man does ?
Another lie, believing is something man does !