Rebuttal of the dreadful doctrine of reprobation
Did you read my original thread:
http://theologyonline.com/showthread.php?117756-Grace-is-unconditional-but-not-universal
Sonnet persisted in ignoring all answers given and was so disruptive, I finally closed the thread.
So he started this thread . . so far be it that he is open to instruction in the Truth of God at all.
You have sided with an avowed enemy of Jesus Christ, and have chosen to keep score against me? You have insulted and disappointed me beyond words . . .
I read it...
We are closer than you wish to believe, but I add...
Romans 14:11Holman Christian Standard Bible (HCSB)
11 For it is written:
As I live, says the Lord,
every knee will bow to Me,
and every tongue will praise God.
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Again, people will indeed reject God to His known face, but that hasn't happened yet in the Spiritual kingdom revelation
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In this age, all are given Commandments of Love that bind them to universally love. In this, Love is the supreme trait of Gods people!
Ps, I'm not talking about the Decalogue or Mosaic law that it represents.
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Consider how Paul suggest an unbeliever Married to a believer might be saved by union with the believer. Are we not Spiritually bound by Jesus to Jew and Gentile alike. There is no favoritism in the eyes of God. Jesus set out for the hearts of all.
We must exalt faith in the idea that Jesus accomplished much more on the cross than is said by today's logic.
God never said bury my inheritance, He said to multiply His inheritance.
We must have faith God saved ALL. This way all pride is removed! This way God alone will judge.
This way the places of worship, all who gather there, and all who share this understanding would propagate unconditional Love as the mark of God. This way the true measure of God may be genuinely expressed.
This way people will stop rejecting the idea of God because they don't want others judgment Lording over their lives and propagating the idea that we are created by a lazy Father that is devoid of Love to some of His children.
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This is a copy of your thread, which I respectfully read.
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The forgiving and saving grace of God comes to sinners unconditionally through faith; not by works.
Repentance is not required to be forgiven (justified) by God; rather repentance is evidence the sinner has been saved by God's power and grace, through gifted faith, alone.
All empirical and scriptural knowledge, denies any hope of universal forgiveness (atonement). Such is simply wishful thinking, that only perverts the Truth.
Nick's earlier thread OP includes the quote of Romans 5:18 to suggest that the death of Jesus Christ universally paid for "all" sins, but Romans 5:19 quantifies Paul's gospel message as pertaining only to "many."
Signature: "If I've offended you, that's me getting in the way of Jesus. If you search the Scriptures open to only the guidance of God's Spirit to Theologically level me..... I've succeeded."