Second of all, it's easy for you to only answer the posts that you are able to answer.
Instead of telling me what I believe, why don't you just stick to my posts and answer them as I've answered yours?
Of course - I only answer posts that I am able to answer, how can I answer posts that I can't answer? But that
doesn't mean every post I don't answer is because I can't answer it.
As I recall, you asked me to reconcile two verses and that's what I did.
Do you know the Bible so well and precisely that you have a 100% understanding of it, so you
can answer all questions? If so, then why are you asking me?
It's so disappointing to me that you don't find my posts interesting.
You show many conflicts within the NT.
The problem is, and I've told you this before, that your posts go on forever. Normally when someone asks a question
they have the courtesy to keep it to a minimum. You for some reason seem to be unable to do that. That's fine
if you insist on it, but I'd rather not spend hours going through and answering each and every one of them. You told me at one point that you would stop doing that.
We've been through all of your disagreements many times before, and I'm sure you won't change your POV now should we attempt go through them again another time- doing so would be a waste of both of our time and effort, and therefore, be worthless. In fact, I can't imagine why you keep asking me the same questions since you fundamentally disagree with my understanding and are willing to comprehend what I've been saying.
Is it not interesting to you that the NT is chock full of conflicts and misinformation?
It is so not "chock full of conflicts and misinformation". Apparently, you just don't know how to read and interpret it, nor do you have faith in it, nor are you willing to expend the effort necessary for understanding. The Bible in-total was written by God as a fully integrated book, but it takes time, patience, desire, and determination to go through it to the extent necessary. Even at that, in my opinion, unless the reader is of the elect, they probably will never "get" it because they are of "natural man"
If God COMMANDS us to do something,
and you think we are unable to do what He commands...
THEN WHY IS GOD COMMANDING IT??
God isn't commanding anyone to do anything, His command is to NOT to do anything - not to work for salvation in any form. Salvation is a gift from God. Nothing we can do can bring it about - He gives it to whomever He has so chosen for it. All of the attributes of those saved, to include repentance unto Christ, are from/by salvation, not to salvation. When someone is truly able to trust completely in Christ's completed work with confidence and joy, that is an indication in my opinion, that salvation has been given to them. However, it is not God's intention that everyone receive it.
Regarding salvation, unsaved man finds God's demand not to work, reprehensible, and impossible to believe true, nor to be trusted. But that they have that belief, is neither God's fault nor responsibility. Rather, it was of satan, Adam and Eve, not of God. Nevertheless, God had/has the divine right and privilege to dispense salvation to whomever He so chooses it being solely and completely as a gift to them-- but no one has a human birthright to it. Just the opposite in fact, our birthright is to NOT have it - that anyone receives it, is purely and solely of God's mercy and grace - no one is, nor can be, deserving of it.
Who do you think could be a savior besides Jesus?
You have some person in mind?
Or you think because God COMMANDS us to obey Him and share in our salvation that makes US a savior?
Only Christ is the Saviour, and in order for Him to have been given the title of Saviour, He must have accomplished
everything, everything, for salvation with no exceptions, and with nothing remaining to be done.
Should it be that any part of it remain for us, then He couldn't be the Saviour, and if we were to do it, then that would make us our own saviour because there can only be one Saviour. How could it be otherwise?
What an unbiblical idea.
Put forth by some that think they're better than every other Christian because they can accept a God that other Christians cannot.
Neither Brightfame nor I think that we are any better than anyone else because it is by Christ, not of ourselves. Just the opposite, we, in understanding salvation, realize that we are all undeserving sinners - with no one
being any better than anyone else: in God's eyes, mankind is a fallen people.
So many mysteries in the Calvinist paradigm.
So many unanswered questions.
If you think that true, then it is because you lack understanding.
There are no mysteries and very few unanswered questions.
What we believe is the easiest and simplest of all regarding salvation, and can be
understood and summed up in only two words: Jesus Christ. He is the foundation and
apex of our belief. Everything starts from, and ends with, Him - it is just as simple as that - no more,
no less. If you cannot not understand that you have not found the foundation to the find true single overarching, spiritual message of the Bible.
[Heb 10:7-9 KJV]
7 Then said I, Lo,
I come (in the volume of the book it is written of me,) to do thy will, O God.
8 Above when he said, Sacrifice and
offering and burnt offerings and [offering]
for sin thou wouldest not,
neither hadst pleasure [therein]; which are offered by the law;
9 Then said he,
Lo, I come to do thy will, O God. He taketh away the first, that he may establish the second.
[Heb 12:2 KJV] 2
Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of [our] faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.
