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No I don't discredit Christ's death. I discredit the thought that people don't have to respond and accept His offer to become reconciled with God. Jesus wept when Jerusalem rejected Him. Their relationship with God was not good and for some of those it will never be good.
My relationship with...
I'm against the death penalty, because they're demon posessed and there is a chance they can get saved, but it can't be that they have more rights, which is what is the case in Holland. They rape one, get a 2nd chance and rape and kill the next and then everyone is upset when a kid gets raped...
Here's an answer from a reverend on a Dutch reformed forum:
In 2 Corinthians 5:19 it says that God reconciled the world to himself in Christ. But then it says in verse 20: be reconciled to God. I do not get that. The previous line says it has already happened and then it says it still has to...
It sounds like this:
exactly when this justification is applied to the elect is a question on which Reformed theologians have not always agreed. Traditionally and almost universally, Reformed theology has affirmed that sinners are justified / pronounced righteous before God upon faith in...
No he said:
Sure people Christ died for are born sinners in the flesh and all that, even enemies, but scripture says people Christ died for were reconciled to God while in that sinful condition Rom 5:10.
Which is true, but he says that's only for the predestined and because they are reconciled...
https://www.concordante-publicaties.nl/studie/verzoening/
When two parties that were once enemies come together and make peace again, we call it reconciliation. Reconciliation doesn't always have to be a two-way street. Sometimes one wants to settle a quarrel, but the other remains angry. Then...
God hates evildoers. God so loved the world. He hated our fleshly sin nature so much that He had it killed. That's the wrath part. He loved us so much that we can get a new spirit through the death and resurrection of Jesus and be reconciled.
I think reconciliation has to come from 2 sides. If God could reconcile us onesided, we wouldn't have to hear the Gospel and get saved. We would be born saved. We have to let ourselves be reconciled with Him. He just got rid of the sin nature, but the sin nature is not dead yet when we live in...
They were reconciled, but they were also told for that reason to be reconciled with God.
They saw Jesus do miracles and still didn't believe that He was the Messiah, because they loved darkness, but some of those, like a load of priests, later got saved after He was risen and Paul had hope to...
I may be wrong, but it sounds like you talk about driving with drugs, but tango talks about driving hard without drugs on a German autobahn, which may kill a bird, but is safe or do it on a circuit alone, even safer, as an example of doing something that is forbidden, yet doesn't hurt anyone...
I have always found it weird that you have to pay 80 euro if you don't wear a helmet on a moped, but if you want to climb some dangerous mountain it's fine, nobody cares.
Alcohol and marijuana, yes it's clear what it does and there is a warning on medical drugs, but there are loads of warnings...
And meanwhile I just read this in the Newspaper:
Consumers must be better protected against cheap items from abroad that are dangerous or unhealthy. Minister Micky Adriaansens (Economic Affairs and Climate) therefore announces strict rules: "You cannot go far enough to get unsafe products off...
And I just gave 2 euro to a guy who said he needed a place to stay and then a girl yelled at him that he shouldnt beg for money, because he was gonna use it for pot. Sigh. Next time I make sure I have no cash with me. Once a guy asked for money. He didnt even do effort to make me think it was...
Because the Bible always says 2 opposite things that are both true?
Ephesians 2
2 And you He made alive, who were dead in trespasses and sins, 2 in which you once walked according to the [a]course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who now works in the...
https://credomag.com/2012/06/hyper-calvinism-and-the-free-offer-part-33/?amp
the New Testament plainly describes all unbelievers as “condemned already” (Jn. 3:18; cf. 3:36). “Just as” all the non-elect, believers were themselves children of wrath (Eph. 2:1-3) and are therefore brands snatched...