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  1. Arsenios

    Salvation

    Yes... And if they have already received it, impatience with God will squander it... Be impatient with your SELF, dear Menno... Not with God... And not with your neighbor... Arsenios
  2. Arsenios

    Salvation

    Yes, it says you WILL, but only IF... It is a paradox - You are totally determinative of your own Salvation... AND... You have no Power to Give the Gift of Salvation to yourself... The Good News in this "pair o' doc's" is that God is Faithful... He hath established His Salvation in the...
  3. Arsenios

    It's abhorrent.

    How about, say, 500 million Chinese? Then, say, 350 million from India and Pakistan... Not to mention, say, a hundred million from the Americas... I am not seeing any solutions except ethicized open borders... Arsenios
  4. Arsenios

    What's the difference between God's will be done and "God wants all..."

    Yes - And I agree with you that it is WITHIN God's authority... God has decreed auto-exousia for this fallen Age... Me too - Here, have another sandwich! You just exercised YOUR auto-exousia when you said: "I'll take God as the Sovereign Authority..." I just agreed with you - I do too...
  5. Arsenios

    What's the difference between God's will be done and "God wants all..."

    That day is coming -In the mean time, sin serves Righteousness unawares... The Bible calls it "The Mystery of Evil"... No - auto-exousia is the RULE in this fallen life - And from it, we self-determine our eternal future in the Age to Come... Where evil will be fully expelled... And none...
  6. Arsenios

    It's abhorrent.

    I would go with this, and with expedited adjudication and deportation... Arsenios
  7. Arsenios

    It's abhorrent.

    Ask the Native Americans how that worked out for them... They have been fighting against immigration since 1492... A flea cannot swallow a camel... The US cannot swallow the immigration world... They need to give their own countries freedom... We should help them... Arsenios
  8. Arsenios

    Salvation

    So you had BETTER be longsuffering! Because: IF YOU DON'T do so... You will NOT receive it! Words mean what they say, Fr'er Menno... Arsenios
  9. Arsenios

    Salvation

    That is a good answer, yet I am a student of brevity and pith... So I answered that OSASer as follows: "Life Eternal is a QUALITY of life possible to man in Christ..." Followed by: "Life Eternal is NOT some "length of time" in this fallen life we traverse as strangers..." I knew a sociopath...
  10. Arsenios

    What's the difference between God's will be done and "God wants all..."

    I say that the Servant IS the Master... What you present here is a solid philosophical case for the absence of free will... Christianity is not a philosophical system... It is God entering His creation to save the man whom He created in His Image... You have proven that you are subjecting your...
  11. Arsenios

    What's the difference between God's will be done and "God wants all..."

    Where in the Bible does it say that God has an ordained will? Does this will ONLY allow BAD choices by man, and does it then FORBID good ones? This is a strange doctrine by any standards... And then it gets REALLY strange: God does not green light sin for us because He has redeemed us...
  12. Arsenios

    Salvation

    So is it a fair assumption to say that "The Gospel of Christ is contained in the Gospels?"... And if yes, then "Why do we seek it in the Pastoral Epistles?"... Arsenios
  13. Arsenios

    Salvation

    "Through patient hope" means "IF we patiently hope"... Salvation is a great big IF... The history of the people of God is littered with its failures... Arsenios
  14. Arsenios

    Salvation

    I was hoping for a more direct answer... IF we enter into Life Eternal in this life, the HOW can we possibly lose it, because it is, after all eternal? How can eternity be subjected to time? Yet Paul in Hebrews tells us of those who have indeed entered, and yet have fallen away... I should...
  15. Arsenios

    Salvation

    Although He was a Son, He learned obedience from the things which He suffered. And having been made perfect, He became to all those who obey Him the source of eternal salvation, being designated by God as a high priest according to the order of Melchizedek. Hebrews 5:8-10 Christ learned...
  16. Arsenios

    Salvation

    For this reason I endure all things for the sake of those who are chosen, so that they also may obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus and with it eternal glory. It is a trustworthy statement: For if we died with Him, we will also live with Him; If we endure, we will also reign with Him...
  17. Arsenios

    It's abhorrent.

    One solution would be the establishment of an expedited detention facility for families, with expedited hearings so as to return them quickly to their country of origin... Another is to change the law... But that got blocked over the wall... Another is to ignore the law and not enforce it...
  18. Arsenios

    How can an unbeliever please God?

    Here is the Biblical answer: Psa 34:11-19 Come, ye children, hearken unto me: I will teach you the fear of the LORD. What man is he that desireth life, and loveth many days, that he may see good? Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile. Depart from evil, and do good...
  19. Arsenios

    Salvation

    Is Salvation Life Eternal? Joh_17:2-3 As thou hast given Him Power over all flesh, that He should give eternal life to as many as thou hast given him. And if it is, then we have the definition: And this is Life Eternal, that they might Know Thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ...
  20. Arsenios

    Salvation

    So is "Saving Faith" the faith that is the doing of the Gospel? If demons believing the Gospel is not salvation, the only thing that seems to be missing is the doing of the Gospel... OK - So what is Paul talking about here? Col 1:24 Who is now rejoicing in my sufferings for you, and am...
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