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The problem I have with that is that it says in verse 9 of chapter 7 in Revelations says that it is a number no one could count and also that they were from every tribe and nation. They aren't just Jewish and they aren't just 144,000.
The idea of actually being on the earth at the time is also...
9 After this I looked, and there before me was a great multitude that no one could count, from every nation, tribe, people and language, standing before the throne and before the Lamb. They were wearing white robes and were holding palm branches in their hands. 10 And they cried out in a loud...
"After these things I looked, and behold, a door standing open in heaven, and the first voice which I had heard, like the sound of a trumpet speaking with me, said, “Come up here, and I will show you what must take place after these things.” 2 Immediately I was in the Spirit; and behold, a...
The actual transliterated word for this is the phrase "shall depart from" in the KJV which is transliterated aphistemi which means
to make stand off, cause to withdraw, to remove
to stand off, to stand aloof
to go away
to desert
to fall away
to shun, flee from
to cease to vex one
to withdraw...
So, if God knew that he would steal and betray Jesus and not truly repent of it then in what sense was he at one time saved? I do get it that foreknowledge and predestination are not the same.
To me, if a person is truly saved then their sins are forgiven. All of their sins. If Judas had...
I noticed today my gym will be remodeled starting Thursday of this week, so it will be closed for 9 days while they remodel. I guess I will be running outside. I'm looking forward to what they do to improve things.
So your saying that God didn't know that he would eventually betray Jesus and fall away? Yet, Jesus told Judas at the last supper what he would do and it wasn't a surprise to him
there's a joke that a man died and his brother told the preacher "If you say something nice about him I will give a big donation to the church."
So, the day of the funeral the preacher gets up and says to the congregation.
"I want you to know that the man who lies here was a cheat and a swindler...
Well, it's possible then that I was never really around people who were truly Calvinistic. But, I do remember people stressing importance of what they would call the preservation of the saints meaning that if a person is truly saved then they will remain saved and if they do falter then they...
I've spent most of my Christian faith in the Baptist church and they normally teach "once saved, always saved" and I would say that your characterization of this doctrine as saying that faith is irrelevant is wrong. Faith is always relevant because without faith it is impossible to please God.
To be honest, it felt a little like that during the first ten days or so of getting use to it. I have a lot of allergies, so I had to go with the full mask that covers both nose and mouth and it was hard to get use to
One commentary I read says something similiar to what you have said here. Except that it says that the false prophets were misleading a small group of people who had heard the gospel and were a part of the community of faith, but had been mislead by these false prophets. So, their state now...
So he's bringing up a hypothetical that couldn't actually happen. What would be the point of that? The 1 Cor 15:16 verse is clearly demonstrating the importance of the resurrection. What would be the point of a hypothetical in 2 Peter 2:20-22?