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There is one thing for sure. If he is to enter the kingdom of God he would need to be born again.

Could there be many brothers, making one the firstborn of many brethren, before there be one, who...

Why does it appear to me that if I have to do something to be saved then it is me saving myself. I want to determine the good and evil.

Bro Mark

That passage says it all and proves why Nick is closer to the truth than others.

Verse 30 is speaking of righteousness (justification) which is of faith, which is imputed to us...

Simeon hath declared how God at the first did visit the Gentiles, to take out of them a people for his name. Acts 15:14 Are these people for his name added to the church? Will they reign with Christ?...

I agree with you as both could be accepted in their context.

I see Christ perfected in death by resurrection in three days in Psalms 139 and we, those written in the book life, in continuance...

Course I assume the question could be asked, what is life and when does one receive written life.

So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on...

BTW markedward, I also think your OP makes sense.

John how would you relate this verse to Rev 13:8 and 17:8. I will leave out the added, "help," words.

Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being imperfect; and in thy book all were written, in...

The only problem I have with looking at Rev 13:8 in that manner is that to do so would negate in a way what I believe to be the same statement from 1 Peter 1:18-20. There, I believe the lamb was...

Well let's think about it just a little.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son. J3:16

When was this foreordained? From the foundation of the world. Why even then was...

Well you can see from some of my other post how I think about who believes. I think a better example than John 3:16 would be John 7:37,38 In the last day, that great [day] of the feast, Jesus stood...

Keep in mind.

There is a reason why, before God said let there be light, God determined his generated Son would die.

How is that concept relative to going to heaven and or going to hell?

Bro Mark I have not chiseled my belief on that in stone at this present time. I might add I am 70 so don't know I long I will have to chisel.

I understand the promise as given to Abraham...

I agree with you Nick.

His blindness for three days was to show him that it is God who opens the eyes of the blind, who removes one from unbelief unto belief. And God does that by giving one the...

Where in the word of God does it speak of people being called for heaven and those not called for heaven then must, by logic be called for Hell?

The predestined, are called, according to purpose....

What did Paul choose?

That morning when he left for Damascus, Paul was in unbelief concerning Jesus.

But ye believe not, because ye are not of my sheep, as I said unto you. John 10:26 -----...

My take concerning Psalms 139 is that it is about Christ instead of David. See below from thread in end times forum

Re: Is the travailing woman which gives birth to a man-child in Revelation...

How was it erased from us?

Why was it, foreordained before the foundation of the world, that the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot; would be shed?

Why did God before the before times of...

TG, Here is what I believe it to mean.

For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision, but a new creature.

Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot...

Great post Nick. I know we do not always see eye to eye but that was a great post.

To believe that you have the will to determine to be born again says it was your will to be born the first time....

It means before God said, "Let there be light," God had determined he was going to generate with a created being of God a Son subject to death, of which predicated upon this Son, being obedient unto...

Why was Christ killed before the man was created who brought sin and death? A concept was decided before there was a need.

Adam was created so the Christ could came in his figure. Why?
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Paul knew who Jesus of Nazareth was. Paul probably knew Jesus had said he was the Christ. Paul for sure knew that those of, the way, said Jesus was the Christ, witness Stephen.
Paul probably was in...

Even as David also describes the blessedness of the man, unto whom God imputes righteousness without works, Blessed they whose iniquities are forgiven, and whose sins are covered. Blessed the man to...

They were weak in the flesh. God put the man he had created in the garden to dress and to keep it. What was, the great dragon, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, doing in the garden where...

He has free will. However from the first until now except for the Lamb of God, all choose to sin. We do it willfully because we are weak in the flesh of which God created us. Jesus the only begotten...

Why, before Adam sinned; Why, before Adam was created in the image of God; Why, before there was grass and animals and the sun and moon causing the seasons; Why, before God said, "Let there be...

I totally agree. Man does not trust the God who created him to save him. Eve was deceived into eating of the fruit and she gave to her husband who was with her and he did eat. What did he so want?...

It means exactly what it says, Jesus is, "the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead;"

First, born from the dead. No one else to this date has been born...