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Ihedinobi3:
I try to answer every question as clearly as possible, but I understand that I am not always as clear as I want to be. So I appreciate specific questions like the one you asked here to help me try to clarify whatever is still fogged for whatever reason.

Regarding your specific request here, choice does not purchase salvation. When a gift is offered, we can accept it or reject it. In the matter of salvation, this is infinite times more true.

Salvation is from the just consequence of our rebellion against God. Every human being except the Lord Jesus is such a rebel and is condemned to the Second Death after this life. Or, that was the case until the Lord Jesus paid the Price of our sin and made us free from that consequence.

Now, although He has purchased our eternal pardon with His Spiritual Death on the Cross, no one is forced to accept that pardon. Everyone is perfectly free to reject it, if they prefer to. It is a most curious thing that anyone would, of course, but the vast majority of human beings from the beginning of human history until its end has, is, and will reject it. The reason is that rebellion against God comes from arrogance, a very insane but intoxicating belief that a creature can depose its Creator and rise to take His Place.

This is what I meant. We all choose whether we will be saved or not, but we cannot pay for Salvation, since the price for it is too high for any human being, nay, any creature at all to bear. Only God Himself could pay it, and He did in Christ Jesus.

As for your WhatsApp request, please excuse my reluctance. I much prefer emailing. If you wish, you could email me at Ihedinobi3@gmail.com.


CC: budaatum

Well thanks

Ihedinobi3:
There are actually four questions here including the thread title. Each question addresses something different.

1. Are people predestined to Heaven/Hell?
The answer to this is yes. See Romans 8:28-30; 9:11-29; Ephesians 1:11. Romans 3:5-8 is also very useful in understanding this.

The short explanation is this: we are not God. That means that we are unable to do anything at all without God's Own Enabling. For us to be able to do anything, including to choose to believe in Jesus Christ and be saved, God must enable or empower us to do it.

Now, since God has always known who and who would want to believe once they are given the choice, He designed such people and creation around them so that they would choose to be saved. If He didn't do that, then they would not be able to choose what they want to choose.

The same thing applies to those who do not want to believe and be saved. God knew them before creating them. So He designed them to be able to choose to not believe and be saved.

This is what the Bible calls Predestination.


2. Is salvation strictly by election?
This is something called a loaded question. Salvation is by grace through faith, a free gift of God offered to all human beings. See John 3:16; Ephesians 2:8-9. Election is another matter altogether.

Election is woven together with Predestination and Salvation in the Bible, yes, but it is not the same thing as both. Election is God's Choice. That is, God elects some people or chooses them to be His. But He does this with discrimination (Ephesians 1:3-14). That is, there are qualifications involved in being elected. Only those who believe and remain steadfast in faith are elected.

Again, God knew who would stay true to Christ until the end of their earthly walk and therefore chose them because of their own free will choice to believe.


3. Do we merit Salvation?
Obviously not. See Ephesians 2:8-9 and John 3:16 again. Faith is not payment for Salvation. It is merely the means by which we receive it. It's like getting into an Ark to be saved from an unstoppable Flood. The act of going into the Ark is not something you do to be rewarded with Salvation, rather it is something you do to take advantage of salvation. Just like reaching out an open hand to receive a gift, we receive Salvation with the open hands of Faith. So, we do not merit it at all.


4. Are people condemned to Hell from birth?
See the answer in #1. No one is justified or condemned unilaterally. Those who are justified are justified because they believe. Those who are condemned are condemned because they do not.

The only exceptions here are children below the age of accountability and the mentally deficient who are so from birth. For them, because the Lord Jesus has paid for all sin, they are automatically saved since they did not reject Faith in Christ. In fact, every human being is written in the Book of Life because Jesus bought Eternal Life for all of us. People only lose it by rejecting Faith in Christ or failing to embrace it.


Let me know if anything is not clear.


CC: IAmSabrina

Thanks for the time, what is not clear is the lack of clarity generally,

In one breath, you say men don't merit salvation since it is a free gift of God, in another you say it is our choice, please clarify


Also kindly WhatsApp me

IAmSabrina:
Are people predestined for heaven or hell?

Yes. Yes they are

Scriptural evidence

Is salvation strictly by the election of God or we merit it? Are people condemned to hell from birth?

Let's have you say based on scripture

What exactly is a dream?

What is the difference between a dream and a vision?

Why do some dreams come through?

Is dream interpretation a gift of the holy spirit?

Does Satan also give dreams to people?


Thanks

All things were created by Jesus, through Jesus and for Jesus

Amen and thanks

chris31:
Allow the woman to concentrate on her marriage before u got what ur looking for then ur eyes go clear

Buhahahahaha

RealPhoenix:
At times I wonder what actually do women want?
Maybe she's enjoying the attention from the friend or lover.
If they are not phucking today, believe me they will phuck tomorrow.
My advice : confront her, she will probably accuse you of jealously since you haven't caught them in bed, but then confront her with holy anger and stern warning. If eventually she won't listen, then know that she is of no value, wake up from the wasted love.

Stop addressing this matter as if I am the husband

amhelpless:
he's just her bestie nah, Op you are too jealous, !!!

Just jealous really

Deicide:
Its impossible cause no 9ja girl even if you point gun for their head would ask a guy that

True story

Ogbenimax:
sleep over NO

...


Meaning?

Roon9:
Lols... Them no born my girlfriend well to type that shit not to talk of wife.... She go reach her father house 2mins

Is it that bad, bro

You check your wife's phone
And she has sent WhatsApp message to a guy she says is a casual friend...

Like " happy vals day dear, can I take you out?

This same guy, your wife has sent her pictures to before, though not nude

What will you do as a husband

Could it be normal friendship?

The bible charges Christians to be constant in prayer, and pray without ceasing

It is for your own benefit to pray beloved

We know how sophisticated smart phones are. Smart phones do many things, but once the battery is gone, the phone becomes useless until it is recharged.

As a Christian, praying and studying the word is your way of recharging your battery else you are not useful just like a smart phone with dead battery

You appreciate how often we connect our phones to the charger because we want to keep the phone useful
Our charger is prayer, and our power is Jesus Christ, who is God over all , Amen

Jesus Christ is more than a prophet, He is God Almighty

Loving this thread, op, kindly WhatsApp me, +233546484944

The gifts and calling of God are irrevocable

Anytime there is a 'chance' to sexually defile yourself, note that there is a great breakthrough nigh

Do you know that, anytime you resist the temptation to sin, you overcome the devil ? And there is a promotion to you passing every single test ?

You can only over come sin by the power of the holy spirit


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I am not seeing your contact on WhatsApp oo

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Please I am outside Nigeria, can I WhatsApp?

Still waiting

Please I know this is not the right section for this
But , please I need somebody with knowledge or expertise in law and also in labour.

Thank you very much

Is it good to have enemies as a child of God?
Is it Good if you are hated by many?

Is fierce opposition against a child of God good?
What must be a child of God's response to hatred, enmity and opposition?

Thanks

junkiesneverdie:
Why did you say so? I have had some issues I prayed, I fasted yet no result now all that made me stop believing.

My dear I am a living testimony, God is so real, that you have seen anything yet doesn't mean he doesn't care

Joseph was captured and sold, imprisoned... Yet.....you know

For a married woman to be friends with another married man? I mean normal friendship?
That she calls him once in a while and he does same?

That she can tell him " I miss you?"
Is it normal?

The lamb of God
The causeless cause
The bright morning star
The light of the world
The faithful and true
Everlasting father
Lord of Lords
Ancient of days
Elohim
YHWH

I praise you

1. You feel weak after masturbation

2. Masturbation shrinks your organ

3. Masturbation drastically reduces your self esteem

4. Masturbation depresses yo

5. It makes you not enjoy real sex

6. It makes you timid

7. The act drives you away from God

8. It empties you of your self worth

9. It leads to blindness and spinal injuries

10. Masturbation is a waste of your blood.

NB: I am an ex masturbator . I broke free by the power of the holy spirit

This Antichrist called Frosbel 2 is an agent of Satan on this forum unleashed to blaspheme the holy name of God and as well attack the faith of infant Christians.

I advise that, u don't open any thread created by this fox .

Many demonic agents are let lose on this forum, please watch and pray. Very soon, they will know who created them. Thank you