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8/5/2020 10:08 AM |
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John UK wrote: Brother US, ponder away as you will, it is no problem. I am very much looking forward to reading your completed essay. I will just say that as you are pondering so long on this, it is surely a sign that you have not given it much thought in the past. Well bro, it is no different to myself, as these things are very recent in mine own thinking. There is far more to communion than most fellow believers realise, and it may be time to get out the creeds and confessions of our particular church and see what our founders thought about it. Clearly, the independent and separatist Baptist pastors of 1689 collectively agreed on a most informative and heartwarming exposition of what the communion was all about. And at last I now see that the communion table must be a closed table, even though that produces logistical difficulties. In those days the Baptists were called Strict and Particular Baptists; they held a strict (closed) table and a particular view of the atonement (that Christ died particularly for those chosen by the Father). John it is not so much a matter of not pondering in the past as it is t taking ime to write it out so it will communicate what I am trying to say in a concise manner this forum dictates. |
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8/4/2020 10:49 PM |
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John UK wrote: So, brother, however you interpret the eating of his flesh and drinking his blood, you will still have to do it, or you have no life in you. So how and when do you eat his flesh and drink his blood? Thank you. Still pondering what I have written. |
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8/2/2020 4:01 PM |
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Sorry about the double post Let us consider John 1:12 12 But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name: In the English language receive and believe are both action verbs Go further into the Greek and you discover that both words are in the Active Voice which means it Represents the subject as the doer or performer of the action (Blue Letter Bible) it is followed by verse 13 Which were born not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God. Credit is given where it is due, but clearly there is an action by those who received Him and were given authority to become the sons of God. |
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8/2/2020 4:00 PM |
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Good point sister ladybug, an omniscient God knows what man will do, and I think you will search in vain for me saying that God is waiting around just hoping that mortal man will allow Him to work. But is it, as you say doublespeak?God said to Adam, where are you? Did God know where He was, yes, but He wanted a response from Adam. What have you done? Did you eat? God knew all those answers yet He wanted a response from man. Multiple examples could be given, asking Elijah at the entrance to the cave why he was there? God asked Cain why he was mad, where is his brother. Again, God knew how they would respond but He wanted a response. Note Ezekiel 33:11 Say to them: ‘As I live,’ says the Lord GOD, ‘I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but that the wicked turn from his way and live. Turn, turn from your evil ways! For why should you die, O house of Israel?’ Read the chapter the response of man brings either judgement or deliverance. Yet as you correctly point out He knows before hand what they will do and still says turn and ponder the consequences . |
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8/2/2020 4:00 PM |
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Good point sister ladybug, an omniscient God knows what man will do, and I think you will search in vain for me saying that God is waiting around just hoping that mortal man will allow Him to work. But is it, as you say doublespeak?God said to Adam, where are you? Did God know where He was, yes, but He wanted a response from Adam. What have you done? Did you eat? God knew all those answers yet He wanted a response from man. Multiple examples could be given, asking Elijah at the entrance to the cave why he was there? God asked Cain why he was mad, where is his brother. Again, God knew how they would respond but He wanted a response. Note Ezekiel 33:11 Say to them: ‘As I live,’ says the Lord GOD, ‘I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but that the wicked turn from his way and live. Turn, turn from your evil ways! For why should you die, O house of Israel?’ Read the chapter the response of man brings either judgement or deliverance. Yet as you correctly point out He knows before hand what they will do and still says turn and ponder the consequences . |
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8/2/2020 12:18 AM |
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Response. A noun defined as an answer or reply, as in words or in some action. When asked in Acts 2, Men and brethren what shall we do? Peter did not say “Nothing, if you’re elect God will save you”. He said Repent and be baptized in the name of the Jesus Christ for the remission of sins and with many other words did he testify and exhort saying, Save yourselves from this untoward generation. Philip told the eunuch he must believe, Ananias told Saul to call upon the name of the Lord, Peter told Cornelius to believe in Christ, Paul said the same to the jailer. Romans 10 says that the unregenerate must hear the Word of God, confess, believe and call upon Him for salvation. Paul told the Athenians to seek the Lord, Paul told the people at Lystra that they should turn from these vanities unto the living God. There is no indication that a response was not expected when the gospel was preached. Paul oft condemned the Jews for their lack of proper response and said he was going to the Gentiles. After saying what is the gospel in I Corinthians 15 Paul said so we preached and so ye believed. Paul commended the Thessalonians for turn from idols to serve the living and true God. Continued |
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8/1/2020 10:03 AM |
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ladybug wrote: Only GOD can give understanding on what the true Gospel is-this Gospel that points to Christ ALONE... You are right I was not in anyway addressing anything that John MacArthur had said. Just addressing that the gospel calls for a response from man. certainly not saying it can be accomplished apart from the work of God. |
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7/31/2020 1:05 PM |
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John UK wrote: Brother, let us look at this passage, and why I included it. John 17:4 KJV (4) I have glorified thee on the earth: I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do. Jesus says he has finished the work which God the Father gave him to do. This was before he had finished the work which God the Father had given him to do. Jesus instituted the new covenant in his blood before even the crucifixion took place. "Drink ye all of it, this is the new covenant in my blood." And "do this in remembrance of me." Remembrance of what, exactly? It had not happened yet. A moment before, they were still living in the old covenant, celebrating passover. Are not these things so? If I am barking up the wrong tree, please rephrase your initial point so that I understand it better. Thank you. John doesn't show that He wasn't using symbolism at the Passover meal with His disciples. Thanks |
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