Featured Limited or Definite Atonement is the Gospel !

I challenge you to prove it to be true.
Prove that you are one of the elect, that Christ died for you, that you do indeed have salvation, if you did not accept that salvation by faith. If it is Particular Redemption as you claim, how can you know that you are of that elite group. Give evidence.

 

I am starting to thing that behind everyone of your posts is a teenager who parents have no idea what you are doing.

 

Uh no. I believe this is an actual fact. The way in which you present your views and then respond lacks any real maturity.

 

savedbymercy?

You are just nasty. Why in the world would any sinner want to repent and become like you?

Dude? Get a grip, have a heart, and show some kindness.

john

 

First, Paul did not mean "The Church" because there is no such thing. He was writing to "the church at Corinth," the assembly at Corinth, the local church at Corinth. There was no Universal Church. The word ekklesia means assembly. The only assembly he was addressing was the one at Corinth. It was a very personal letter in which he addresses questions that were being asked of him by certain members in the church. See 1Cor.7:1. "Now the things you wrote to me of..." They had written him a letter. He is answering back concerning the issues that they wrote to him. He is writing a specific letter to the church in Corinth.

Second, Paul always makes Scripture applicable. The Bible is not sterile. It was not written in a vacuum. Note the signature line on the bottom of each of my posts:
I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him against that day.

This was Paul's testimony. "I know", a testimony of faith. The object of his faith "whom I have believed. Again, faith in whom he believed. "Am persuaded" is indicative of another statement of his confidence or faith in Christ, "who is able to keep that which "I have committed" (another statement of faith) unto him against that day.

--Paul lived by faith. From salvation to death his life was a life of faith. The Bible is not a sterile book simply to be studied as if in a vacuum. It is living, powerful. It is the power of God unto salvation. For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God. (1Cor.1:18)

Paul gave his testimony. Can you give yours? How did you meet Christ? How were you saved? Is this book alive to you?

 

Paul wrote a personal letter to the church at Corinth.
Romans 16:25 has nothing to do with that letter.

The gospel was the same. The churches were different: one in Rome, one in Corinth. They were local churches.

Yes, it was the same gospel that he taught on three different missionary journeys, when he established over 100 LOCAL churches or assemblies. He never started a denomination nor a universal church. There isn't one.

Written to the church or assembly at Ephesus. How do you think the believers at Ephesus at that time would have understood those verses. Paul was writing to them. That church at Ephesus was one body of believers, as every church is.

No, I don't deny the gospel at all. It was written to the church at Corinth, to be accepted by faith. Those who accepted it by faith were saved. Those who rejected the message were condemned. That is what the message is.

 

Notice they had to receive the gospel. They received it by faith.
[quote2By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain. [/quote]
--Their faith had to be genuine. "unless you have believed in vain." This refers to a genuine faith; elsewhere put "believe in your heart."

--Look in Acts 18. Paul had been to Corinth. He preached there. Verse three says: "For I delivered unto you first." "YOU" are the Corinthians, the church that he established there.

The church of God which is at Corinth
This specifically identifies the church that Paul is writing to. It is not some mystery church, some unidentifiable, universal. invisible, esoteric, metaphysical, undefinable, existential, so-called church, not mentioned in the Bible.

Look at the context. The church he was speaking of here is the church at Ephesus. Everything in context.

Who was Paul speaking to?
Acts 20:17 And from Miletus he sent to Ephesus, and called the elders of the church.
--He was speaking to the elders of the church at Ephesus when he said those words. As they were applicable to the assembly at Ephesus they are applicable to every Bible believing local church today.

Again Paul was speaking to the church at Ephesus. Church, ekklesia means one thing--assembly. There is no such thing as an unassembled assembly.

Now going back to 1Cor.15:1-4, it is a good definition of the gospel. It was written to the church at Corinth. It was received by faith. It is the power of God unto salvation. If one rejects it they are condemned.

 

2Tim.2:15 tells us to study to show ourselves approved unto God, workmen that need not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth. Not butchering the word of God.

You can't throw unrelated Scriptures together to try and bolster your pre-determined theology.
Maybe we should ask what church Adam and Eve belonged to?

 

And they received it by faith.
Salvation is by faith.
As they received it by faith so must we all. Salvation is by faith and faith alone.

 

The scripture in post 1 has absolutely nothing to do with the title of post 1,

 

All scripture is one whole Revelation, it all has to do with Christ and the Church !

Including the scripture about if a married man dies without producing children his brothers have to sleep with the wife until she becomes pregnant?

 

Your posts are a personal attack on me, my faith, and ny savior.

Man, you are just nasty

When you first came to the forum I wanted you kicked out. But now I want you to stay so that maybe you can absorb some truth.

I disagree with the Cals on here, but i doubt that any of the Cals will agree with your nastiness.

Man, get a grip

John