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Sing F Lau
Repentance towards God REQUIRES a man to do something... it is man's work of turning turning turning, turning from sins and unrighteousness, unbelief and lies and falsehood and superstitions, etc.
Believing requires man to do something... it is work... it is man's work of turning to Christ the Saviour, to His truth, His righteous ways, etc.
Christ says believing is work, a work God requires of His children.
Jhn 6:29 "Jesus answered and said unto them, This is the work of God, that ye believe on him whom he hath sent."
The grace of faith and repentance that are WORKED in the hearts of God's children ENABLE them to believe and repent. Believing and repenting are spiritual activities performed by those who have been given eternal life.
A Biblical distinction is the essence of SOUND theology... otherwise all you have is SOUND-bytism!!!
Repentance towards God REQUIRES a man to do something... it is man's work of turning turning turning, turning from sins and unrighteousness, unbelief and lies and falsehood and superstitions, etc.
Believing requires man to do something... it is work... it is man's work of turning to Christ the Saviour, to His truth, His righteous ways, etc.
Christ says believing is work, a work God requires of His children.
Jhn 6:29 "Jesus answered and said unto them, This is the work of God, that ye believe on him whom he hath sent."
The grace of faith and repentance that are WORKED in the hearts of God's children ENABLE them to believe and repent. Believing and repenting are spiritual activities performed by those who have been given eternal life.
A Biblical distinction is the essence of SOUND theology... otherwise all you have is SOUND-bytism!!!
Pieter
God is the one who will and makes you repent. It is all Him. We wont, so He Makes us willing.
God is the one who will and makes you repent. It is all Him. We wont, so He Makes us willing.
Your biggest problem is your pride. Rom 9:16. It is not of Him that willeth, nor him that runneth, but God that showeth mercy. Faith is a gift from God, if God does not give you faith, you will no in any way have it. Faith without works is dead. It is a separate thing but it's evidenced by the work based on it. Jesus also said that salvation is of grace not of worsk lest any man should boast.
[God makes you willing is not the same as God wills and makes you repent. If don't see the difference, better hold your peace!]
[God makes you willing is not the same as God wills and makes you repent. If don't see the difference, better hold your peace!]
Sing F Lau
Pieter, your wee small (not big yet!) problem is that you cannot distinguish the eternal salvation in which man DOES NOTHING, because he is in his native state of sin and death from the temporal salvation in which God's children must respond to the commandments of God. Repentance is commanded of those whom God has bestowed - freely and sovereignly - eternal salvation.
If any man thinks that God commands those still dead in trespasses and sins to repent and believe in Jesus Christ, I say that man does not yet know the a,b, c of the gospel.
No man is so stupid as to command a dead man to eat a big Mac; but there are so many such among teachers of the word doing that!
Sad, isn't it???
Pieter, your wee small (not big yet!) problem is that you cannot distinguish the eternal salvation in which man DOES NOTHING, because he is in his native state of sin and death from the temporal salvation in which God's children must respond to the commandments of God. Repentance is commanded of those whom God has bestowed - freely and sovereignly - eternal salvation.
If any man thinks that God commands those still dead in trespasses and sins to repent and believe in Jesus Christ, I say that man does not yet know the a,b, c of the gospel.
No man is so stupid as to command a dead man to eat a big Mac; but there are so many such among teachers of the word doing that!
Sad, isn't it???
Pieter
Actually, repentance is commanded of both...
Actually, repentance is commanded of both...
Sing F Lau
A man may be stupid (lacking common sense), God is always consistent, as well as infinitely wise. It is STUPID men who make God to appear stupid!!!
God declared that He sovereignly purposed eternal salvation for a particular people, and entrusted them to Christ to redeem them.
Christ came to sovereignly redeem those that are His and not one more, i.e. AS MANY AS - God the Father gave to Him.
The Holy Spirit sovereignly applies that same salvation that Christ has accomplished to the SAME people...
The Lord Jesus Christ ordained the gospel ministry for the calling out of the SAME people... calling them to repent and believe the truth of their eternal salvation by God's free and sovereign grace. They are called to believe that which IS ALREADY true, and not that something may come true.
God's children are commanded to repent and believe what is ALREADY true of them.
