Re: It's not me torturing you, it's my inability to make a valid argument
If God is not sovereign, if things can happen that He doesn't expect or doesn't want, and if His first plan was thwarted, then how can we trust His current plan of salvation?
Where does the Bible mention the age of accountability or age of understanding? Chapter and verse, please.
Esau was not under God's grace. God hated him before he was even born.
Rom 9:11-13
11 (For the children being not yet born, neither having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him that calleth;)
12 It was said unto [Rebecca], The elder shall serve the younger.
13 As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated.
The Bible makes it clear that some people were before of old – i.e., before they were born – ordained to condemnation.
Jud 1:4 For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ.
Pro 16:4 The Lord hath made all things for himself: yea, even the wicked for the day of evil.
Well, if someone's said it on the Internet, it must be true!
It's just a lie to comfort people who are grieving. Like doggie heaven.
You seem to be forgetting that sin is not just doing something bad but failing to do what is good. There are sins of omission and sins of commission. Babies may be incapable of doing some bad things, but they are also incapable of doing anything good. Indeed, without God's intervention, all people are by nature incapable of doing good. We are born this way.
Jer 13:23 Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? then may ye also do good, that are accustomed to do evil.
Those who sin wilfully will be punished more severely than those who sin in ignorance, but the ignorant will still be punished.
Lk 12:47-4847 And that servant, which knew his lord's will, and prepared not himself, neither did according to his will, shall be beaten with many stripes.
48 But he that knew not, and did commit things worthy of stripes, shall be beaten with few stripes. For unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall be much required: and to whom men have committed much, of him they will ask the more.
What evidence do you have to show that sprinkling water on a baby's head "works"?
What a strange thing to say! If babies have no original sin, and cannot sin, why would they need to be forgiven?
No, it isn't.
Mt 5:17 Think not that I am come to destroy the law [Torah], or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil.
Well, the Bible says they do, so I believe it, even though I have never heard a baby lie before and don't know anyone who has. I know the Author of the Bible, and He doesn't lie. Nothing would change my mind on the matter.
Jesus declared all food clean (Mk 7:18-19) and rendered sacrifices obsolete (Heb 10:1-18). That means we don't have to observe Old Testament dietary and ceremonial laws, but the Old Testament still applies to Christians today. There is nowhere in the New Testament that says Psalm 58:3 no longer applies.
Indeed, even some of the most obscure laws contain valuable instruction for the Christian (2 Tim 3:16). For example. Paul quotes Deuteronomy 25:4 to show that he is worthy of being paid for his work as an Apostle.
1 Cor 9:9-10
9 For it is written in the law of Moses, thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen?
10 Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope.
Originally posted by OneFailure
View Post
Originally posted by OneFailure
View Post
Originally posted by OneFailure
View Post
Rom 9:11-13
11 (For the children being not yet born, neither having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him that calleth;)
12 It was said unto [Rebecca], The elder shall serve the younger.
13 As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated.
The Bible makes it clear that some people were before of old – i.e., before they were born – ordained to condemnation.
Jud 1:4 For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ.
Pro 16:4 The Lord hath made all things for himself: yea, even the wicked for the day of evil.
Originally posted by OneFailure
View Post
It's just a lie to comfort people who are grieving. Like doggie heaven.
Originally posted by OneFailure
View Post
Jer 13:23 Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? then may ye also do good, that are accustomed to do evil.
Those who sin wilfully will be punished more severely than those who sin in ignorance, but the ignorant will still be punished.
Lk 12:47-4847 And that servant, which knew his lord's will, and prepared not himself, neither did according to his will, shall be beaten with many stripes.
48 But he that knew not, and did commit things worthy of stripes, shall be beaten with few stripes. For unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall be much required: and to whom men have committed much, of him they will ask the more.
Originally posted by OneFailure
View Post
Originally posted by OneFailure
View Post
Originally posted by OneFailure
View Post
Mt 5:17 Think not that I am come to destroy the law [Torah], or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil.
Originally posted by OneFailure
View Post
Originally posted by OneFailure
View Post
Indeed, even some of the most obscure laws contain valuable instruction for the Christian (2 Tim 3:16). For example. Paul quotes Deuteronomy 25:4 to show that he is worthy of being paid for his work as an Apostle.
1 Cor 9:9-10
9 For it is written in the law of Moses, thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen?
10 Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope.
Comment