Lightseeker your post is full of dangerous deception and whether intentional or not i find i must correct the false doctrine
i've got nothing against you personally Lightseeker but your post contains misleading error.
first this bit confuses called and chosen
Kaleo is the call to become a believer and kletos is one who has already been called/appointed...a saint
Mat 22:14 For1063 many4183 are1526 called,2822 but1161 few3641 are chosen.1588
called is the greek kletos 2822
klētos
Thayer Definition:
1) called, invited (to a banquet)
chosen is the greek eklektos 1588
eklektos
Thayer Definition:
1) picked out, chosen
so MANY are invited FEW are chosen out
chosen out of the called
as in come out of her
Rev 18:4 And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues.
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next this bit is no way to defend the false doctrine of free will
But I also believe that after being birthed into the family of God we do have free will. But I don't get adamant about that opinion.
JOH 8:36 If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed.
John 8:36 is talking about being set free from sin, not enslaved to an idol of the heart called free will!
the illusion of free will results in enslavement to sin not freedom in Christ.
free will is really the will of the beast, the man of sin sitting in the temple of God showing that he is God
2Th 2:8 And, then, shall be revealed the lawless one,—
whom, the Lord Jesus, will slay with the Spirit of his mouth, and paralyse with the forthshining of his Presence:—
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then we have this
There is still the issue of 'freedom of will' versus 'freedom of action'. As a believer I can choose (of my will) to kill some one. I can fire that gun point blank and have it "miraculously" miss the person and they run off. Did I have free will?...yes. Did I exercise my free will...yes. Was my will accomplished?...no. Whose will was?...GOD's! But how is the Judgment seat of Christ going to deal with my 'attempted/free will' action? Jesus said:
in the word of manuel from fawlty towers CHE!?
then this
That's why I think scripture admonishes us to take every thought captive to Christ. How can a Christian do that? By his own free will...I think.
but the scripture says
Phi 2:13 For it is God which worketh in you
both to will and to do of his good pleasure.
and again
Rom 9:16 So then it is
not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth,
but of God that sheweth mercy.
and again
Mat 26:39 And he went a little further, and fell on his face, and prayed, saying, O my Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me: nevertheless
not as I will, but as thou wilt.
when Jesus the Fathers holy Christ says "not as i will" then i just want to disappear altogether
talk about FAITHFUL
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i'm not typing all this to mount an anti Lightseeker campaign but because the doctrine matters
THE DOCTRINE
Joh 8:31 Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him,
If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed;
Joh 8:32 And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.
Joh 14:6
Jesus saith unto him, I am the way,
the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
Joh 21:18
Verily, verily, I say unto thee, When thou wast young, thou
girdedst thyself, and walkedst whither
thou wouldest: but when thou shalt be old, thou shalt stretch forth thy hands, and
another shall gird thee, and carry thee
whither thou wouldest not.
Joh 21:19 This spake he, signifying by what death he should glorify God. And when he had spoken this, he saith unto him,
Follow me. Luk 9:51 And it came to pass, when the time was come that he should be received up, he
stedfastly set his face to go to Jerusalem,
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