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Re: The Impossible for the Enlightened
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Originally Posted by Esaias
They had 40 years to get their act together and consistently and repeatedly failed to do so.
It teaches that the Christian who apostasizes and turns away from faith in Christ has no expectation of being saved. It is impossible to renew them to repentance does not mean it is impossible for them to repent, but that it is impossible to renew them to repentance, which I understand to mean it is impossible for preaching to re-convert them.
The use of the admonition in chapter 3 and 4 is to warn people against rejecting the Gospel while pretending they still have a covenant relationship with God. That is, the Judean is warned that rejecting Christ while still claiming to follow God and his Covenant would not avail, they would like the Exodus generation be barred from inheriting the promises of God.
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All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost; The old that is strong does not wither, Deep roots are not reached by the frost. ~Tolkien
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