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Originally Posted by Aquila
Amen. Especially the notion that we have anything to offer to earn such grace. Our righteousness is like filthy rags to God. We'd no sooner be able to build a wooden ladder to Heaven. It's all His work, from start to finish:
Romans 8:30
Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified. |
While in full agreement concerning election and the sovereignty of God what do you think about the verse before the one quoted?
8:28 We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, to those who are called according to his purpose. 8:29 For whom he foreknew, he also predestined
to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers. 8:30 Whom he predestined, those he also called. Whom he called, those he also justified. Whom he justified, those he also glorified.
Rom 8:28-30
It is his purpose or "work" to conform men to the image of Christ. Suppose "believers"
DO NOT wind up being
LIKE JESUS? Suppose they continue in sin? They wind up dying with sin in their life?
Since as you say the work is all
HIS, who is to blame?
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