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10-10-2012, 04:50 PM
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Re: Are Christians better?
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Originally Posted by houston
You're bitter!!! LOL
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 YEP! That's it! I'm bitter because you're better! 
Been Thinkin
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10-10-2012, 04:33 PM
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Isaiah 56:4-5
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Originally Posted by Apostolicman7
Of course not. All of our righteousness is as filthy rags. We like sheep have gone astray. We have turned our own way, and our iniquities have been laid upon Christ. There is no one who is Good but God. We are all sinful in nature.
So, are Christians better than non-believers? Not at all.
Are Christians in a better place than non-believers? Absolutely.
The difference is that we have a savior who has remitted our sins, and brought us out of the cesspool of sin. This is not because we were somehow more special than non-believers. This was because we heard the gospel and responded in faith. We are in a better position than those who have not yet responded, and remain lying in the cesspool, yet we are not better because we'd be right back where they are if we didn't have Christ.
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Its not because you responded. It is because you were predestined to respond.
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10-10-2012, 04:46 PM
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Re: Are Christians better?
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Its not because you responded. It is because you were predestined to respond.
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I'm a glaring example of how the doctrine of predestination doesn't make sense.
Of all the people in the world, there is nothing about me that would cause God to choose me and not someone else. In fact, the opposite is true. If he picks and chooses certain people to be saved, and certain others to be damned, then I would have no hope of salvation.
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10-11-2012, 07:51 AM
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Re: Are Christians better?
If true Christians aren't better than they would be otherwise, there is no point for anybody to be one.
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10-11-2012, 08:18 AM
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Re: Are Christians better?
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Originally Posted by ILG
If true Christians aren't better than they would be otherwise, there is no point for anybody to be one.
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Expound please.
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10-11-2012, 10:22 AM
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Isaiah 56:4-5
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Originally Posted by Titus2woman
Expound please.
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If you're not a better person A.D. than you were B.C., there is no point being a Christian. A lustful lying lascivious lady should not be a lustful lying lascivious lady after her encounter with Jesus. If she is, there was no point to her encounter. Actually, she's worse off now. She would receive greater damnation than someone who didn't know any better.
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10-15-2012, 02:22 PM
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Isaiah 56:4-5
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Good question. What does the HG infilling do to your "sin condition"? Does it disappear? If not, is it easier to deal with?
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Oh boy.
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10-15-2012, 03:05 PM
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Re: Are Christians better?
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Originally Posted by houston
Oh boy.
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What do you mean by that?
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10-15-2012, 02:53 PM
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Re: Are Christians better?
It gives you access to 1 John 1:9.
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10-16-2012, 08:09 AM
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Re: Are Christians better?
yup
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