They do not yet know what achievements and claims are, and they can
accept free gifts.
The one exceptional difference between them all is that the Bible clearly explains that the only way to escape eternity in literal hell fire that goes on forever and ever, is to
accept the free gift of salvation that is only found in Jesus Christ the creator of all that you can see and can not see.
We've
accepted the free gift of salvation.
-- V.Sullivan, but as long as we work out our own salvation, he will be sorry for not even
accepting his free gift of salvation that Christ so humbly and loving offers him and everyone else.
He can — out of his mercy and love — offer to free you from this punishment — which is what He offered through Jesus Christ — but He can not force you to accept the offer — He can not force grace upon you, just like you can not force someone to
accept a free gift.
But brothers and sisters there will come a time when if we do not make a choice to
accept the free Gift that hung on that wooden cross then we will be separated from that Precious One for all eternity and that is OUR choice not God's.
Then by faith you would have to
accept his free gift of salvation and be born again.
Because he loves you, he will if he hasn't already, give you an opportunity to
accept his free gift.
When a person
accepts the free gift of God (see Romans 6:23) he receives a new Spirit (the Spirit of God).
You have the FREE WILL to choose to
accept His free gift or not... and if you choose not to... you have no one to blame but yourself for landing in «jail».
-- The Bible is very clear that one much
accept the free gift on the basis of faith.
The hospitals can either stop
accepting free gifts from the formula companies (a good idea, in any case) or only accept formula in smaller bottles.
Not exact matches
You will be able to
accept credit cards anywhere and process
gift cards with their
free magstripe reader that works with the Square app on smartphones and tablets.
2) I am paying just over an additional 500 per mth as it is now, but again, I don't want to take from «investments» to pay off a mtg. 3) That's also been investigated but if I were to do that I would a) exceed the
free gift law, b) the person would have to
accept the $ from me (going through an acct.)
When we trust God, when we
accept the
gift of mercy and love that God gives us in Christ, we become
free to be who God created us to be in the first place.
Every knee shall bow to him in the end but if you use your
free will to
accept him now, you can receive the
gift of eternal life.
It's something that's a — it's a
free gift, but it has to be willingly
accepted.
We have
accepted God's
free gifts of love and mercy to end that kind of slavery, so why would we wish that kind of life on someone we care for?
I have always believed that fallen mankind has always retained the inherent -
free - will ability that God sovereignly designed into Adam and Eve to be able to
accept or reject God's convicting / convincing / persuading / call / drawing, instructions, teachings, commands, promises and
gifts.
Don't swallow Satan's lies, writes Jeff Lucas, instead
accept God's
free gifts of grace and forg... More
Reason is a
gift from God so that we can choose with our
free will to
accept the light and life offered or reject it which ends in death and darkness.
If one lets the no - inherent -
free - will interpretation of the less than 0.5 % of the Scriptures set the precedence on what the word of God says about man's
free will, then a person is forced to do some absurd reasoning / interpretation of the majority of scriptures that imply that man has the inherent ability to
accept / believe or reject God's call / drawing, commands, instructions, promises and
gifts.
Don't swallow Satan's lies, writes Jeff Lucas, instead
accept God's
free gifts of grace and forgiveness.
Salvation is a
free gift from God to the human race, but each individual human has to make the decision to
accept Jesus as their Savior.
Because God is communicating to mankind through the Scriptures in the Bible in a style that reeks with an obvious understood implication that the hearer / reader, mankind, has the inherent ability to
accept / believe or reject His call / drawing, commands, instructions, promises and
gifts (some folk briefly refer to it as man's
free will), I let the concept of mankind having this inherent ability be the precedence.
Your sins are already forgiven, no one goes to Hell because they did not ask for forgiveness, a person goes to Hell because when they have passed the age of innocence, and have come to the Knowledge of the Gospel, or they have learned that Jesus died for their sins, and that He gives us salvation freely because He loves us more than we love ourselves, and we have to make a choice to
accept or reject this
free gift, if that individual
accepts Jesus as their Savior, then they go to Heaven, and if that individual rejects Jesus, then they go to Hell.
Calvinists try to say that this verse supports their concept of total depravity (that fallen mankind does not have the inherent
free will capacity to
accept or reject God's call / drawing, commands, instructions, promises and
gifts) because they interpret the words «the natural man» to be all of fallen mankind.
Grace is a
FREE gift, that one must
ACCEPT..
Christianity is
accepting GOD's
free gift of salvation and redemption through His son Jesus Christ.
The wrench in all this, is God graciously gives you all this as a
gift, but since we have
free will, we have to choose to
accept it.
Based on the precedent implication of the Bible (that fallen mankind has the inherent
free will capacity to
accept or reject God's call / drawing, commands, instructions, promises and
gifts), and on 1 Cor.
Thanks to the
gift of
free will from God, these people chose to not
accept Jesus and to be away from God.
Israel's present relatively ordered existence is the creation of God out of former disorder and is to be understood and
accepted as his creative
gift in fulfillment of his
free promise to the patriarchs.
The Calvinists on the other hand have their particular bias, precedence, of man having no inherent -
free - will capacity to
accept or reject God's call / drawing, commands, instructions, teachings, promises and
gifts that they interpret John 6:25 - 71 with — which interpretation is consistent with their precedence and consistent with their ideas of unconditional election and irresistible grace.
The Arminians have their particular bias, precedence, that initially fallen man did not have inherent -
free - will capacity to
accept or reject God's call / drawing, commands, instructions, teachings, promises and
gifts that they interpret John 6:25 - 71 with — which interpretation is consistent with their precedence and consistent with their idea of universal prevenient grace that gave all of fallen mankind a
free will capacity (at some time after the fall) to
accept or reject God's call / drawing, commands, instructions, teachings, promises and
gifts.
Because God is communicating to mankind through the Scriptures in the Bible in a style that reeks with an obvious understood implication that the hearer / reader, mankind, has the inherent ability to
accept / believe or reject His call / drawing, commands, instructions, promises and
gifts (some folk briefly refer to it as man's inherent -
free - will capacity), I let the concept of mankind having this inherent ability be the precedence; and I interpret difficult passages that can possibly be interpreted to appear contradictory to that precedence (of mankind having inherent -
free - will) in light of mankind having inherent -
free - will capacity.
Holly its not about how we feel its the decision you made to
accept Jesus so you are saved and you are now part of Gods family and the body of Christ.The enemy likes to play mind games to make us doubt our faith especially as a new believer.The word tells us that when we believe in Jesus we are saved.John 3:16 Personally i do nt believe we can lose that as it is a
free gift not based on what we do right or do wrong.As he died for us while we were still sinners..
In the third paragraph I, upfront, indicated my bias as to what I believe is the Biblical precedence which is that fallen mankind has the inherent -
free - will capacity to
accept or reject God's call / drawing, commands, instructions, teachings, promises and
gifts which biased my interpretation of John 6:25 - 71 — and my interpretation indicates that section of Scripture can be understood (interpreted) to be consistent with the precedence I mentioned.
True, the
free act by which God's self - communication is
accepted is itself the
gift of God and can only be realized as grace.
God did not charge them for anything up to this point, yet they refused to
accept His «
free gift», and delayed the process 40 years, and then added their own effort to the promise.
You have to
accept that the
gift of salvation — which is a
free gift offered to all of us by His death and resurrection.
Finally, once we've rediscovered the real Bible that's been hiding beneath the modern apparatus and are now faithfully receiving God's
gift, we are likewise
free to
accept his invitation to become new communities committed to living out God's story in our own world.
The devil can make your do nothing, you have
free will, God's greatest
gift to humanity... To believe in God is to
accept for responsibility for your actions, the anti-religious use rhetoric to slam religion yet they will never step up and use truth or doctrine to debate... Look up
free will on the Vatican site and you will see your theory on the «devil made me do it» as baloney and hate propaganda...
Calvinists, however, interpret Romans 3:11 (THERE IS NONE WHO UNDERSTANDS, THERE IS NONE WHO SEEKS FOR GOD;) in a wooden literal why in an effort to help prove their concept of total depravity (that fallen mankind does not have the inherent
free will capacity to
accept or reject God's call / drawing, commands, instructions, promises and
gifts).
Being a Christian means not only having a belief that Jesus is the Messiah that God promised to save us from our sins but actually
accepting that
free gift of salvation with humility and thankfulnness and entering into permanent fellowship with God through Jesus Christ.
The message has been that Jesus the Son of God was crucified for the sins of the humanity and that Jesus raised from the dead by God brings Divine Forgiveness and Salvation understood as access to God; as
free gifts to all who repent and
accept Him as Saviour and join the fellowship of the Church of Christ.
And we made sure we did not
accept the «
free gift» card invitation left on our bed.
If passed by the full Knesset, hospitals will no longer
accept free formula and other
gifts from manufacturers.
Curran also prohibits her staff from
accepting favors and
gifts of any kind, such as
free rounds of golf or
gift baskets, from vendors with business with the county.
On Monday, Grant, Deputy Chief Michael Harrington and Reichberg were arrested on bribery - related charges stemming from a three - year investigation into whether high - level NYPD officers were
accepting money and lavish
gifts such as
free travel, meals and jewelry in exchange for favors.