Since it is about the election and rejection of Israel for God's purposes, many believe that Romans 9 teaches that even after we receive eternal life, if we fail to live according to God's purposes, we either lose our eternal life or we prove
we never had it in the first place.
If there is one person who should have lost his salvation or proved
he never had it in the first place, it is Jonah.
Nowhere is the author making the point that if people sin willfully, or even if they return to an empty form of religion which accomplished nothing, that this proves that they do not have eternal life, lost their eternal life, or
never had it in the first place.
Maybe he really has lost interest or
never had it in the first place, but my point is that we simply do not know and should not write the rumours off just yet.
Maybe that's why we all do it — because believing it's all predetermined makes it a bit easier to relinquish control, as if
we never had it in the first place.
If you've
never had it in the first place, then you're not going to miss it.
in his classroom, you can find him writing on YoungandThrifty.ca, or limping around a boxing ring trying to recapture something he likely
never had in the first place.
Some dogs that detest their crates can actually develop a kind of separation anxiety that
they never had in the first place.
The best way to get rid of fleas is to
never have them in the first place.
This is repeated over and over and over, making for one drab storyline, especially when the best excuse the writers can come up with is a character simply saying that
he never had it in the first place.
It really shouldn't be so hard to know what to eat... but we're been bombarded with so much insipid food that's either been stripped of its nutrients or
never had any in the first place, that eating well can take some effort.
Michaels wasn't «stripped of his title,» because
he never had it in the first place.
Downside is you might leave money on the table but many a million have been lost from investors trying to protect money
they never had in the first place.
For rent of only $ 525 a month it's not worth it to fork over the $ $ $ to put in the duct work for central air (the house
never had it in the first place) and at just under 800 square feet these two units plus three ceiling fans provide enough cooling.
Not exact matches
Most smartphone users
have either moved on to touchscreens and learned how to make them work, or they
never knew the physical alternatives
in the
first place.
Garoppolo did eventually receive treatment from TB12 weeks later, but by the sound of Wickersham's story, the issue was
never fully resolved as to why he
had been locked out
in the
first place.
«These things should
've never been added
in the
first place, especially microbeads.
But if Papa can pull it off, not only will he be a much, much richer man, but he'll earn a legendary reputation on Wall Street among Ackman and others who will wish they
'd never doubted him
in the
first place.
Sall found that, more often than not, by taking a step back to evaluate, he
'd realize he
never really needed the thing
in the
first place.
If they choose to buy from someone else simply because you weren't able to take their call, you
never really
had them as a client
in the
first place in my opinion.
Porn producers can get away with making big profits through obvious copying and exploitation of the intellectual property of mainstream entertainment companies, yet those same mainstream copyright holders are going after websites that allow individuals to swap movies and music that they probably
never would have bought
in the
first place.
In other words, if mortgage rates and house prices were not an issue, the government would never have been involved in housing finance in the first plac
In other words, if mortgage rates and house prices were not an issue, the government
would never have been involved
in housing finance in the first plac
in housing finance
in the first plac
in the
first place.
Starting a business is hard, and if you did a really sober - minded assessment of the risks and likely outcomes, you
'd probably
never get started
in the
first place.
The feedback you give — and the way you give it — can be the difference between a project everyone loves, and a project everyone wishes
had never started
in the
first place.
Other market participants evaluating the transaction said Icahn's move could indicate he may
never have aimed to broadly distribute the deal
in the
first place.
«What that is called is evaporation of liquidity, liquidity that was
never there
in the
first place and it's a typical maneuver that goes on
in the fragmented stock market we
have now,» said Joseph Saluzzi, co-manager of trading at Themis Trading
in Chatham, New Jersey.
Johnson left the film
in part due to James and even admitted that if she could do it all again, she
'd never direct the movie
in the
first place.
You'll
have to leave your comfort zone, perhaps even reaching out to contacts you
never knew well
in the
first place.
While this should
never have happened
in the
first place, Zuckerberg is grateful that her letter prompted the company's executives to take the situation seriously.
However, the government
has never publicly accounted for why it fired the health employees
in the
first place.
Credit Default Swaps are fraud, they should
never have been allowed to exsist
in the
first place.
One of the primary benefits is that they'll share their
first - hand experiences of living
in Mexico and introduce you to the communities they live
in...
places you
'd likely
never visit as a tourist.
If that's how other business was handled, it may mean that the attorney - client privilege Trump
has said is «dead»
never really existed
in the
first place.
Companies across the board will get rid of their bad mortgages, and also their bad car loans, furniture time payments, credit - card loans, student loans — all the debts that any competent actuary could
have told them
never could
have been paid
in the
first place.
I
have a lot of millennial friends who invested
in cryptocurrency and complain about its drop, and say they should
have never have gotten into it
in the
first place.
«The data collected from your users
never should
have happened
in the
first place.
Could it be that someone found a way to vastly increase the supply of gold without
having to go through the trouble of mining it — to dishoard and lease it from central bank reserves and then issue certificates against gold that
never existed
in the
first place?
Its official debt is unpayable, and
never should
have been forced upon it
in the
first place — under conditions where the Troika removed the elected prime minister from office to put
in their own technocrat (Lucas Papademos, who
had worked with Goldman Sachs to falsify the government's 2001 balance sheet to enable it to meet the eurozone's entry conditions).
At the very least, the Nielsen data makes a strong case for the theory that the time we allocate to consuming entertainment content is valuable
in direct proportion to its finitude and therefore may be better spent by side - stepping the advertisements for all those things we
've never had any interest
in buying
in the
first place.
Never mind that this is the same Conservative «plan» that contributed to Canada experiencing the only recession among major industrial economies so far this year. Claiming «victory» because GDP is growing again after a recession, is a bit like commenting on how good it feels to stop beating your head against the wall. Before popping any champagne, we
'd better pause to ask: why were we beating our heads against the wall
in the
first place?
It's a little aggravating when this happens to an industry that is working hard to clean up an image that it
never should
have had in the
first place.
So they can not loose what they
NEVER really
had in the
first place.
else if it
nevers moves, then I
would question why I thought there was a God
in the
first place.
Other people
would deny you existed and say that the man healed himself, or maybe say that he
never had the disease
in the
first place.
I
have no data to back this, but I presume that if someone were indoctrinated into religion and then escaped from it, they may be more likely to self identify as an atheist or agnostic and still score better than someone
never exposed to it
in the
first place, who might self identify as «nothing
in particular.»
You might
have been a bit young at 16 to begin thinking about service, but do you think that you
'd just stop helping others if you lost your faith tomorrow, or if you
never got faith
in the
first place?
How can we be forgiven by something that
has never existed
in the
first place?
I
would also presume that someone
never indoctrinated
in the
first place may
have had less interest
in studying other religious specificities
in an effort to explain inconsistencies.
Salvation comes by grace alone through faith alone
in Christ alone ----- Except if God
placed you
in a region on earth where christianity doesn't exist, then you
've never heard of Christ, and will likely go your entire life without learning the
first thing about him.
mormonism
never had anything to do with protestants
in the
first place.