Crazymanw00t said:
Please! If Jesus Choosen Jews only then why you are a Christian?
Because "chosen people" and "saved people" are two different groups. There are some of God's "chosen people" (Jews) who are also "saved people". There are special promises and blessings that are for the Jewish people only. For example, the Promised Land is for the Jews, not Christians.
You are missing my point. God's choosen people is anyone that believes in Jesus Christ and that means you are his choosen people. Is that clear?
God accepts every one who freely accepts Jesus Christ as personal Savior.
You have the holy spirit inside you to understand Jesus Christ. If you don't have a Holy spirit then you will never understand Jesus Christ or reject him.
Prior to salvation, the Holy Spirit convicts the unsaved person from the "outside".
Upon the moment of salvation (when the sinner accepts the Savior), the Holy Spirit indwells (enters and lives in) a born-again Christian, and stays permanently in that person thru life. Then, the Holy Spirit
continues to work in the Christian's soul, to give understanding of the Bible, give strength and comfort, and to convict about sin.
How can you command the holy spirit to come in your body?
No person can "command" the Holy Spirit to enter. Remember, Jesus "sent" the Holy Spirit to believers. When a person becomes saved, the Holy Spirit enters to stay.
...Jesus Christ died on the cross for those names and nothing else than book of life.
Jesus died for all people. He offers salvation to each person. Each person decides whether or not to accept that offer. If that person accepts Jesus, then that person's name stays in the Lamb's Book of Life. If the person rejects Jesus as Savior, then that person's name will not be in the Book of Life.
It means Jesus Christ will preserve the names from the book of life.
Yes,
a person is born again ("saved", "converted"), that name cannot be erased from the Lamb's Book of Life. There is no power that can erase that name.
It is obviously that you believe in free-will and can you please give me the verses for that free-will theory thing.
I thought that I and previous posters had already done that? (Maybe it was another thread?) Let me review the other posts, and then I will post mine. In the meantime, remember, many times the Scriptures say, "whosoever
will"--that is using free will to decide.
BTW, "free-will" has been around a lot longer than TULIP.
BTW, I am not "anti-Calvin." I don't agree with
Calvinism but I believe Calvin was a godly man. However, Calvin was a
man, and men are imperfect.