PsychoticEpisode
Well i will say right away that you do not know what your state of belief or unbelief will be upon the moment of your death. But lets just say that you are doomed from the foundations of time.
No matter if one is saved or if one is doomed one still serves a purpose by being part of history.
It may be that your purpose is to come in here and ask questions so that they can be answered, Not for your benefit, But for another true seeker who are reading threads started by you. I know that not everyone who comes in here actually posts here. Many of the people i am righting to i will never hear from. You see a question (no matter what the motives of the questioner) is an opportunity to give an answer to a wider audience.
Romans 9
22 What if God, wanting to show His wrath and to make His power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath prepared for destruction, 23 and that He might make known the riches of His glory on the vessels of mercy, which He had prepared beforehand for glory,
Often it is the vessels of wrath (unbelievers) who unintentionally cause vessels of mercy (saved sinners) to be motivated to accept Jesus as Messiah.
God is your friend, But it is your decision to either befriend God and accept His mercy (Jesus) or reject God and have no realtionship with Him. It takes two to tango.
2 Peter 3
9The Lord is not slack concerning His promise, as some count slackness, but is longsuffering toward us, not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance.
God desires you and all people to come to repentance and not perish. But God will not save one who does not come to Him. Just because God already knows who will and who will not accept Jesus as Messiah, does not take away that decision from each individual.
You come into existence at the moment of conception. pre-existence is a mormon belief it was their "logical" (carnal) way of trying to understand scripture. it just does not fit scripture.
Re-incarnation is a hindu thing. You only going to live in this flesh once. More logic of man trying to make sense of something that Only the Holy Spirit can reveal.
Hebrews 9
27 And as it is appointed for men to die once, but after this the judgment,
Thanks for giving me this opportunity to post an answer.
All Praise The Ancient Of Days
Well i will say right away that you do not know what your state of belief or unbelief will be upon the moment of your death. But lets just say that you are doomed from the foundations of time.
No matter if one is saved or if one is doomed one still serves a purpose by being part of history.
It may be that your purpose is to come in here and ask questions so that they can be answered, Not for your benefit, But for another true seeker who are reading threads started by you. I know that not everyone who comes in here actually posts here. Many of the people i am righting to i will never hear from. You see a question (no matter what the motives of the questioner) is an opportunity to give an answer to a wider audience.
Romans 9
22 What if God, wanting to show His wrath and to make His power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath prepared for destruction, 23 and that He might make known the riches of His glory on the vessels of mercy, which He had prepared beforehand for glory,
Often it is the vessels of wrath (unbelievers) who unintentionally cause vessels of mercy (saved sinners) to be motivated to accept Jesus as Messiah.
God is your friend, But it is your decision to either befriend God and accept His mercy (Jesus) or reject God and have no realtionship with Him. It takes two to tango.
2 Peter 3
9The Lord is not slack concerning His promise, as some count slackness, but is longsuffering toward us, not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance.
God desires you and all people to come to repentance and not perish. But God will not save one who does not come to Him. Just because God already knows who will and who will not accept Jesus as Messiah, does not take away that decision from each individual.
You come into existence at the moment of conception. pre-existence is a mormon belief it was their "logical" (carnal) way of trying to understand scripture. it just does not fit scripture.
Re-incarnation is a hindu thing. You only going to live in this flesh once. More logic of man trying to make sense of something that Only the Holy Spirit can reveal.
Hebrews 9
27 And as it is appointed for men to die once, but after this the judgment,
Thanks for giving me this opportunity to post an answer.
All Praise The Ancient Of Days