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Carrie G

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About Carrie G

  • Birthday 12/16/1974

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    Nashua, New Hampshire USA
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    Learning about prayer, purpose of suffering, sanctification, Charismatic movement, John MacArthur books and sermons, reaching the lost, gaining wisdom from studying the Bible.

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  1. I am not very well versed in these subjects so all I can do is study further. Thank you for sharing your beliefs. I'm going to look further into scripture that supports predestination. I do know that not everyone will be saved. I am still leaning heavily towards God choosing us. John 15:16 New International Version (NIV) 16 You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you so that you might go and bear fruit—fruit that will last—and so that whatever you ask in my name the Father will give you. I still think Romans 9 is talking about the salvation of God's chosen people. He speaks about the elect when he says Jacob He loved Esau He hated. I can see though that you see through I different lens. John MacArthur said in a sermon I recently watched that Jesus must have purchased actual people with His blood not potential people. And Galatians 3:13-15 New Life Version (NLV) 13 Christ bought us with His blood and made us free from the Law that sinful man is not capable of saving himself. Romans 3:10-13 New International Version (NIV) 10 As it is written: “There is no one righteous, not even one; 11 there is no one who understands; there is no one who seeks God He also used Isaiah 53: 12 yet he bore the sins of many. meaning he died for particular peopl
  2. I guess I need sometime to study more before I feel peace that God couldn't save everyone. After all I don't deserve salvation any more than those who are destined to Hell. The Holy Spirit is going to have to help me. Maybe I just need to grieve over the world of lost sinners. Perhaps God will use this to give me courage to reach out to the lost.
  3. That was beautifully put. I must say I could not forgive others more than I understood that I was a sinner and forgiven because of what Jesus did.
  4. I guess I started with predestination from Romans 8:29 and then when I got to chapter 9 I read it as talking about salvation. Then when I read Romans 9:22-23 that God prepared some for destruction and some for glory, it just made sense that He already decided who would be His children. I'll admit it is painful to imagine God enduring vessels of wrath prepared for destruction. To think God offered salvation to all, but knew that only those He chose would heed the call does take time for me to digest. Still John MacArthur made a lot of sense to me when he explained that Jesus bought us with His precious blood, not just possible salvation to anyone, but that He purchased His elect.
  5. I didn't quite follow what you said about forgiveness, but I thought what you said about repentance was beautiful. Thank you.
  6. There are several plain points in that chapter where he is talking about who is saved. For not all who are descended from Israel belong to Israel. Romans 9:6 When he talks about Esau and Jacob he says : in order that God's purpose of election might continue, not because of works but because of him who calls Romans 9:11 And speaking of Israel he says only a remnant of them will be saved. Romans 9:27 I realize you have strong convictions about Calvanism, but I hope to share why it makes sense to me if it can be of any help to you. I also am new to my Calvanist perspective and am open to possible correction. I have a John MacArthur study Bible and all the notes on Romans 9 speak about salvation and it makes good sense to me how he puts it. In fact my understanding of limited atonement comes from John MacArthur. I grew up with an Armenian understanding of the Bible. So I am just grasping Calvanism. I am sorry if it appeared like I was shaming you with my large print. I truly am just not good with computers and couldn't figure out how I even got the text to come out so large.
  7. I think your missing the point of the chapter. Although, I can see where you would take it as service now.
  8. Thank you very much for your encouragement. I just listed to a sermon by him called The Atonement Real or Potential. It made a lot of sense to me. Especially John 10. I do stick mostly with John MacArthur when wanting to understand something better. As long as I am not fighting over what I believe I don't mind considering other angles.
  9. Okay, thank you for your patience with me. I do believe in limited atonement, but I am open to understand a different way of looking at it. I am praying for God to reveal more knowledge to us both. God Bless you.
  10. The beginning of Romans 9 starts with Paul being overwhelmed and deeply saddened that not all of Israel will be saved. He then goes into talking about God's sovereign choice to save. And not only so, but also when Rebekah had conceived children by one man, our forefather Isaac, 11 though they were not yet born and had done nothing either good or bad—in order that God's purpose of election might continue, not because of works but because of him who calls— 12 she was told, “The older will serve the younger.” 13 As it is written, “Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.” 14 What shall we say then? Is there injustice on God's part? By no means! 15 For he says to Moses, “I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.” 16 So then it depends not on human will or exertion,[b] but on God, who has mercy. I don't see this meaning service.
  11. So you believe it is possible that everyone may in fact be saved based on the fact that God is not willing that any should perish?
  12. So you believe that God predestined some for destruction and some to glory?
  13. I'm sorry, I'm not very well versed in the Bible and just trying to understand what it says. Do you believe everyone will be saved?
  14. Thank you for sharing. It brings back to thinking of myself before I knew I was a sinner and not a good person. The Holy Spirit deeply convicted me when I had an abortion. I went deeper in to drug use before I became broken and reached out to God. I definitely feared God's judgment and being exposed and vulnerable. Eventually I prayed to God for forgiveness. The condemnation lasted decades after though. I had a hard time believing in my heart of hearts that God forgave me. It took many sermons and Bible study on forgiveness.
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