It's like you don't understand how there can be saved and unsaved people in a church. There are multiple methods of repentance. We know this because the majority of times the Bible uses the term it refers to God repenting of something. Which specific passage are you referring to with this thought, I can't read your mind here. Sorry where was someone espousing passive belief? Where are you getting your definition from, some false teacher? Also where was someone espousing antinomianism?
Your overuse of captialization is noted, user. But you clearly have an arminian view and it's obvious to me certainly, and others very likely. You talk down to all others as if they were antinomians when you haven't even accepted the basic premises of how God operates. See for instance:
Acts 13:48 And when the Gentiles heard this, they were glad, and glorified the word of the Lord: and as many as were ordained to eternal life believed.
Philippians 1:6 Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ:
2 Corinthians 1:21-22 Now he which stablisheth us with you in Christ, and hath anointed us, is God; Who hath also sealed us, and given the earnest of the Spirit in our hearts.
See Matthew 19:26. It's like you left out the central message of all scripture and seek to lift up your works as the pinnacle of salvation instead of our Lord's righteousness.
2 Corinthians 5:21 For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.
Yes because all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God. Again, Matthew 19:26 please.
1)Again repeating the point which is already addressed. Nothing is shown in Galatians of Paul DISTINGUISHING between those Saved and Unsaved. They are LABELLED COLLECTIVELY.
2)again repeating the same point which is already addrressed. Repentance in Greek use refers to A CHANGE OF MIND. This is why God can 'repent'. Clearly how God 'repents' isnt the same thing as how sinners repent. Acts provide one example. The rebellious Israel are to TURN AWAY from their rebellion to God. That rebellion is definitely sin. period!
3)As long faith is active and NO CALVINISM is espoused, the Baptist view is inconsistent. Either one is some lifeless drone MOVED or one is an advanced determined automata. This opposes Galatians and Hebrews and so is contradictory but LESS than Baptists.
4)Just because Grace is not given based on merit does it entail DETERMINISM or CALVINISM. Philo is a good example of this. In fact Qumran which has NO SOLA FIDE or OSAS doctrine at all and is wholesale double predestination shows one can even have a determinist view WITHOUT the baggage of Baptist nonsense and Reformed thought at all. Hence using verses that emphasize God's agency is simply insufficient, especially when it is shown clearly Galatians entails the possibility of falling away(remains UNREFUTED) and the judgement according to works as Protestant CALVINIST scholar Simon Gathercole agrees with my point.
5)As noted in 4) and even by Gathercole himself, a strong sense of God's agency doesnt negate final judgement or even works salvation. God enables the works to be done.
6) 2Corinthians cannot HELP you because thanks to Calvinists like Douglas Moo, one can say that INITIAL JUSTIFICATION is in view in instances like these where it describes the entry into the New Covenant. After entry, WORKS ARE REQUIRED TO VINDICATE GOD'S DECLARATION! This ironically requires that good works are Salvific. Especially as Wallace, A CALVINIST notes, Faith in the NT that is salvific is enduring!
7)none of what is posted about judgement according to works in Matthew is engaged with
William Roberts
NT Greek vs Baptist eisegesis on Repent
1)repentance, turning about, conversion as a turning away μετάνοια ἀπὸ νεκρῶν ἔργων turning away from dead works Hb 6:1. Mostly of the positive side of repentance, as the beginning of a new relationship with God: ἡ εἰς θεὸυ μ. repentance that leads to God Ac 20:21. ἄξια τῆς μετανοίας ἔργα deeds that are consistent with repentance 26:20. Also καρπὸν ἄξιον τῆς μ. Mt 3:8; cp. Lk 3:8. βαπτίζειν εἰς μ. baptize for repentance Mt 3:11 (s. βαπτίζω 2a; also εἰς 10a). βάπτισμα μετανοίας Mk 1:4; Lk 3:3; cp. Ac 13:24; 19:4 (alt. λουτροῦ … τῆς μ. Just., D. 14, 1) χρείαν ἔχειν μετανοίας need repentance or conversion Lk 15:7. κηρύσσειν μ. εἰς ἄφεσιν ἁμαρτιῶν preach repentance that leads to the forgiveness of sins 24:47 (μετάνοιαν καὶ ἄφεσιν ἁμαρτιῶν διὰ … λουτροῦ παλλιγγενεσίας Theoph. Ant. 2, 16 [p. 140. 8f]); cp. 1 Cl 7:6. ἔχειν καιρὸν μετανοίας still have time for repentance 2 Cl 8:2. τόπον μετανοίας διδόναι give an opportunity for repentance (Wsd 12:10; cp. ἵνα μετάνοια δοθῇ Did., Gen. 169, 4; ἀφορμὴν μετανοίας καὶ ἐξομολογήσεως παράσχειν Theoph. Ant. 2, 29 [p. 170, 17]) 1 Cl 7:5. μετανοίας τόπον εὑρίσκειν Hb 12:17 (cp. μετανοίας τόπον ἔχειν Tat. 15:3). διδόναι τινὶ (τὴν) μ. (cp. Wsd 12:19; M. J. Brutus, Ep. 7) Ac 5:31; 11:18; 2 Ti 2:25; 16:9; cp. Hv 4, 1, 3; Hs 8, 6, 2; 8, 11, 1.
SO Baptists, can God, turn away from HIS DEAD WORKS? Can God repent to lead to HIMSELF? Can God turn to forgive HIMSELF of his SINS?
OF COURSE NOT! BUT THIS IS THE GOD BAPTISTS WORSHIP
Dylan Gutierrez
This guy man. Just keeps bringing up all these non-biblical points.
See
Ethan Ross
You Baptists are non biblical
Jeremiah Myers
In Acts 2:38 and 3:19, Peter preaches repentance like the OT prophets calling Israel to return (see 3:19; cf. 5:31; 8:22). In the immediate context, the people of Israel must repent for their corporate responsibility for Jesus’s death (2:23); but in its fuller Lukan context, the summons to repentance is appropriate for all humanity (e.g., 17:30; 20:21; 26:20), though, in that moment, Peter and his companions do not yet recognise this point (11:18). The biblical prophets summoned Israel to “turn” or “return” to the Lord (e.g., Isa 55:7; Jer 3:12, 14, 22; 4:1; 25:5; 26:3; Ezek 14:6; 18:21, 23, 30; Hos 14:1; Joel 2:12–13; Mal 3:7), which could even be summarized as their message (Zech 1:3–4).1204 Individuals also needed to turn from wickedness to righteousness (Ezek 33:14–16, 19), that is, change their lifestyle, not merely indulge in guilty feelings. Luke 3:11; 18:22 both show this by radical sacrifice of possessions for the sake of others which forms part of the answer of how to be Saved which is also the context of repentance in Acts(2:44-45)
Occasionally the Septuagint uses μετανοέω to express turning to the Lord ( Jer 8:6; 38:19 lxx [31:19 ET]; Joel 2:13; Isa 46:8),though it uses ἀποστρέφω (cf. Acts 3:26) far more frequently.The noun μετάνοια appears even more rarely (five times, all but one in the Apocrypha), though it seems to have more of a consistent association with turning from sin, particularly in later sources(i.e Sir 44:16; Wis 11:23; 12:10, 19). Apparently, however, usage had shifted by the first century; ἀποστρέφω appears just nine times in the NT(only twice in Luke-Acts) whereas μετάνοια and μετανοέω together appear fifty-two times, with a fairly consistent range of usage, including in Luke-Acts. Notice how this opposes the Baptist view of repentance which is simply changing ones mind and not turning away from sin. Sorry Baptists. It is and it requires more than just a mere confession of Christ as Lord and Saviour and includes the act of turning away from sin and sacrifices.
Liam Reed
discord?
Connor Green
I am going to give the gospel to my supervisor before she starts a new job. Pray for me to be emboldened by the Holy Spirit and to be able to reach her . Thank you
Anthony Rogers
Have done, and will do.
Andrew Ross
I did it. I preached the gospel to her. She was already a believer but I was able to share the "Bible Way To Heaven" video by Anderson. I'm gonna miss her.
