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To: Dr. Eckleburg
You need to know whom you have believed. And why.

I "need" to? I need this So I can be saved? Won't learning this take work? I'll need to do some study to be saved?

Maybe we "need" to talk about what "work" means.

216 posted on 11/03/2006 11:21:00 AM PST by Mad Dawg (Now we are all Massoud)
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To: Mad Dawg; ears_to_hear; Alex Murphy; HarleyD; 1000 silverlings; blue-duncan
Yes, you "need" to know whom you have believed. And you cannot know this on your own in any way. The Holy Spirit must open your eyes and ears to the truth and give you a new heart with which to believe.

I haven't seen you rebut the Scriptures I posted; you just offer skepticism.

"...the great trials that your eyes saw, the signs, and those great wonders. But to this day the LORD has not given you a heart to understand or eyes to see or ears to hear. I have led you forty years in the wilderness. Your clothes have not worn out on you, and your sandals have not worn off your feet." -- Deuteronomy 29:3-5

"And the LORD your God will circumcise your heart and the heart of your offspring, so that you will love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul, that you may live." -- Deuteronomy 30:5-7

"...to open their eyes, in order to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins and an inheritance among those who are sanctified by faith in Me." -- Acts 26:18

"I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; I will take the heart of stone out of your flesh and give you a heart of flesh." -- Ezekiel 36:26

"Blessed is the man whom thou choosest, and causest to approach unto thee." -- Psalm 65:4

"But after that the kindness and love of God our Saviour toward man appeared,

Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost;

Which he shed on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Saviour;

That being justified by his grace, we should be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life." -- Titus 3:4-7


266 posted on 11/03/2006 12:38:44 PM PST by Dr. Eckleburg ("I don't think they want my respect; I think they want my submission." - Flemming Rose)
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