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To: pgyanke

Before you say Hogwash - go back and read the parable of the soils again. Jesus categorizes different types of people. Some will hear the word and accept it but fall away quickly, some will accept it but will be pulled away by worries of this world, and some will accept it and will perservere in the faith.

Jesus commanded us to be born again or as some translate it to be born from above. That is a supernatural occurance where a person becomes a new creature as the Bible describes it. Jesus also said in the parable of the Good Shepherd that those that are truly His hear His voice and follow Him and no one can snatch them out of His hand.

There are true believers that have been born again who will never truly fall. They may stumble from time to time as all humans do, but a person who has a spritual new birth is indwelt by the Holy Spirit and will never lose their faith.


119 posted on 03/09/2011 8:37:41 AM PST by Turtlepower
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To: Turtlepower

You completely ignored my post to you. What then do you make of Lucifer and Adam? Were they created by God with a design flaw?


120 posted on 03/09/2011 8:41:23 AM PST by pgyanke (Republicans get in trouble when not living up to their principles. Democrats... when they do.)
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To: Turtlepower

Well said! The Parable of the Sower is not speaking of believers and those who are indwelt with the Holy Spirit when it speaks of those who “fall away”. A careful reading of that passage in context makes that clear.


140 posted on 03/09/2011 10:49:10 AM PST by JLLH
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