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Originally Posted by Brightfame52
jesus truth
Yes everyone loves darkness rather than light, everyone by nature. Listen to scripture Jn 3:19
And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.
Thats you and I by nature, though you will deny it !
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You have your Calvin glasses on. Try to take them off for a bit.
First, something Luther and Calvin didn't understand about is the Jews and how Jesus came first for them. Not all Jews, but the lost sheep of Israel. Lost sheep are the Jews who had faith in God before Jesus.
See Jesus was coming to make a new covenant that would be based on faith. Not all Jews had faith because the law was not based on it, it was based on the works of the law which are the purification works.
So the Jews who already had faith in God before Jesus came, those Jews now had to go through Jesus to remain God's...they were God's and now they had to believe in Jesus to remain God's. These Jews would hear what Jesus was saying and be drawn to him because they recognized what he was saying as the words of God.
The Jews who did not already have faith in God before Jesus came, they were cut off and hardened so that while Jesus spoke they could not hear and understand and be saved. Jesus came first for the Jews who already had faith in God they were the lost sheep. The Jews that were cut off and hardened and could not believe because they were hardened, they would be used to help get Jesus crucified as was the plan for salvation before the creation of anything.
So when Jesus came to whoever did believe, they would not perish...that is the lost sheep. Jesus told his disciples not to go to the Samaritans and Gentiles and, even though many of them heard Jesus and had faith in him, it was not yet time for them to be saved because those people were disobedient to God under the first covenant, for they never entered the covenant with God and did the purification works as God required, so the Samaritans and Gentiles might have had faith in Jesus when they heard him, but Jesus didn't die yet and so enforce the new covenant, the new testament with new laws. Jesus had to shed his blood to make the new covenant.
The Samaritans and Gentiles would get to be saved by having faith in Jesus and that Jesus' blood and not the blood of lambs purified them. They still had to obey Jesus and repent of their sins, they just didn't have to sacrifice animals anymore and be circumcised and do all the other purification works of the law.
Jesus said when he is crucified he would draw all men to him. That means all could come to him to be saved, even the cut off faithless Jews and the disobedient Samaritans and Gentiles.
16For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. 17For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved. 18He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. 19And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.
That is about the men who would not come to the light.
20For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved. 21But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God.
That is about people in darkness that want more out of life than to just do evil.
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