An Article on free will

[brightfame52]

@MTMattie

For me, the blood of Christ is the means of atonement for sin.

This right here is error, its the atonement, His Blood made atonement, reconciled them He died for even when enemies Rom 5:10

10 For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life.

If you dont believe that, you dont receive the atonement Vs

11 And not only so, but we also joy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have now received the atonement.
The atonement and the reconciliation are one and the same

The phrase “blood of Christ” is used several times in the New Testament and is the expression of the sacrificial death and full atoning work of Jesus on our behalf. References to the Savior’s blood include the reality that He literally bled on the cross, but more significantly that He bled and died for sinners.

Did He do that for all sinners or only the elect ? And did the blood redeem them ?

Not only does the blood of Christ redeem believers from sin and eternal punishment, but “His blood will make our consciences pure from useless acts so we may serve the living God” In Hebrews 9:14 we are told "how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without blemish to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?"

Did His Blood redeem believers from their unbelief and then purify their conscience from dead works to serve the living God

This means that not only are we now free from having to offer sacrifices which are “useless” to obtain salvation, but we are free from having to rely on worthless and unproductive works of the flesh to please God.

So do you believe the Blood of Christ actually saved them He shed it for, gave them the forgiveness of sins ?

 

[TibiasDad]

If its an action its a work

No, trust is not an action as keeping the law. Believing is an inward awareness that something is true and worthy of living in accordance with. By believing, he forgives us and indwells us, and then we can act in accordance with what we believe.

Works, as in human actions keeping a commandment with the attitude that this act makes me worthy of being saved, are not the means of salvation. But believing what God says, which includes believing that we are not worthy of being saved, regardless of what we have done, but that God wants to save us anyway.

Belief is not a work of law! Works of the law, not human actions in and of themselves, are incapable of saving, but the act of believing can and will! Believing is not an act of keeping the law, but an act of faith that God will do what he has promised.

Doug

 

[Kampioen]

You sound confused. Im not trying to untwist all your confusion

Did God predetermine the nonelect? They you are saying it is God's work, not man's.