you need to stop adding to scripture that which is not there and reverse what it states
Listen to the snail calling the worm slimy!
One must believe before having life, but you impart life before belief
Then you would accuse Christ and his apostles of adding to the scriptures and reverse what they teach according to your understanding, which can be proven to be against what the word of God teaches.
1st John 5:1~"Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is born of God: and every one that loveth him that begat loveth him also that is begotten of him.
Whosoever believeth~With much emphasis in this chapter on the identity of Jesus, faith is a gift from God~Philippians 1:28,29, etc. The universe exists for this great drama, but most men reject it, neglect it, or miss it, and could care less about it even if they knew it, without the new birth. God chose to display Himself to the universe through His Son to
save all His elect. Most men do not know why or even how they exist, what to do with life, or how to worship God. Without faith, God’s gift to His sons, we would believe the world’s destructive lies.
Only those born of God will believe, condemning all men.
That Jesus is the Christ~ We met with this fact about Jesus Christ the Son of God in the first verses (Ist John 1:1-3). We met with this fact about Jesus the Christ earlier against many antichrists (Ist John 2:22).
Jesus is the Christ = Jesus of Nazareth, Son of Mary, is God’s chosen Messiah and Son. The record given in the Bible is what we know and believe by faith (Matt 1:16-25). English
Christ is from the Greek
Christos, from Hebrew
Messiah (John 1:41; 4:25). The Messiah, or Christ, was known as Son of David and Son of God
made known to the elect only by the Father~(Matt 16:16). Thus, if we believe Jesus of Nazareth is God’s anointed Son, you have proof
by faith. Most do not believe, and there is little value trying to tell them of it (2nd Thess 3:1-2). Casting pearls before swines could be a dangerous practice, if not dangerous, they would see no value in those pearls.
Repentance to accept truth – or the creation of faith –
is God’s gift (2nd Tim 2:24-26). It is God’s elective choice that any have faith to believe (Ist Cor 1:18-31; James 2:5).
"IS" born of God~ Born of God = regeneration = quickened = a new nature by the Spirit to be sons vitally. This same writer made it very clear the sovereign power involved (John 1:12-13; 3:1-8).
Faith to believe Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, is proof a man is already born again. He that believeth [present tense; active voice] is born of God [perfect tense; passive]. Perfect tense is action completed [perfected] in the past and still true in the present~ “He has been born of God.”
We can prove this priority of action by John’s previous points (
Ist John 4:7 cp Ist John 3:14). Consider John’s other examples proving regeneration is before faith (
Ist John 4:15).
Unless a man is born again, he cannot see God’s kingdom, let alone its King (John 3:3). Being born again is God’s work, without human efforts, for us to believe (John 1:12). God’s work of grace in causing the new birth is like the sovereign wind (John 3:8). He that is of God – already born of God –
can hear and understand (John 8:43-45,47). As shown above many times~the sheep of Christ will believe ~ they do not believe to become sheep (John 10:26).
Only those already saved are able and willing to believe on Jesus (Ist Cor 1:18,24). The gospel is hid from others, for they are lost and blinded by Satan (2nd Cor 4:3-4). Faith is the evidence of eternal life and God’s gift, not the means thereof. (2nd Cor 2:14-17; 2nd Thess 3:1-2).
More to come on this one point.
theology foreign to scripture
