The New birth comes after hearing/believing the gospel

[TomL]

Thats why God sent him the Gospel to inform him of who saved him. We know he was already saved and had faith in the True God, and worked righteousness. No man can do righteousness as he did unless born of God 1 Jn 2 29

If ye know that he is righteous, ye know that every one that doeth righteousness is born of him.
Cornelius worked righteousness before he ever met Peter with the Gospel #1 Acts 10:2,4

A devout man, and one that feared God with all his house, which gave much alms to the people, and prayed to God alway.

And when he looked on him, he was afraid, and said, What is it, Lord? And he said unto him, Thy prayers and thine alms are come up for a memorial before God.

#2 Acts 10:34,35

34 Then Peter opened his mouth, and said, Of a truth I perceive that God is no respecter of persons:

35 But in every nation he that feareth him, and worketh righteousness, is accepted with him.

Sorry, but God sent him the gospel that he might believe in Christ and, as a result, be saved.

Acts 11:14 (NASB 95) — 14 and he will speak words to you by which you will be saved, you and all your household.’

 

[brightfame52]

Sorry, without faith in Christ, there is no salvation.

Salvation will give Faith in Christ. And not the false christ that died for all mankind making salvation possible

 

[brightfame52]

Sorry, but God sent him the gospel that he might believe in Christ and, as a result, be saved.

Acts 11:14 (NASB 95) — 14 and he will speak words to you by which you will be saved, you and all your household.’

Already discussed,

 

[TomL]

Did you read the post ? If you did, you just cant see the truth

Falsehood

Cornelius is clearly not saved before he hears from Peter

Acts 11:14 (NASB 95) — 14 and he will speak words to you by which you will be saved, you and all your household.’

You will be saved. Future tense shows Cornelius was not yet saved.

 

[civic]

Once again, there is no evidence Cornelius had fully known and believed in Christ

And

Acts 11:14 (NASB 95) — 14 and he will speak words to you by which you will be saved, you and all your household.’

Scripture shows Cornelius's salvation is future tense.

Exactly

 

[brightfame52]

Falsehood

You fail to understand the truth

 

[TomL]

Exactly

Yep, but that poster still imagines Cornelius was saved before he knew Christ.

 

[brightfame52]

Yep, but that poster still imagines Cornelius was saved before he knew Christ.

Well he knew and loved and feard the True God, he was a Just man Acts 10 22

22 And they said, Cornelius the centurion, a just man, and one that feareth God, and of good report among all the nation of the Jews, was warned from God by an holy angel to send for thee into his house, and to hear words of thee.

Being made Just God would give him more light Prov 4 18

18 But the path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day.

You think the Just man here is lost or saved ?

 

[brightfame52]

Life Before Faith: The Biblical Order of Salvation​

"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." 1 John 5:1

Everyone who believes the truth concerning the death of Jesus Christ for the sins of the elect is interested in what the Son of God has done on behalf of those who believe. One's believing does not enable him to attain the spiritual life provided for him, but his God-given faith enables him to experience the life Christ provided for him at Calvary. Attaining and experiencing life differ. Therefore, the subjective spiritual life causes the regenerated person to hunger and thirst for objective spiritual life, which is experienced by believing the objective message concerning the Person and Work of Jesus Christ. Spiritual life must be imparted in the passive sinner before he can experience the objective life of Christ's work at Calvary.

Being born from above and believing in Christ are completely different aspects of eternal life: (1) Regeneration is subjective; conversion is objective. (2) Regeneration is righteousness imparted in God's elect; conversion is belief by the regenerated one in imputed righteousness. (3) Regeneration is actual apart from the person's consciousness of it; conversion is his conscious experience of believing in judicial righteousness. Being born from out of the Spirit is life in the subjective sense. Faith in Christ is life in the objective sense.

This is the most common but unscriptural statement made today: "The sin of unbelief is the only hindrance to one's salvation." Unbelief is caused by the sin of depravity. Unbelief, although a negative word, is positive. It issues from a positive cause. Thus, the direct cause of one's unbelief is his own depraved will. Furthermore, if he is not one of Christ's sheep, he will never believe; thus proving that the experience of salvation is not left to the ability of depraved people to determine whether or not Christ shall have any objects of love. People are not believing because they are not Christ's sheep: "You are not believing, because you are not from My sheep" (John 10:26).

Life Before Faith: The Biblical Order of Salvation - W.E. Best

W.E. Best explains why spiritual life must be imparted before faith can be exercised, and why reversing this order destroys both regeneration and conversion.

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