(November 2, 2015 at 10:28 am)dyresand Wrote:(November 2, 2015 at 1:30 am)snowtracks Wrote: Scripture teaches that unbelievers are trending towards salvation or blasphemy. Most likely, this trend is in a staircase that has ups and downs but overall trending towards one of these two exclusive possibilities. Both salvation and blasphemy have their own thresholds.
Salvation: When trending in this direction, the person is coming to an understanding of what’s required to inherit ‘eternal life’. That person recognizes what God requires (repentance, acceptance of God’s forgiveness, and surrender to God’s authority).
Blasphemy:* When trending in this direction, there is an ongoing animosity towards God (here again, maybe some trepid steps towards salvation’s direction but not enough to change the downward trend).
Thresholds - 1) Salvation, a person crosses over by accepting the Holy Spirit’s promptings towards humility and submission to God’s truth & grace.
2) Blasphemy, a person crosses over when the will of God in one’s life becomes so weak and the rebellion so strong it’s impossible for the individual to then reverse course; they havewillingly and permanently entered into eternal separation from God’s active influence.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfrWchX5rAU
Horse laughing is not working, but nice try though. http://www.nizkor.org/features/fallacies...icule.html. Those that haven't secured salvation are daily moving towards it, or blasphemy.
Atheist Credo: An universe by chance that also just happened to admit the observer by chance.