Emmanuel Bamise

Believer||FUTA||Aspiring mechanical Engineer||Man city fan💙

[Gideon Odoma @gideonodoma]

EMBRACE IT
Abandoning church/Christianity so you can stop feeling guilty about the things Scripture forbids is like crossing the road with earplugs and a blindfold to "erase" the sight and sound of oncoming traffic.
The truth is the truth. But it can either help you or hit you. Embrace it, and it helps you. Ignore it, and, well... please don't.
Face it.

[Emmanuel Bamise @emmanuel_b44061]

@DanielIbitayo Yh

[Emmanuel Bamise @emmanuel_b44061]

@KingdmHeritage Happy birthday sir

[Ìbítáyò Daniel Tèmilolúwa @DanielIbitayo]

No words, just a repost.

[Dáfídì @dejitowoju]

It's pure nonsense.

It fails both logical and doctrinal tests.

Logical
1. Femi Lazarus asserts that Esau had all odds against him but Jacob had it all easy. That's not true. In fact, the reverse is the case. Jacob had all odds against him, he was even born holding on to the heel of Esau. In fact, his name was called Jacob, meaning supplanter.

2. In addition to #1, the blessing was naturally Esau's but because he was godless and without self-control, he lost it to Jacob. Jacob was the fighter, Esau was the "relaxed" one.

3. After he did this, God dealt with Jacob so much that he was cheated: another woman was given to him, his wages were not given to him. In fact, when Pharaoh later saw him, Pharaoh said he looked older than his age.

4. Jacob fought God to receive the blessing. He wrestled until his hip socket was dislocated, that was not an easy life. God loved Jacob, and he disciplined him severely.

So, the blessing was naturally Esau's. Femi Lazarus made it sound like it was not, and Esau had to struggle because all odds were against him. No, Esau caused the kasala.

Was Jacob a perfect example? Absolutely not!

Doctrinal
It's scripturally immoral to use Esau as an example of what a Christian should be like. Saying "some of you are Esaus" should never come out of a bible teacher.

Why? Let's see what the Bible says about Esau.

Hebrews 12:16-17:

"See that no one is sexually immoral, or is godless like Esau, who for a single meal sold his inheritance rights as the oldest son. Afterward, as you know, when he wanted to inherit this blessing, he was rejected. Even though he sought the blessing with tears, he could not change what he had done." (NIV)

Esau is the one the writer used as the typical example of lack of self-control and godlessness. We are warned never to be like Esau. That's what the Holy Spirit is saying to the church. So, if your pastor is advising you to be like Esau and be successful against all odds, the Holy Spirit doesn't see any success in Esau.

What then is success? It is doing the will of God.

[Judah Olorunmaiye @JudahMaiye]

Being hated for speaking the truth is a badge of honour.

Those loved for speaking lies should be the shameful lot.

And for those who would rather play safe and feign neutrality in the hope of remaining a darling to both light and darkness, we already know how it ends; the lukewarm and passive will eventually become useful tools in the hands of destructive darkness.

[Lekan Olayinka @lekan_olayinka1]

Bro, I will address this, hopefully, later.

But limiting the salvific work of Christ in the atonement can be justified only by philosophical treatises, not by the Holy Scriptures.

I will not even touch the New Testament yet.

Right from the messianic echoes in Isaiah, telegraphing the Suffering Servant and His universal salvific mission;

a clear picture of the universal scope of the atonement was foreshadowed.

Consider the following:

Isaiah 42:1–4: The Servant will bring forth justice to the nations. The coastlands will wait for His law.

Isaiah 42:6: God appoints Him as a covenant for the people and a light to the Gentiles.

Isaiah 49:3: The Servant is identified as Israel, God's servant.

Isaiah 49:5–6: His mission is to restore Jacob, but that is not the limit of His assignment.

God declares that it is too small a thing for Him merely to restore Israel. He will also make Him a light to the Gentiles, so that God's salvation may reach the ends of the earth.

Isaiah 52:10: The LORD makes bare His holy arm in the sight of all nations, and all the ends of the earth shall see the salvation of our God.

Isaiah 52:15: He will sprinkle many nations, and kings shall shut their mouths because of Him.

Isaiah 53:6: The LORD lays on Him the iniquity of us all.

Isaiah 53:11–12: The righteous Servant will justify many and bear their iniquities.

See, the salvific efficacy was in the universal sphere of humanity.

The domain of the redemptive mission of Isaiah's Suffering Servant was universal in scope.

And I understand the Lombardic maxim of universal sufficiency and elective efficiency.

But that's a philosophical formulation which doesn't reflect scripture's redemptive architecture.

Subsequently, if we fast-forward to explore the parabolic landscape of Jesus' teachings;

the salvific portrait Jesus painted did not divide those who would benefit from salvation into a pre-elect and non-elect class among those who were generally called.

Rather, the two broad categories that consistently emerge in the unfolding of the redemptive narrative are Jews and Gentiles.

And this was foreshadowed in Isaiah, where the Servant was both representative of Israel and the one through whom the Gentiles would receive salvation.

In Jesus' parable of the net, the net was cast into the sea and gathered fish of every kind (Matthew 13:47–50).

In His parable of the sower, the seed was sown broadly. The word of the kingdom went out, but it was received differently by different hearers (Matthew 13:1–23).

They received the same message, but its effect differed according to how they received it.

The efficacy of the message was not restricted to a preselected group.

Rather, its saving benefit was experienced through faith.

Consider Hebrews 4:2:

"For unto us was the gospel preached, as well as unto them: but the word preached did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in them that heard it." (KJV)

They heard the same gospel, but it did not profit them because it was not received with faith.

Of course, you might say God ordained them to have faith so they would be saved.

Then you enter the Calvinistic rabbit hole, where I would then ask you who ordained Adam to sin.

You should be careful how you answer because even John Piper called it a "very difficult problem".

And do not appeal to mystery because Scripture never did.

Therefore, limiting the efficacy of the atonement to a select group may be a theological conjecture developed along the Augustine-Calvin-Reformed pipeline, but Scripture does not support it.

Not the Old Testament messianic shadows, not the parabolic kingdom teachings of Jesus, and certainly not the Pauline and Petrine declarations of God's universal salvific intention in the epistolary corpus.

1 Timothy 2:3–4

For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour;Who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth.

[Emmanuel Bamise @emmanuel_b44061]

@Demon_Bulldozer @DanielIbitayo Nope

The died for all, doesn't mean all would be saved. That's where free will comes in. The atonement was made accessible for all but it would only be useful for you,if you believe in Him. He wants all. Universalism says all would be saved whether they believe or not

[Emmanuel Bamise @emmanuel_b44061]

@Demon_Bulldozer @DanielIbitayo You explained it by your light doesn't make it right .

All is all.
Checking across different writers of the new testament and even from the old you would see the mind of God in all clarity that all means all in intention

[Emmanuel Bamise @emmanuel_b44061]

@Demon_Bulldozer @DanielIbitayo 2 Corinthians 5:14–15: "One died for all, therefore all died; and He died for all, that those who live should live no longer for themselves..."

[Emmanuel Bamise @emmanuel_b44061]

@Demon_Bulldozer @DanielIbitayo John 1:29 Jesus takes the sin of the world.
John3:16 He died for the world.
1 Timothy 2:4-6 God desires all should be saved. If that isn't the case,there won't be need for evangelism

[Emmanuel Bamise @emmanuel_b44061]

@Demon_Bulldozer @DanielIbitayo Paul in Gal 2:20 speaks in such sense, as though Christ died for him alone but you know that Christ also died for others.

[Emmanuel Bamise @emmanuel_b44061]

@Demon_Bulldozer @DanielIbitayo What does Verse 9 of John 10 say

Reading John 10 in context and try to see the communication of our Lord Jesus Christ and see what he was communicating. You would tend to see that Christ died for the sheep doesn't mean he died only for the sheep

[Emmanuel Bamise @emmanuel_b44061]

@Demon_Bulldozer @DanielIbitayo What does Titus 2 :11 say sir?

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@RealDonaldDoo Gbam

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@BeansCFR @awesome_fav @RealDonaldDoo @moakabash It seems to be a comprehension problem here then

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@JayJay_EssexBoi @PoojaMedia Checking ballon dor history criteria isn't measured the same way.

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@DelaReigns @kriticalstorm @Wizarab10 Why did you draw it affect him materially, because you were on the right part before in interpretation. So,is Elon musk poor by your definition

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@DelaReigns @kriticalstorm @Wizarab10 What gave the interpretation that poverty is statebof man's spirit

List scriptures that support your claim sir