Quickened

Slave to Christ, Quickened by His sovereign grace. Husband and father, wielding Scripture’s sword to glorify God alone (Ps. 119:42). Submitte scriptura.

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I am Quickened and I approve this message. 😆

Grok’s summary of @quickened2him’s doctrinal stance:

“He’s a no-system, Scripture-only guy who believes God sovereignly causes everything for His glory (classic theistic determinism), but he refuses to let anyone file him under Calvinism or any other label. Everything he posts circles back to the plain text of the Bible and God getting all the glory.”

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@subq Yeah. I’m noticing that. Not as injurious to toes as original sin or baptism… but the day is still young. 😉

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@MattJSchilling Again, this has ZERO bearing on what is true:

❌ How a belief makes you feel or what your personal interpretation or “discernment” claims.

❌ What the practical or emotional consequences of the belief would be.

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NEWSFLASH: The following have ZERO bearing on what is true:

❌ How a belief makes you feel or what your personal interpretation or “discernment” claims.

❌ Who else believes it or how popular the view is.

❌ How long people have believed it or what “has always been taught” according to tradition.

❌ What scholars, experts, or academics claim without showing it from the text itself.

❌ What the practical or emotional consequences of the belief would be.

These are all fallacies. They substitute human psychology, sociology, history, or preference for revelation. None of them establish whether something is actually true.

✅ Scripture is our axiom and the only source of all truth.

Let God be true though every man a liar.

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@subq You beat me to it! Agreed.

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@cbankston7 I’ve already stated my position multiple times. You’re just being evasive and dismissive.

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And this is the whole point of my post. Truth isn’t determined by anyone’s affirmation, denial, or “integrity.” Who cares if I think so? Show it from Scripture.

Claims about the Holy Spirit (just like everything else) must be tested by Scripture as the axiom. Whether someone affirms or denies them has ZERO bearing on truth (Prov 14:12; Isa 8:20; Ps 119:160; 2 Tim 3:16-17).

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@cbankston7 Does my affirmation or denial of your claim affect its truth? How would we even know?

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@cbankston7 Agreed. So by what standard do we test whether that claim is true?

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@MattJSchilling How do you know someone is “anointed” or not, and by what standard?

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@cbankston7 How do you know?

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@ManassehRJones 🎯 Wisdom.

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Of all the verses that I think are most egregiously taken out of context, this one is quickly rising to the top of my list 👇:

“Do we then abolish the Law through faith? May it never be! On the contrary, we establish the Law.” (Rom 3:31)

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Because they are not His sheep 👇

“But you do not believe because you are not of My sheep. My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me; and I give eternal life to them, and they will never perish—ever; and no one will snatch them out of My hand.”

— John 10:26-28

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@cbankston7 @churchtalkative Robots have nothing to do with it. Scripture says God created all things for His glory (Isa 43:7; Col 1:16; Rom 11:36). You can’t claim God’s goal in creation was relationship without smuggling in extra-biblical assumptions and philosophies.

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I never said God doesn’t desire relationship with the elect. I asked where Scripture presents “relationship” as His goal in creating humanity. (It says the goal is His glory 👉 Isa 43:7; Col 1:16; Rom 11:36.)

And Matthew 11:28 is an invitation. “Come to me…” tells the weary what to do. It’s an inference, not exegesis, to say God created us for relationship or that this was His purpose in creation.

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@ReignByHisWord @AletheiaHS Ditto

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@EddieJamro84189 Everyone loves to quote Paul until they get to where the willing and doing actually come from:

“For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.”

— Philippians 2:13

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@ReignByHisWord @AletheiaHS Well… it should be obvious. But I think far too many people read scripture like this: