(John 1:12, 13, ESV) "No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him. ... (John 6:44, NRSV) "And he said, For this reason I have told you that no one can come to me unless it is granted him by the Father." ... If something could come to pass apart from his sovereign permission, then that which came to pass would frustrate his sovereignty. If God refused to permit something to happen and it happened anyway, then whatever caused it to happen would have more authority and power than God himself. ... Those motives have a certain weight with me, and the motives for or against ...

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One must know something of these trying years and the events at their close which issued in the return of the Jews to Canaan in order to understand the problems faced by this postexilic prophet. ... For one thing, during the seventy years in Babylon most of the exiles had come to consider it their home (cf. ... The First Message: A Call to Re-build God's Temple (1:1-15) 1.1 Introduction (1:1) The timing of this message which came from the Lord through the prophet Haggai, in the second year of Darius the king, on the first day of the sixth month, is important because this message is gi...

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One such argument comes to mind; eternal security. ... Those who ahold to this view, take this to mean once saved and apart of the body of Christ there is absolutely no way to lose their salvation. ... This view takes eternal life as something that has already been given, not something that will be attained after death. ... This argument mainly comes from one with an Arminian viewpoint; as a Calvinist has a different view on free will altogether. ... One way to look at this is, once you let Christ into your heart by choice, He chooses to stay and never leave. ...

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This was significant because humans could then convey information not by word alone. 3. ... This lowering of status was facilitated by a new tool, the ox-drawn plow. ... From this came other classes of people which implied that the economy was capable of producing a surplus. ... His wicked brother Seth stood for all of the bad things in life including the desert, nighttime, the foreigner, disorder, and warfare. ... During the Old Kingdom, everything prospered and many great things were achieved during this period. ...

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