Both these passages are written to professing believers, not to humanity at large. 1 Thessalonians 4:3,7-8, 3 For this is the will of God, your sanctification.7 For God has not called us for impurity, but in holiness. 8 Therefore whoever disregards this, disregards not man but God, who gives his Holy Spirit to you.…
Luke 8:16-18, 16“No one after lighting a lamp covers it with a jar or puts it under a bed, but puts it on a stand, so that those who enter may see the light. 17 For nothing is hidden that will not be made manifest, nor is anything secret that will not be known and…
God the Father initiates salvation, God the Son both validates it at the cross and demonstrates it in His life, but it is God the Spirit who activates salvation in the lives of the elect. Or another way to put it is: God the Father purposed and decreed to save an elect people,…
John 1: 1-3, 1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 The same was in the beginning with God. 3 All things were made by him; and without him was not anything made that was made. So, is Jesus a true God? Isaiah 9:6…
Eternal God Joseph Smith said God was once a man, and not always God. “God himself was once as we are now, and is an exalted man, and sits enthroned in yonder heavens . . . I say, if you were to see him to-day, you would see him like a man in form–like yourselves,…