This is absolute truth. There is no other way around this! People say, "That's not what the bible says -or- means!" So when did individual people get to change the meanings of words? look in your dictionary...what does it say? Websters dictionary says about predestinate: "destined, fated, or determined beforehand!
Luke 9:23 And he said to them all, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me.. Despite what we want to do, we are to teach the truth. when people hate us for this, they will symbolically speaking, crucify us by separating from us sort of like lepers...
Again, Luke 9:23 "And he said to them all, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me. "This means to do away with our desires to be rich, famous and loved! Man ever since the garden of Eden, has had one desire: to be popular, well liked, famous, wealthy and can never have enough! We want to be our own authorities. We want to have our way, the way we want it! So we MUST follow Christ by denying ourselves and what we want and obey the LORD's commandments
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