Romans 8:20 as the answer to why anyone is here. We did not choose to come: the creature was made subject unto futility, not by its own will, but by the will of him who subjected it - and in hope, that it will be set free from this bondage to corruption and obtain the glorious liberty of the children of God. Neville presses the question of who subjected whom and answers that God subjected himself: he sank himself in us and then subjected himself to disobedience, that he may have mercy upon all. Before the subjection we were innocent and unreflective, sleepwalkers who proceeded without knowing that we perceived; now we proceed and know as we proceed, and in that freedom we make mistakes - and he offers the comfort that we had to make them. God's gifts and his call are irrevocable, so not one being could be lost.
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Romans 8:20 | the creature was made subject unto futility, not by its own will, but by the will of him who subjected it, in hope that the creature will be set free from this bondage to corruption
Romans 11:29 | God’s gifts and his call are irrevocable
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we were like sleepwalkers, we proceeded without knowing that we perceived
not one being could be lost
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LectureThe Supreme Ideal
But you and I, on the wheel of recurrence, when we were made subject to it—listen to it again
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LectureThe Supreme Ideal
The creature was made subject unto vanity, unto futility, not willingly but by reason of the will of him who subjected him in hope that the creature would be set free from this bondage to decay, and obtain the glorious liberty of the sons of God
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LectureProphetic Blueprints
we move from receiving the promise to receiving what is promised, and we pass through hell. That is the Hades through which Christ passes after the crucifixion.
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All was foreshown me, what could I foresee, when I learned how the wind would sound after these things should be.
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LectureAdvent: The Four Tears
And the creature was subjected unto futility… not of his own will but by the will of him who subjected him in hope; for the creature will be set free from his bondage to decay and obtain the glorious liberty of the children of God
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LectureUnless I Go Away
you and I did not choose to come here; we were innocent, and we were unreflective, we were like sleepwalkers, we proceeded without knowing that we perceived.
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LectureUnless I Go Away
it was God, through his acts, who subjected all men to disobedience, that he may have mercy upon all
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LectureUnless I Go Away
the creature was made subject unto futility, not by its own will, but by the will of him who subjected it, in hope that the creature will be set free from this bondage to corruption, and obtain the glorious liberty of the children of God.
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