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Originally Posted by Connie
I don't understand, chette. How can anybody be saved by works in the millennium, when everybody else, including the OT saints, were saved by faith as Hebrews 11 says? It contradicts the whole message of God's word. Also, God barred the way to the tree of life in Eden so that sinners wouldn't eat of it and live forever -- but for some strange reason He will lift that ban in the millennium? Nothing in this scenario of the millennium you are giving makes any sense.
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Here is the Bible Definition of faith:
Hebrews 11:1 Now
faith is the
substance of things hoped for, the
evidence of things not seen.
If the Lord Jesus Christ is
ruling and
reigning here on the earth in a
physical,
visible, earthly Kingdom - where does "faith" play a part? Where is the "
hope" in "things not seen", if the Lord of Glory is dwelling on the earth? The people living on the earth during the Lord's reign are going to
SEE him - "
faith" is NOT involved if you can "
see" the
evidence!