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I know I will get jumped on by some of you, I hope I can take it.  But some
of the things I type here are for instances, BUT could really happen in real
life.  I have seen some situations simular.  So please be fair when you
comment on my unsaved thinking, or what ever you will call it.

        <snip>First, let's take your point about "with God all things are
possible" -
        .....God is all knowing, and He knows ahead of time who would accept
the
        truth
        *and follow thru* with getting baptized in Jesus name, filled with
the
        Holy Ghost.

If you believe this, then why do we have to even go out and witiness to
people.  God knows who is going to be saved.  So we have no work to do then.
Right?  No Wrong!!!  God gives us freedom of choice.  If for some reason
there is a person in my life that I am suppose to speak something to and I
don't, say out of intimidation.  Maybe this is a mean person who is very
abusive either physically or emotionally and I am afraid to deal with it.  I
am being disobedient to God for not speaking what he wanted me to and that
person's salvation is delayed because of my disobedience.  God has given us
all free will.  He will not overstep that boundry.  He will not force any of
us to serve or be obedient to Him.
But I suppose you will say that God knew He couldn't trust me so He told so
in so to witiness.  Well you get right back into Why witiness at all God
KNOWS  what everyone is going to do.  Also you have satan himself throwing
fiery darts to get us to fall.
God can prevent anyone from dying He can even raise the dead.  That doesn't
mean He is going to.  Get real this is LIFE.  We have **all** fallen short
of the glory of God.  We have **all** sinned since we have been saved.  If
you say you have not then you are lying.  What if you went into a state of
oppression, sinned and had not repented over it yet  and get hit by a car.
Do you think that God is going to spare your life just long enough so you
can repent and make it right, and then take you on home.  Just because we
are *saved* doesn't give us the right to be self righteous.  We have to live
a certain way.  If we do not we will suffer the consequences.

        Second, the one thing that *is* impossible for God to do is lie -
        .......so when Jesus said that in order to make it to heaven we
*must*
        believe that He is the one true God in the flesh, and we *must* be
baptized in     His name and filled with His Spirit, and we *must* endure
till the end, is             absolutely true and not just an "option", to
say that there are those who can still be saved without obeying His "musts"

Mark 16:16
16 He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth
not shall be damned.
It says that if you don't believe you will be damned.  It *does not* say
that if you are not baptized you will be damned.  BUT I do agree that you
*have to be baptized*  I don't believe that it is for EVERY case.  God is
God,  man is not God, we cannot even think of making those decisions.

Matt7:1-2  **Notice verse 2  Don't just read one and run with it.  You judge
every time you say someone is unsaved.  They could (it could happen) be
having a BAD day when you see them and say they are unsaved when in fact,
they could have been in church longer than you, and has went off the deep
end for the first time in their saved lives.**
1 Judge not, that ye be not judged.
2 For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure
ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.

John 1:12
12 ^But as many as received him,^  **to them** gave he power to become the
sons of God, *EVEN* to them that believe on his name:

Mark 9:23,24
23 Jesus said unto him, **If thou canst believe, all things are possible to
^him that believeth.^**
24 And straightway the father of the child cried out, and said with tears,
Lord, I believe; *help thou mine unbelief.*


Matt 18:6,7
6 But whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it
were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he
were drowned in the depth of the sea.
7 Woe unto the world because of offences! for it must needs be that offences
come; but woe to that man by whom the offence cometh!