mark s wrote:shorttribber wrote:But, I'm asking if "The Love" (Agape Love) Of the Holy Spirit That is Communicated (Key Word) Communicated Through Him Alone, can be Operable Through an Unbeliever?
That is the Question I'm asking.
The way I understand things, God only indwells His children, and only by God indwelling us can we have His love working through us towards others.
I think John in his letters says that the proof that we are God's children is our love, therefore, that love that comes from God alone would only be in His children.
Does that make sense?
Love in Christ,
Mark
Ok then, Christ's own words Prove that a Believer (One who has God's Holy Spirit IN them at some point) CAN Fall Away.
Here is where he said it.....
Math 24
10 And then shall .........
many........ *be offended (*Fall Away), and shall betray one another, and shall hate one another.
11 And many false prophets shall rise, and
shall deceive many.
12 And
because iniquity shall abound,
the love(Agape Love) of
many shall wax cold.
13 But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved
Now mark, look at the meaning of the word "Love" as used in the verse quoted above, you will find that it is Only Used as "The Love of God" Agape.
Please compare in the Strongs between Greek #25 and #26.
Number 26 is The Love OF God, and can Only be FROM the Spirit of God DIRECTLY........This kind of "Love" is not in USE by Unbelievers, it Does Not Exist, Nor Can it Exist in Unbelievers.
This is the Kind of "Love" that Christ SAID would Wax Cold.
And Brethren would "Betray" their Fellow Brethren.
And That is "Apostasy".....Because "Faith Works by Love".....Agape Love
This is Christ Himself, describing a "Departure FROM The Faith" Wherein Agape Love is Replaced with Hate and Betrayal.
He spoke of That "Falling Away" AS A SIGN of "Those Days" that shall Precede the gathering of the Saints at His Coming.
The Wisest men have changed their Counsels and Resolves upon second thoughts, much more upon experience, and approaching evils not at first discovered. Rev. Herbert Croft, 1675
Where no counsel is, the people fall: but in the multitude of counsellors there is safety.
Find seven years of tribulation plainly stated in the Bible.