What does Ephesians 1:3-5 mean?

Question

"Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ:

According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love:

Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will,

To the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved." - Ephesians 1:3-5 KJV.

Answer 1

This is one of the best portions in scripture that shows Gods sovereign grace.Salvation is of The Lord, not of us,all the spirit. blessings(mercy,salv.Holy Spirit,ability to pray,eternal life,etc.) come from Him to his chosen ones out of the earth.Before He made the earth, he elected a certain people who would stand before Him holy and perfect because God beforehand gave them the spiritual blessings.These chosen ones are just adopted children,adopted by The Creator Himself.According to His will,the whole point of eph.1 is to show mans salv. is 100% The Lords doing according to the good pleasure of HIS WILL. Unfortionatly modern man does not want to receive this, even most christians are duped into thinking they have something to do with thier salv. HE CHOSE US we didnt chose Him. Jo. 15:16 Praise God were His adoped, blessed kids.

Answer 2

Let's see wht that says in modern english - Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, for he has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in union with Christ, just as he chose us in union with him before the founding of the world, that we should be holy and without blemish before him in love. For he foreordained us to the adoption through Jesus Christ as sons to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will,

This is talking about the ones who will be in heaven with Christ Jesus. The apostle Paul in his letter to the Ephesians speaks of Christians then living on earth as though they were already enjoying a heavenly position, being raised up and “seated . . . together in the heavenly places in union with Christ Jesus.” (Eph 1:3; 2:6) The context shows that anointed Christians are so viewed by God because of his having ‘assigned them as heirs’ with his Son in the heavenly inheritance. While yet on earth, they have been exalted, or ‘lifted up,’ by such assignment.
However, the assumption that God foreordained thousands of years before they were born specific individuals to receive this privilege conflicts with the fact that humans are endowed with freedom of choice. What God foreordained was a group, or class of people, not individuals.

Answer 3

Right now I am hald awake to really study out thses scriptures. But great scriptures. This is a predestined scriptures. Many do not understand that. John 3:16 says Whosoever will. Well lets just say in heaven when we see the gate we see on this side the words "whosoever will." Well as we go through the gate we look back and it says predestined.
Salvation is a whosoever will, but God knows who will and who want. Its verse 3 that needs to be looked at closer.

Answer 4

1st, it disproves the trinity.

We are to worship the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.

It is the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ that provides the blessing through in Firstborn Son (Eph 1:17)

That to worship the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, we must be without blame in our service to him.

Our worship of the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ must be holy and not filled with falsehood.

Our salvation is based on his good pleasure, and if we displease our God, he can remove that blessing. (Rev 3:3-6)

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Answer 5

It means that Jesus Christ is like an agent who adopts us as children of the Lord.
You have to remember that all non-Jews were Gentiles, pagans, before Christianity.
It is not a command to adopt children.

Answer 6

I asked this to.. the answer was.. God knew
he would send Jesus and choose to make
available to any that would believe in him
the opportunity to be included in his eternal
family, jesus is holy and without blame, and
when you accept him, you are considered just as
holy and blameless.

Answer 7

mild makes happen regardless of is interior the darkness. So a Holy Christian existence famous in evaluation the sinfulness of unregenerate lives. And suited words of rebuke famous sin in it particularly is genuine character additionally. The latter area of verse thirteen might extra suitable study: for regardless of is made happen is mild. This purely capability that as quickly as Christians exercising their ministry as mild, others are dropped on the sunshine. depraved adult adult males are introduced into little ones of sunshine in the course of the reproving ministry of sunshine. it is not a rule devoid of exceptions, of direction. no longer every person who's uncovered to the sunshine turns right into a Christian. even yet it particularly is a universal theory interior the non secular realm that mild has a vogue of reproducing itself. The existence of the believer might desire to continuously be preaching a sermon, might desire to continuously be exposing the encircling darkness, might desire to continuously be extending this invitation to unbelievers. (as above). it is the voice of sunshine chatting with those that are slumbering in darkness and mendacity in non secular dying. the sunshine calls them to existence and illumination. in the event that they answer the invitation, Christ will shine on them and supply them mild

Answer 8

Way to go, Pilgrim! I whole heartly agree.
We are chosen by the Father with no merit from us.

Answer 9

Just more of Paul's nonsense.

Jesus never taught any of this. In fact this is the exact opposite of what Jesus taught and stood up for.

Love and blessings Don