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God isn't saying "anyone on earth who has committed any sin against Me is going to be blotted out of My Book"; God's statement regards, in context, the incident that had just occurred with His people. Moses' request is against the intentions of God regarding the sin His people had just committed.
No one was dead when the book was written. All were alive in Adam when he was created. All humanity was created on day 6 of creation. All humanity died when Adam died.
David said "in sin I was conceived", so all men would arrive on earth not in the book. There would be no later time in their lives when they would be removed. Again you're not reading it in context.
As stated, the Book is not mentioned except with regard to His people
I agree in the main with what you are saying here, still, the wording of the verse presents it as a "rule of thumb". No Moses, I'm not going to do that, because it's not what I do.
When are names put into His book?
When God says "No Mercy" and "Not My People" (Hos 1), it is clear that the status of "God's people" is that people to which God is merciful. That is why they are in His Book.
Moses never said "every man on earth is in the book", only that he was in it.
I've got to run . . . looking forward to continuing tomorrow, Lord willing!
That's true. What can you tell me about how the book was written? I know many people think that when someone is born again God writes their name in His book. I'm not thinking that's your view, but I'm wondering, what is your view about that?
I haven't thought about it--haven't had to (I've had other questions).
There's no other way to go about it. I wish all the other interactions on this thread were more like this interaction--instead, there has inevitably been a devolution into feces-tossing.
The same people told "you stand by your faith" are also told "if you disbelieve you too will be cut off".
No, it's not "a rule of thumb", as you mean it, because men sin all of the time, yet it was only then that the men who engaged in the particular act would be "blotted out". Surely their other sins had not escaped God's notice, any single one of which would (on your view) have resulted in their "spiritual death" long before then, and yet their names had, up until that point, still been in God's Book.
Yet, "if we walk in the light as He Himself is in the light we have fellowship one with another and the blood of His Son cleanses us of all our sins"--obviously, it refers to continuing in sin, as the Gnostic heretics had taught, and does not mean "Christians don't sin".
Yet, some do not abide in Him, nor His Seed/Word in them (Jn 15; 1 Jn 2:28), because they're led away by "idols" (1 Jn 5:21); the Christians who continue walking in this way are blotted out, their righteousness of faith is forgotten, they retroactively had never been saved.
"Boy", you also deny people who are explicitly said to have faith actually have faith.
John 10
