Scribe:Reprobate

Reprobate

Definition

By the rule of first occurrence we see that the definition of a reprobate is someone that God has rejected.

[28] They are all grievous revolters, walking with slanders: they are brass and iron; they are all corrupters.

[29] The bellows are burned, the lead is consumed of the fire; the founder melteth in vain: for the wicked are not plucked away. [30] Reprobate silver shall men call them, because the LORD hath rejected them.

— KJV, Jeremiah 6:28-30

And thou, Solomon my son, know thou the God of thy father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind: for the LORD searcheth all hearts, and understandeth all the imaginations of the thoughts: if thou seek him, he will be found of thee; but if thou forsake him, he will cast thee off for ever. — KJV, I Chronicles 28:9

Behold, he breaketh down, and it cannot be built again: he shutteth up a man, and there can be no opening. — KJV, Job 12:14

New Testament occurences

[28] And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;

[29] Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,

[30] Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,

[31] Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful:

[32] Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.

— KJV, Romans 1:28-32

We see also in the new testament that God can reject people and that then they are given over to a reprobate mind.

We can see also how we can recognize this reprobate mind [29-31]. Also notice that they are people who know about God and know about the sins that make you worthy of death but still they both do them and have pleasure in them that do them [32].

[5] Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates?

[6] But I trust that ye shall know that we are not reprobates.

[7] Now I pray to God that ye do no evil; not that we should appear approved, but that ye should do that which is honest, though we be as reprobates.

[8] For we can do nothing against the truth, but for the truth.

— KJV, II Corinthians 13:5-8

So a believer can examine himself or herself and know that he or she is not a reprobate. And the criteria is that Christ is in him or her [5]. If he or she has believed the Gospel then he or she has Christ within and is not a reprobate.

Now as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so do these also resist the truth: men of corrupt minds, reprobate concerning the faith. — KJV, II Timothy 3:88

We see that the reprobates are Jambres brethren.