Did Jesus Die on The Cross for The Just/Elect/Saved Whose Names Are Written in The Book of Life OR
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Your problem is that you somehow believe that Jesus dying for someone who rejects Him is going to lessen God's Sovereignty. It's the biggest load of bulk I have ever read and discovered by the Reformers.
We're talking about the Most High God who needs no one and requires nothing and is sustainable within Himself and Reformers think rejection is some how going to diminish Who God is.
It's such a stupid concept it takes dumb people to create it and literal puppets to believe in it.
They don't accept rejection because they do realize they haven't been able to change wrong into right.
It hard to understand how anyone can look upon Jesus' cross and conclude that God hates anyone, yet that's what many believe. But Jesus never said, "I hate you," to not even one of the centurions, nor even a pharisee.
You said elsewhere that you believe the Bible distinguishes between the mind, the heart, and the will as separate entities.
I do believe it does. But the point here is simply that man knows God exists. But knowing about God is a far cry from knowing God, which is the essence of eternal life.
How does eternity being set in men's hearts condemn them? I agree men know God exists, though
I do not necessarily agree that failing to seek Him is what condemns them. It is the suppression of
truth of God's existence which does that. Knowing God exists, and God knowing none truly seek Him,
it is still incumbent upon man to seek truth, which is embodied in Jesus Christ, Who has promised to
reveal Himself to those who are earnestly seeking. It is then we come to know Him, and not just of Him...
When I mentioned that eternity has been placed in man's heart, I was merely showing another avenue that God has given to reveal His existence.
Man himself comes into the world condemned already. The wrath of God abides on him. So I never meant to imply that the fact that he doesn't seek God is what condemns him. What I believe condemns man is his sin.
As I read Romans 1, I see the suppression of truth as the reason God gives people over to their sin. It is as if God stops striving with them and no longer refrains their sinful tendencies. This allows individuals to suffer the full consequences of their sinfulness and sin's repercussions. It is here that I believe man fits himself for destruction.
Perhaps the qualifier "unrepentant" might provide you the clue.
That is, if the only way to the Father is through Jesus, but one does not repent, which essentially involves turning back to God, but they try to go by any way but the only way... then what is there to wonder about if they end up lost?
You understand my answer but continue to ask, but it will not change just by repeating the question.