Understanding God’s election
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YES! ... This is the crux of the whole matter:
God chooses to bless (save) some,
while leaving the rest to their own devices
and suffer the justice of God.
As the OP explains ... God has His reasons
for blessing (saving) some of fallen humanity.
#1 it shows His mercy and grace (unmerited favor)
as being a major part of His character.
God chooses to bless (save) some,
while leaving the rest to their own devices
and suffer the justice of God.
As the OP explains ... God has His reasons
for blessing (saving) some of fallen humanity.
#1 it shows His mercy and grace (unmerited favor)
as being a major part of His character.
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Jesus explained to Nicodemus that a man has to be born again in order to see the kingdom of God. Being born again means that you are in a different state of being. John 1: 13 Who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, not of the will of man, but of God. When Christ baptizes you with the Holy Spirit, you receive a portal through which both Father and Son enter your being and fill you with love for God first and all others as you love yourself. When you are filled with this love, you have been perfected because you will automatically be thinking and acting out of love. Being born again occurs by the will of God in order for us to be able to obey the Spirit of the Law (upon which the letter of the Law is based) as commanded by Jesus. The fruit of the Spirit is love. You don't have to do anything because everything will come naturally. That is what people have trouble understanding.
It just seems contradictory to say the blood of Christ was applied to A&E when you also say it was not implemented or consummated before the world was formed, simply because God covered them with animal skins, which was an interim measure foreshadowing the blood of Christ for the forgiveness of sins. Also, there is nothing denoting A&E's repentance in Scripture. If they were saved before they started having children, why were their children born as children of wrath? And why boot them from the garden so they could not eat also from the tree of Life if they were already saved? It just doesn't really add up, and it seems you are adding things to Scripture which are just not there.
That is NOT what you said....24 hours ago.
Did you want me to repost your comments? Cuz I will.
In fact, after I eat my bfast, I think that I will take care of it.
Just to keep you honest man.
So what's your game now? Moving the goalposts? Playing whack-a-mole with your Calvinista doctrine?
Shell and pea? Three card Monte?
And your statement that no man did, could, have, or desired to seek God.....is absolutely outrageous.
On the contrary God MADE A LIST of these men who DID seek God (and find Him) and HONORED them.
As well as honoring many others spoken of in Scripture like Daniel and his friends.
Calvinites always blow it as regards these critical matters.
For them, its all about forced conceptions (Mary), shotgun weddings (Church), and pre-programming the masses to condemnation.
Did you want me to repost your comments? Cuz I will.
In fact, after I eat my bfast, I think that I will take care of it.
Just to keep you honest man.
So what's your game now? Moving the goalposts? Playing whack-a-mole with your Calvinista doctrine?
Shell and pea? Three card Monte?
And your statement that no man did, could, have, or desired to seek God.....is absolutely outrageous.
On the contrary God MADE A LIST of these men who DID seek God (and find Him) and HONORED them.
As well as honoring many others spoken of in Scripture like Daniel and his friends.
Calvinites always blow it as regards these critical matters.
For them, its all about forced conceptions (Mary), shotgun weddings (Church), and pre-programming the masses to condemnation.
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