A statement declaring that the Jewish wedding protocol is in play as a necessary element that must needs be fulfilled to complete His action plan. Obviously.
A consideration far too abstruse and Jewish for you to comprehend it would seem.
Can We Really Exercise Free Will?
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A consideration far too abstruse and Jewish for you to comprehend it would seem.
No, He chose them for a reason! Are you suggesting that God does things for no reason?
You're back to "each saved person is individually a bride of Christ" rather than His singular church being His bride? Thought you saw the errors of your ways and moved on from that.
HeIs has said that quite a few times... and/or, "no good reason"... it is blasphemy.
But then she'll say she is defending God's character.
So much nonsense, so little time...
Nor does the verse say "to everyone who believes and doesn't believe. "Who believes" qualifies the extent of the power.
I presented all of the Verses in that conversation and ultimately Jesus said whoever believes and whoever comes but you don't want what Jesus said.
As though any here who hold to the Reformed Traditions have stated that no one makes a choice to believe and repent.
Those who believe have been called, and those whom He called He foreknew.
Christ is the power and wisdom of God to those whom God foreknew and called.
Those He foreknew, called, and justified, making His light shine in our hearts to give us the light of the
knowledge of God’s glory displayed in the face of Christ... knowledge which the world can neither receive
nor comprehend, and FWers largely and quite massively fail to understand with their self-exalting doctrine
which denies a plethora of Scriptures, causing them to reject, contradict and rewrite what they don't like in the Bible.
1 Corinthians 1 v 20-25 Where is the wise man? Where is the scribe? Where is the philosopher of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world? For since in the wisdom of God the world through its wisdom did not know Him, God was pleased through the foolishness of what was preached to save those who believe. Jews demand signs and Greeks search for wisdom, but we preach Christ crucified, a stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles, but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God. For the foolishness of God is wiser than man’s wisdom, and the weakness of God is stronger than man’s strength.
Yet here you are still trying to win. Apparently you're lost in your inability to actually win.
Are you a total stranger to God's effectual power in your life? You have never existentially experienced his awesome grace within your heart, mind and soul?
And when/if you "see Him face to face" be sure to quiz Him on what ever happened to your former most prized, most cherished, most beloved "freewill" now that you've stepped into eternity wherein all sinful choices will be forever banned so that all the saints will finally be perfectly "conformed to the image of Christ".
Better get the real ESV, for mine doesn't read the way you say!
Rom 1:16
For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek.
ESV
The "grace of God" consistently appeared to the ancient Israelites starting in Egypt and even through both kingdoms' exiles. How did that work out for the apostate Jews? (Rhetorical question!)
Ps 106:43
43 Many times he delivered them,
but they were bent on rebellion
and they wasted away in their sin.
NIV
Hos 13:6
6 When I fed them, they were satisfied;
when they were satisfied, they became proud;
then they forgot me.
NIV
But they never experienced that precious grace within their hearts and souls!