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RRufus replied to the thread Understanding God’s election.God's love and justice were not the issue. The issue is God covenantal, conditional love for his elect and his holy hatred for ALL that...
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RRufus replied to the thread Understanding God’s election.It's only "|there and all through Scripture" for practitioners of eisegesis -- which I don't do because that is forbidden in scripture.
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RRufus replied to the thread Understanding God’s election.So, you don't like it when I do fair and balance and appeal to the WHOLE COUNSEL of God so that we can have a more accurate and true...
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RRufus replied to the thread Understanding God’s election.I don't see anything in your "proof texts" that speaks to God predestining his purposes. The foretelling aspect to prophecy has to do...
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RRufus replied to the thread Understanding God’s election.I don't recall reading anything that speaks to WHAT God predestines -- only WHOM he predestined before the beginning of time. Expand my...
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RRufus replied to the thread Understanding God’s election.To the best of my knowledge there is no scripture that teaches that God predestined any of his purposes. He predestines PEOPLE, not...
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RRufus replied to the thread Understanding God’s election.Correct. How could God love everyone on the planet with his covenant of love when the vast majority of its people God never knew...
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RRufus replied to the thread Understanding God’s election.In other words, we're all supposed to be content with half truths! When you say "It is better to understand... what you really mean is...
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RRufus replied to the thread Understanding God’s election.You still haven't answered Roger's question. Saving Faith does NOT come by star-gazing or contemplating this natural, temporal order...
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RRufus replied to the thread Understanding God’s election.Fat chance you have in getting a straight answer from any FWer. I've asked this very question a few times and either received no...
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RRufus replied to the thread Understanding God’s election.Quote me chapter and verse that says that God foresaw sinners' repentance and faith and as a REACTION or RESPONSE to that acquired...
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RRufus replied to the thread Understanding God’s election.It's all about the kind of love. Let's take a hypothetical: Your wife and another woman (someone you don't know) are being held...
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RRufus replied to the thread Understanding God’s election.Well then...you can do something God apparently cannot do. Did the Father love Jesus based on motivation that came strictly from within...
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RRufus replied to the thread Understanding God’s election.Hah...but did God predestinate his elect in eternity or in temporal reality? Election doesn't take place in space and time. It occurs...
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RRufus replied to the thread Understanding God’s election.Of course it does! Are you going to tell us that you love some child that you never met, never knew who lives 10,000 miles away from...