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RRufus replied to the thread Understanding God’s election.You wouldn't be able to exegete a passage if your life depended on it.
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RRufus replied to the thread Understanding God’s election.No doubt due to OT prophecy that predicted that the Messiah's "close friend" would lift up his heel against him (Ps 41:9). But was...
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RRufus replied to the thread Understanding God’s election.Yeah...unbelievers "hear" the same words but unlike the elect do not understand them (Rom 3:11) ! And I suppose you think that Peter's...
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RRufus replied to the thread Understanding God’s election.According to Jackson, when an unbeliever reads 1Pet 1:1 that addresses the "elect", the unbeliever has every reason in the world to...
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RRufus replied to the thread Understanding God’s election.Most of all with you; for you are the Master at Eisegesis precisely because you cannot accept the truth. So...you just make it up as...
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RYour will changed because God gave you a new heart. Just like Magenta, I was in my fifties when I turned to God. But, He knew me even...
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RRufus replied to the thread Understanding God’s election."How", you ask? By God's effectual grace! "ALL that the Father gives me, shall come to me". Does the text above say that goats hear...
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RRufus replied to the thread Understanding God’s election.But who effectually opens the door? Knocking doesn't save anyone but...door opening does, right? And then there is this: Rev 3:7 7...
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RRufus replied to the thread Understanding God’s election.Oh...so he rewarded godly people with kingship, did He? What about all the ungodly kings or rulers or officials God raised up? God...
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RRufus replied to the thread Understanding God’s election.And the reason God knows the end from the beginning is because he has decreed all things from before the foundation of the world. God...
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RRufus replied to the thread Understanding God’s election.The king chose not to because God was going to very shortly remove him from his throne. God raises up kings and sets them down, as he...
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RRufus replied to the thread Understanding God’s election.I did. What part of Dan 5:23 can't you understand? To deny that God held the king's ways in his hand, you would also have to deny that...
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RRufus replied to the thread Understanding God’s election.But your view on foreknowledge absolutely makes God's will contingent upon man's because God must FIRST learn what man is going to...
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RRufus replied to the thread Understanding God’s election.No, those verses say what they say. GOD DIRECTS man's ways! But they don't teach that God "forces" anyone. That is your own carnal...
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RRufus replied to the thread Understanding God’s election.God's will is not contingent upon man's. God work all things according to the counsel of his own will (Eph 1:11). God hates sinners...
