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RRufus replied to the thread Understanding God’s election.You are ignorant of the scriptures. God has many secrets that he hides from the human race! Deut 29:29 29 The secret things belong...
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RRufus replied to the thread Understanding God’s election.You really don't want to get it, do you? Context means nothing to you. You think God made his redemptive covenants with each and...
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RRufus replied to the thread Understanding God’s election.But under the Old Covenant there were no promises of effectual grace, whereas under the New there are plenty of such promises since the...
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RRufus replied to the thread Understanding God’s election.I broached this very topic not very long ago! If God's love is truly unconditional and his love for all w/o exception were true, then...
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RRufus replied to the thread Understanding God’s election.What you just stated in the bolded portion above is a clear affirmation of Isa 55:8-9! God truly does not think as we mere mortals do...
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RRufus replied to the thread Understanding God’s election.I didn't ask you that! I asked WHO was the prophet addressing!? You simply cannot give an honest, straightforward answer to easy...
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RRufus replied to the thread Understanding God’s election.BUT...the radically different covenants have everything to do with HOW God saves his chosen people.
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RRufus replied to the thread Understanding God’s election.I'm not saying that God doesn't speak to the unsaved through his scriptures. All I'm saying is that Peter's original audience in both...
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RRufus replied to the thread Understanding God’s election.I'm not saying that God doesn't speak to the unsaved through his scriptures. All I'm saying is that Peter's original audience in both...
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RRufus replied to the thread Understanding God’s election.And to whom was Ezekiel writing, if not God's chosen people? Also, my edits to your 2Pet 3:9 quote does not change the sense of the...
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RRufus replied to the thread Understanding God’s election.Yet at the same time, you think Peter also addressed the world in his second epistle. (Talk out of both sides of your mouth much? The...
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RRufus replied to the thread Understanding God’s election.The Jews were indeed very special! They were so special and so unique in the world that neither God or his chosen people ever...
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RRufus replied to the thread Understanding God’s election.Well then...the "us" pronoun makes things even more interesting since people think Peter was addressing the world. I had no idea Peter...
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RRufus replied to the thread Understanding God’s election."A "half believer" is a foreign concept in scripture. One is either lost or he is found! This is like saying that a woman is only a...
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RRufus replied to the thread Understanding God’s election.So, Peter, writing under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit erred when he called his brothers and sisters in the Lord "elect"?