Chosen by God - A study in Election
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you totally misunderstood a post I made today
right. maybe it isn't everyone else.
nothing to see here. best maybe to do what you want within the TOS and so will everyone else
I know all about how people argue here and you are no exception
I think it best I just leave off responding to any of your posts. it's for the best
Not according to scripture:
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"And all who dwell on the earth will worship the beast—all whose names have not been written from the foundation of the world in the Book of Life belonging to the Lamb who was slain."
And those who dwell on the earth whose names were not written in the Book of Life from the foundation of the world will marvel when they see the beast that was, and is not, and yet will be.
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Simply put, God wrote all of the names of those He had chosen in the book of life before the world even began. Likewise, there were names that were not written in the book of life before the world began.
There is no scriptures that teach that every persons name was written in the book of life and then blotted out. It would go against what the scripture above is stating, which is that their names were never even written in the book of life.
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"Like them, he who overcomes will be dressed in white. And I will never blot out his name from the Book of Life, but I will confess his name before My Father and His angels."
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If we reverse the scripture above, those who do not overcome with their garments remaining soiled, their names can and will be blotted out of the book of life. As believers in Christ, even though we have been chosen for salvation, we still need to have faith. We are saved by grace through faith. Therefore, faith is our part. If we soil our garments by going back into the world and willfully live according to the sinful nature and die in that state, then the Lord can and will blot out those names.
But getting back to the issue, only the names of those whom God chose from before the world began were written in the book of life. Those whom He did not chose, their names were never written in there.
Salvation is by God's Sovereign choice according to His will and not by man's efforts or desires, as Paul made clear. This truth is not man-made, but is according to scripture.
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"And all who dwell on the earth will worship the beast—all whose names have not been written from the foundation of the world in the Book of Life belonging to the Lamb who was slain."
And those who dwell on the earth whose names were not written in the Book of Life from the foundation of the world will marvel when they see the beast that was, and is not, and yet will be.
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Simply put, God wrote all of the names of those He had chosen in the book of life before the world even began. Likewise, there were names that were not written in the book of life before the world began.
There is no scriptures that teach that every persons name was written in the book of life and then blotted out. It would go against what the scripture above is stating, which is that their names were never even written in the book of life.
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"Like them, he who overcomes will be dressed in white. And I will never blot out his name from the Book of Life, but I will confess his name before My Father and His angels."
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If we reverse the scripture above, those who do not overcome with their garments remaining soiled, their names can and will be blotted out of the book of life. As believers in Christ, even though we have been chosen for salvation, we still need to have faith. We are saved by grace through faith. Therefore, faith is our part. If we soil our garments by going back into the world and willfully live according to the sinful nature and die in that state, then the Lord can and will blot out those names.
But getting back to the issue, only the names of those whom God chose from before the world began were written in the book of life. Those whom He did not chose, their names were never written in there.
Salvation is by God's Sovereign choice according to His will and not by man's efforts or desires, as Paul made clear. This truth is not man-made, but is according to scripture.
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Pretty Self Explanatory 
Romans 8:28-30KJV
28 And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.
29 For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.
30 Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified.
Romans 9:20-24KJV
20 Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus?
21 Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour?
22 What if God, willing to shew his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction:
23 And that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he had afore prepared unto glory,
24 Even us, whom he hath called, not of the Jews only, but also of the Gentiles?
Romans 8:28-30KJV
28 And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.
29 For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.
30 Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified.
Romans 9:20-24KJV
20 Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus?
21 Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour?
22 What if God, willing to shew his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction:
23 And that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he had afore prepared unto glory,
24 Even us, whom he hath called, not of the Jews only, but also of the Gentiles?
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Not exactly. Calvinists are still trusting in the finished work of Christ and imputed righteousness -- justification. The only issue is that they believe that the unsaved (or many of them) have been shut out of God's Kingdom by God. That God actually violates His own Gospel to pick and choose who will be saved and who will not.
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