Any words of encouragement?

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Lamar

Lamar

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Lamar said:
Can any of the elect offer some sincere glimmer of hope to the non-chosen around them? Any passage or bit of advice to those who are not called? Must they simply accept their fate in the hereafter? I can think of a few but would like to hear from those who know they are of the elect.
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To be clear, I personally do not believe in predestination. I find it to be a patchwork theology based on a rather silly notion.

But if God has truly "picked" those who He will save and will not save then the following may be of some hope:

2nd Chronicles 30: 17-20
Isaiah 38:1-8
Genesis 18:16-33

Maybe God will change His mind if the non-chosen will beseech Him in sincere prayer?

Maybe?
 
Lamar

Lamar

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Lamar said:
Can any of the elect offer some sincere glimmer of hope to the non-chosen around them? Any passage or bit of advice to those who are not called? Must they simply accept their fate in the hereafter? I can think of a few but would like to hear from those who know they are of the elect.
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I also thought of Mark 9:24:

Immediately the father of the boy cried out, “I do believe; help my unbelief! ”

This verse maybe of some hope but only if the child's father was not among those who God gave the ability to believe in Him as part of His predestination.
 
homwardbound

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Lamar said:
To be clear, I personally do not believe in predestination. I find it to be a patchwork theology based on a rather silly notion.

But if God has truly "picked" those who He will save and will not save then the following may be of some hope:

2nd Chronicles 30: 17-20
Isaiah 38:1-8
Genesis 18:16-33

Maybe God will change His mind if the non-chosen will beseech Him in sincere prayer?

Maybe?
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God has left no one out to choose God in Son for them or not, that is done by Son, so we can be given the new life in God's Spirit and Truth, not of flesh and blood any longer, for us to view new from God Father's view. Romans 12:2
maybe: is a form of doubt. As even a modicum of doubt, keeps one from entering and seeing clearly.
Just read Isaiah 7:1-9 God through Isaiah tells the people a truth and says if you do not believe me, then I won't establish you. Today is the day to turn to God as every day is in belief trust, and not doubt God, no matter how the outcome might appear in fear.
F-alse
E-vidence
A-ppearing
R-eal
 
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