Yea I’m not sure why the quote he used in the op didn’t register
“Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others.”
Ephesians 2:3 KJV
“Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others.”
Ephesians 2:3 KJV
he believes that because of predestination, even while we were children of wrath and unbelieving, when we did evil and suffered for it, God was not punishing us as being condemned but chastising us as sons & daughters in order to bring us to faith and repentance.
in brief: if we belong to Him, we have always belong to Him, and we never suffered His wrath but His instruction, when He rebuked us. now that we do believe, we know this, tho before we came to faith, we didn't understand it as such.
we were never in any danger, because He chose us in Him to be redeemed, not to be destroyed.