Interesting choice of words don't you agree? Condemned already. Who is born believing? Therefore, all born into this life are condemned.
Then we take the scripture that was under discussion, that God does not pay attention to nor listen to the prayers of sinners. Only to those who are already godly and do his will.
How do the condemned repent when God doesn't pay attention to nor hear their prayers? How does someone come to believe in the God that doesn't hear the born condemned persons prayers? How does the one born condemned whom God does not listen to nor pay attention to should they pray change their condition?
They can believe in God, but if God doesn't hear their prayers does God see them? If he tells you he doesn't hear them?
If all things are predestined and predetermined by God, because God knew the name of everyone whom he would save before salvation became a factor in this world, and God doesn't hear the prayers of sinners, how would anyone but the one's God predetermined to save have hope?
When you are told God does all things, which would include of course predetermination, he predetermines, predestines, as sovereign God, all things, according to his will. And due to his zeal for his own glory. All that is in the bible too.
Why would God not hear a sinners prayer? When people are born condemned, sinners, in the beginning. All but those he predestined to save.
Doesn't that then call into question John 3:16? Or is there a version of its wording that coincides with the predestined saving of those whom God has chosen to save before they were born?
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Why would anyone get mad investigating deeper the scriptures that someone may have only considered superficially?
If it is God's breath, God's inspired word to the world, why deny what God tells you about you? And himself?
Jesus said you do not choose Me but I chose you, and appointed you that you would go and bear fruit, and that your fruit would remain, so that whatever you ask of the Father in My name He may give to you.
It is a matter of composition. A composite of God's own message to you. Take the scriptures that God inspired you to understand of himself and your place in his plan as his message. You can't deny God is sovereign. You can't deny God predestines all things due to his zeal for his own glory. You can't deny God tells you he does not hear the prayer of sinners, only those who are godly , saved, and do his will.
Many are called. Few are
chosen. That isn't the afterthought. Many can read the bible and believe they'll go to hell if they don't come to Jesus. Look at all those people who are in the public eye, wearing crosses, and yet are criminal types, or immoral. Publicly immoral as they are public figures. What's that cross mean then? Do they act like a Christian?
Or are they betting their eternity on the wager of Pascal?
If they're not chosen God doesn't hear their prayers.
Maybe that's why so many claiming Christ give Christ by their personality a bad name. Because they felt called to claim Christ. But they weren't chosen by Christ in the beginning to be someone he'd listen to when they prayed.