Understanding God’s election
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God already knows where everyone is going. Why would you waste your time and energy?! That's an insult to evangelist ministers who travel to share the Gospel to the lost and care about the condition of their souls. If heaven is just a lottery where the lucky ones get it, I would want no part of it. That is an unjust God.
Why do you add the word available? It's not in the text. It's an assumption on your part, and it skews and alters the meaning of the verse. It says there resulted...to all men. Since all mankind is not justified before God, how then do you say it has happened?
The only way to reconcile the verse with reality as it is actually written is to understand all men differently.
The only way to reconcile the verse with reality as it is actually written is to understand all men differently.
Good analogy. Plus there's very much in life (Natural Revelation) that we passively receive. Which one of us actively chose to be born? Which one of us actively chose to receive our parents? Which one of us at birth actively chose to receive the environment in which we grew up? Which one of us at birth actively chose to be a healthy or unhealthy baby, etc., etc.?
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Actually I'm not. Can you show me from scripture where a natural man who has enmity in his mind towards God and who is not subject to the law of God ever believed without God changing his hostile mind and uncircumcised heart?
Read Acts 2:37. What happens to these people who Peter said killed the Lord of glory? What transpires to change their thinking and actions towards Him?
Read Acts 2:37. What happens to these people who Peter said killed the Lord of glory? What transpires to change their thinking and actions towards Him?
Which is backwards. One must first be born again (made alive) in order to have the ability to believe.
And, yes, a loving God would give us commands impossible to keep in order for us to see how frail, weak, helpless and vulnerable we are so that perhaps we'll call out to God to take up the slack for what we cannot do. God gave Israel the Law, and Israel was required to obey all of it all the time. But how did that work out for them? And why would God have given Israel such an utterly impossible task?
And, yes, a loving God would give us commands impossible to keep in order for us to see how frail, weak, helpless and vulnerable we are so that perhaps we'll call out to God to take up the slack for what we cannot do. God gave Israel the Law, and Israel was required to obey all of it all the time. But how did that work out for them? And why would God have given Israel such an utterly impossible task?
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