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    Rufus replied to the thread Understanding God’s election.
    IOW, you really don't know or aren't very sure of the kind of love God has for his children? Would it be a lower grade love than...
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    Rufus replied to the thread Understanding God’s election.
    Okay then...does God love anyone in the filial sense? If so, who? And I take it that you see no difference between God's common grace...
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    Rufus replied to the thread Understanding God’s election.
    You apparently share Peter's anticlimatic sentiment about this so called earthly, millennial reign in 2Pet 3, as he urged his audience...
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    Rufus replied to the thread Understanding God’s election.
    The Man in the Moon. Who else? :coffee:
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    Rufus replied to the thread Understanding God’s election.
    So...just to be clear: You believe that Jn 3:16 teaches that God loves all men w/o exception, even all the God-haters of this world?
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    Rufus replied to the thread Understanding God’s election.
    Read Rom 3 some day. No one seeks God except the ones God has given to his Son and whom God effectually draws to Him!
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    Rufus replied to the thread Understanding God’s election.
    Actually, that will be Jesus' words to virtually all unbelievers since none of them were ever brought into a personal, intimate, loving...
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    Rufus replied to the thread Understanding God’s election.
    And I would bet you dollars to donuts that detractors "of TULIP out there think their verses justify their warped beliefs", as well.
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    Rufus replied to the thread Understanding God’s election.
    What I highlighted above speaks to God's benevolence or beneficent love that dispenses common grace for the benefit and preservation of...
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    Rufus replied to the thread Understanding God’s election.
    Since the whole world of UNBELIEVERS hate Christ, then you need to explain how did this world transform its own nature and change its...
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    Rufus replied to the thread Understanding God’s election.
    And that "certain part of the world at the time" would have been Israel who never considered herself to be part of the [pagan...
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    Rufus replied to the thread Understanding God’s election.
    The pitfalls to FWT are so numerous, I barely know where to begin. But here's another one that shows just how duplicitous and...
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    Rufus replied to the thread Understanding God’s election.
    Did God give "the ability" to the fallen angels "to call upon his name"? And how would God be unjust by giving sinners what they...
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    Rufus replied to the thread Understanding God’s election.
    Hah...I see. Your god only works "lovingly through" those who seek him. But not so much through dead, helpless, powerless people who...
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    Rufus replied to the thread Understanding God’s election.
    Mr. Wanna-be Scholar sir...have you never read that "you reap what you sow"? Or if you don't like that then there's always Prov 26:4-5...