The 'ELECT' vs 'Free-Choice'

One does not have to know he is a witch to be a witch...
One can even claim to be a Christian.....

I see someone is back to there old Jewish ways cursing Christians.

If you lie down with dogs, you get up with fleas....


(In Latin, qui cum canibus concumbunt cum pulicibus surgent)


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I choose to believe there are no cookie-cutter answers to this question, and that how consciousness works is largely a mystery, though many books have been written to help people make better choices in life. God also desires people to choose life, which is in His Son, and this is made plain in Scripture. I also know that a choice was put to me at a time in my life when I was incapable of choosing to believe. Following that, many things happened, some of which propelled, not compelled, me onto a path that eventually led me to coming to believe. Wrapped up in that was my awareness that I had finally laid down my opposition to God and all things Biblical, including Christianity, though not before wailing, I am becoming one of them. Did I choose that? I did not make choices then that impeded such. This whole idea of choice being conflated with the will and our ability to make choices being called free will is wrong, and I know we agree on that. So much of the rest of it seems to be somewhat a difference in semantics. Still, God says to choose life, and there is only one way to do that.

Bob Dylan is Jewish...

Bob Dylan is Jewish...

sorry but my dogs Shem and Japheth, are guard dogs.

They protect my children, and for that reason they get defeated in a pree booked grooming appointment once a month where by get an all over shampoo and even a hair cut.

Also I think we can see this person where talking to here is obviously has his heart set on insulting.

It's quite obvious that he's a Jew in exile

Well whatever but I'm not concerned by your favouritism

Saved by the Blood of the Lamb

Are you a false teacher?

Who knows? If King David played electric guitar?


grace and peace ...........

Sounds to me you obviously have money.... No?
Is that money to be your salvation in this life?
Have your spirits guided you well into earthly security?


Your trophies are the ones in the forum you can get to react and get them banned...

In contrast.. God's trophies are the born again Christians that keep resisting you while growing in grace and knowledge.

See? Even you will serve a purpose for God's benefit of His people. ...... God needs fertilizer to make the Vine stronger!


Suggestion: You better stop showing us that you are antisemitic.
For God will have a curse on you if you do not stop. (Genesis 12:3)

In spite of your hatred... God is not done with the Jews yet.
He has them scattered around the world now as a means to protect them.
God will bring them back in to Israel after the Tribulation is over to set up His Throne in Jerusalem.
Then He will sit on the Throne of David and once again have the Millennium Jews be His people..

You lack understanding.
But, you do not lack in bias and prejudice.
God wants to weed that out of you before its too late...

Paul was a Jew. Peter was a Jew.

And? Jesus was a Jew.

Something is very wrong with your thinking.



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I agree that much of the confusion is semantics. Part of this is because I'm choosing wording on the fly. I've never read or heard what I am trying to explain, so the verbiage is as new to me as you.
Part of the confusion is also due to the difference in covenants, and what each calls for. Those to whom Joshua was addressing had very good reason to make a choice. They were under a covenant of works. The whole covenant involves choices. I don't believe this is so in the new covenant. It is a works covenant, but not for us. Further, it's a fulfilled covenant. There are absolutely no choices we can make that will alter the covenant. We can only be a part of it or not. And since the covenant can only be entered through faith and I believe faith is a gift of God, I don't believe our choice has anything to do with salvation.
That is not to say that we won't make choices subsequent to salvation. Those choices will be very different from the ones we were accustomed to making.
As far as the myriad ways individuals come to believe and are saved, I believe this is a testimony to the infinity of God. And some of my finest hours have been spent listening to or reading about stories recounting the wonders and ways God has exercised His grace towards His own.

I think King David could definitely get down and jam. He definitely had no problem dancing when the Ark was coming back to Judah

Shalom Brother