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    Understanding God’s election

    I only go by whT the Father said. Man's ideology is not salvation.
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    Understanding God’s election

    Advertising? Is Universalist Salvation doctrine considered heresy?
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    Could Trump do anything to make you stop supporting him?

    I read about this. The current administration appears committed to destroy our security while there's still time. It's a shame. I thought of this verse being the Democrats are referred to as the left while Republicans are the right. Ecclesiastes 10:2 A wise man’s heart inclines to the right...
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    Understanding God’s election

    Yes,that is true. I would say Romans 9 supports that.
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    Understanding God’s election

    I think the identity of God's Elect chosen before the foundation of this world says different.
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    Understanding God’s election

    Those Bible verses answered the question someone posted in this thread. That's not accurate actually.
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    Understanding God’s election

    https://www.openbible.info/topics/spirit_must_operate_upon_a_person_in_a_supernatural_fashion_before_he_can_believe What Does the Bible Say About Spirit Must Operate Upon A Person In A Supernatural Fashion Before He Can Believe? John 6:44 No one...
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    Understanding God’s election

    Perhaps following what Jesus taught is more fulfilling than the opinion of Mr.Jackson.
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    Understanding God’s election

    1 Corinthians 2:10-12 For to us God revealed them through the Spirit; for the Spirit searches all things, even the depths of God. For who among men knows the thoughts of a man except the spirit of the man which is in him? Even so the thoughts of God no one knows except the Spirit of God. Now we...
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    Understanding God’s election

    The last sentence is a curious observation. I'll leave you to come to the realization as to what you said.
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    Understanding God’s election

    It is taught that in our sinful natural state we cannot understand the things of God.
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    Understanding God’s election

    That is t what Paul taught in 1st Corinthians 2.
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    Understanding God’s election

    I think what clearly exists as a chronic fixed animus toward reformed theology here has led to blindness in consuming the whole message of God. Because the wall that stymies the ability to see that is a label some fix upon. Calvinism. I think when a mind and heart that is fixed on that...
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    Understanding God’s election

    If we follow that hypotheses we may notice we are all born failed and dead in our sin the moment we arrive at an age of accountability for our sins. Salvation from the sin of all occurs because the sin of one condemned all to sin and be sinners first.
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    Understanding God’s election

    I see the difference there as God having hardened Pharaoh's heart While the condition of sin nature is of God by making a separation between God and man so that man is hardened to the things of God.
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    Understanding God’s election

    Regarding my post that you quoted, I don't believe any such commentary applies to that. God's word speaks for itself.
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    Understanding God’s election

    God hardened Pharaohs heart. "And I will harden Pharaoh's heart, and multiply my signs and my wonders in the land of Egypt. But Pharaoh shall not hearken unto you, that I may lay my hand upon Egypt, and bring forth mine armies, and my people the children of Israel, out of the land of Egypt by...
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    Understanding God’s election

    It's all Gods word and work. We cannot be both dead in our sin unable to accept God's message because the flesh is selfish and thinks holiness to be foolishness and then choose to stop being dead in our sins so to realize that and understand God's Gospel. That isn't at all what he tells us.
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    Understanding God’s election

    It is a concomitant event.
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    Understanding God’s election

    God tells us his spirit must act upon us first before we can accept his gift.