What I say is not works , not one bit, it's 'choice.' Choosing Him is work, this is true, but, is it 'works,' you ask? No, not at all. It's faith in Him, pure and simple, that's what we MUST have to both accept Christ and also to increase our understanding and our knowledge of Him in our lives working, isisD
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And, what's that verse there followed by in a host of verses in the VERY NEXT Romans 10 chapter....... ?
God elects us, by the way, those who decide to be a part of His 'office' are saved.
Don't over-complicate things, milady, His ways for us are so simple to have Him, not just some have, but ALL have, who so choose to believe in Him, whoever, whosoever believes IS saved; just look at the Truth, it's soo easy to see that 'The Elect' are those 'few' who chooose to follow Him. "...you follow Me.' John 21:22
You're stuck in Calvinistic thought, God does not play favorites when it comes to people's salvation, ALL can come to Him, they are ALL drawn, not all accept Him--and, God knows this will happen, to His tearing chagrin-- but, yeah, you're a TULIP or similar, I can tell, and, that's OK, we're BOTH going to same place.
But, leading others to BELIEVE that they MAY or MAY NOT be saved by His election of them to be with Him after they die is a false teaching that I would not want to be doing
Funny, too, you have this verse and in Romans ONE chapter later it says:
Romans 10
Moses writes this about the righteousness that is by the law: “The person who does these things will live by them.”[SUP]
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6But the righteousness that is by faith says: “Do not say in your heart, ‘Who will ascend into heaven?’ ”[SUP]b[/SUP] (that is, to bring Christ down) 7“or ‘Who will descend into the deep?’ ”[SUP]c[/SUP] (that is, to bring Christ up from the dead).
8But what does it say? “The word is near you; it is in your mouth and in your heart,”[SUP]
d[/SUP] that is, the message concerning faith that we proclaim:
9If you declare with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.
10For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you profess your faith and are saved.
11As Scripture says, “Anyone who believes in him will never be put to shame.”[SUP]
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12For there is no difference between Jew and Gentile—the same Lord is Lord of all and richly blesses all who call on him,
13for, “Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.”
Don't play God. Only He knows. And, we DO say that we KNOW who WILL ascend to heaven when we say that ONLY those who are pre-destined to go to heaven go to heaven. Don't say it. Don't do it, isisD
[h=1]Exodus 10[/h]
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Then Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron in haste; and he said, I have sinned against the Lord your God, and against you.
[SUP]17 [/SUP]Now therefore forgive, I pray thee, my sin only this once, and intreat the Lord your God, that he may take away from me this death only.
[SUP]18 [/SUP]And he went out from Pharaoh, and intreated the Lord.
[SUP]19 [/SUP]And the Lord turned a mighty strong west wind, which took away the locusts, and cast them into the Red sea; there remained not one locust in all the coasts of Egypt.
[SUP]20 [/SUP]But the Lord hardened Pharaoh's heart, so that he would not let the children of Israel go
