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05-20-2008, 02:17 PM
It's not that you are not predestined for hell, but that you are predestined to hell because you choose to reject God's truth of His way of saving souls.
It's not that you are not chosen for hell, but that God predestinated by foreknowing your free-choice.
"Come unto me" (Matt. 11.28). "He that will, let him take the water of life freely" (Rev. 22.17). "And him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out" (John 6.37b). "But as many as received him, to them gave he the right to become children of God, even to them that believe on his name" (John 1.12). Jesus encouraged Nicodemus to be saved, telling him, "whosoever believeth..." (John 3.16) shall be saved.
"For those whom he foreknew he also predestined" (Rom. 8.29). He predestinates those whom He foreknows.
The question for a calvinist always should be, how does He foreknow? Does He foreknow by making you a robot, or does He foreknow by being able to see your free-choice?
If God is constantly offering people the choice to receive Him and the cross, we must conclude then it is because He foresees our free-choice and He is not in vain telling people to come to the cross, otherwise He is being fake.
Adam and Eve, Cain and Abel were given the choice. And God is not having a conversation with Himself.
How do we (Christians) correctly understand Rom. 3.11, "There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God"?
Nobody does seek after God, but by the grace of God, people are drawn to Him by being convinced, though not to cause some people to believe and others not without regard first for their choice.
"For the gifts and the call of God are irrevocable" (Rom. 11.29). Those God predestinates are called by His foreknowing their free-choice.
Praise God of the Bible! By grace are ye saved by faith, not of works-or ideology of calvinism-lest any man should boast.
It's not that you are not chosen for hell, but that God predestinated by foreknowing your free-choice.
"Come unto me" (Matt. 11.28). "He that will, let him take the water of life freely" (Rev. 22.17). "And him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out" (John 6.37b). "But as many as received him, to them gave he the right to become children of God, even to them that believe on his name" (John 1.12). Jesus encouraged Nicodemus to be saved, telling him, "whosoever believeth..." (John 3.16) shall be saved.
"For those whom he foreknew he also predestined" (Rom. 8.29). He predestinates those whom He foreknows.
The question for a calvinist always should be, how does He foreknow? Does He foreknow by making you a robot, or does He foreknow by being able to see your free-choice?
If God is constantly offering people the choice to receive Him and the cross, we must conclude then it is because He foresees our free-choice and He is not in vain telling people to come to the cross, otherwise He is being fake.
Adam and Eve, Cain and Abel were given the choice. And God is not having a conversation with Himself.
How do we (Christians) correctly understand Rom. 3.11, "There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God"?
Nobody does seek after God, but by the grace of God, people are drawn to Him by being convinced, though not to cause some people to believe and others not without regard first for their choice.
"For the gifts and the call of God are irrevocable" (Rom. 11.29). Those God predestinates are called by His foreknowing their free-choice.
Praise God of the Bible! By grace are ye saved by faith, not of works-or ideology of calvinism-lest any man should boast.