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Because God simply takes pleasure in rejecting them? GOD takes no pleasure in the death of anyone, even the wicked, and would rather see them repent: GOD does all things for HIS pleasure but HE takes NO PLEASURE in the death of the wicked - therefore HE did not create them evil to go to hell...

To interpret this as meaning they are without any sin is too contrary to too many other verses that indicate that we are sinful at our conception etc, so it must mean something else. Perhaps it is referring to overt, obvious sin, that people who are sinners who are living ordinary lives and...

The plan of GOD for our lives here in this world is to have HIS sinful elect live with the reprobate unforgivable weeds for the one purpose of becoming fully repentant and holy in HIS sight as explained in the parable of the weeds, Matt 13:24-30, to speed up the coming of the day of Judgement: 2...

Sin is enslaving. A sinner cannot seek or do righteousness. Being born as sinners as a euphemism for being created in Adam as a sinner denies then making a free will choice to be a sinner after birth sometime later in our life, and the cognitive dissonance this creates inlight of HIS attributes...

Just as sin proves that we have a free will, that is, HE cannot cause anyone to be a sinner by any means at all, so does HIS anger at us prove our evil is by our free will choice to be evil in HIS sight as it is unjust to be angry at something natural, that is, for being as HE created us. There...

I believe a number of things... The only sinners going to hell are condemned already, Jn 3:18. Only those who have never believed, that is, have NEVER put their faith in YHWH as their GOD and in the Son as their saviour from sin. From their first free will decision they have rebuked HIM as a...

How interesting that no matter how I write it, there are those who replay or reframe it back to me as saying just the opposite of what I wrote. Always, sigh. PCE theology puts everyone's choice of the FATE they wanted as the REASON FOR, THE PRECURSOR to HIS predestination of our lIVES to...

As you might have noticed over the last 5 years or so, I am most decidedly NOT a Calvinist.

Of course I answered...judgement is the fulfilment of the predestination! No judgement and predestination fails and HE is revealed as a charlatan. And HIS predestination of people to heaven or hell is NOT UNJUST IF HIS reason for predestination is based upon where they put their faith, in HIM...

Their condemnation was their sentence, already given as per Jn 3:18. Their judgement refers to the fulfillment of their condemnation in their lives, ie, their banishment to the outer darkness. The parable of the weeds teaches us that the judgment has been postponed so the sins of the elect...

It is not available to those who sin the unforgivable sin...

NO, salvation is the cause of obedience...

I think the two English definitions of belief, one as faith (the unproven hope of Heb 11:1 ) and the other as trust in proven things (ie, I believe the sun will rise tomorrow.) makes for an often deliberate confusion.

An excellent gift from GOD through an increase of faith. A word study of Heb 11:1 is also enlightening, especially the nuances of the word the KJV chose to render as evidence which is acceptable but a bit of English archaic in this instance. Biblehub and Strong's Concordance are very useful.

As a Trinitarian I cannot accept this. GOD is love and love without an object to love is meaningless, self love and narcissistic.. To be eternally loving there had to be an eternal object of love, at least one... Father has nothing to do with creation of the Son but with the attitude, pov and...

the pagans like to add: from eternity past to eternity future, a good bit of logic if you don't know GOD which the Church accepted even though it conflicts directly with HIS other attributes of lovinging, righteous justice. IF this definition of omniscience is true, all HE had to do to keep...

Ding ding!! This line gets the prize for telling the story the most wrong!! Such twisting seldom seen before. ...and I am a Canadian who lotha the Liberals and Trudeau.

I have never said that the verse is a proof verse forcing any belief, just that it was a possible interpretation. When so many possibles exist, the probable can seem clearer. If Jeremiah 1:5 "Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, can be discounted on face value, anything can be...

All this is true but it does not address the fact that Job 38:7 seems to claim that ALL the Sons of GOD (even the disinherited ones, Deuteronomy 32:5) saw the creation of the physical universe, that is, if you are a Son of GOD then you were there singing HIS praises with the rest of us.

In light of the very real possibility of both Satan and Job having chosen rebellion to GOD before they were flung into the earth and Job sown, (not created) into the world, Matt 13:36-39, the scenario could be based upon their sinfulness. Iow, though their FATES were self chosen by their free...