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To: conservonator
If you want to reconcile the concept of a loving, merciful God with Calvin's monster god, go ahead

That is not the way to discuss this. It is not a way to persuade me of your argument. Name calling and aspersions only engender conflicts do they not?

No, let us be like reasonable men, and reason from the Scriptures.

Here, I have presented you with the scriptures that, seems to violates mans free will. That God says "NO ONE" can approach the Lord Jesus Christ, unless He, the Father "Draws" them. And again He repeats it saying "NO ONE".

And I remind you of the Text of this thread, regarding "God's Sovereignly and Paul's Conversion". For you see, did not God violate Saul's will when He interrupted his mission to destroy the Christians at Damascus?

Yes, He has done much much more than we can comprehend, and His loving kindnesses toward folks like us, is beyond our comprehension. For in the case of Saul, his knocking him off his mount and blinding him was pure love, even though, logically speaking, it violated his will. Also have you never read in Romans "Esau have I hated and Jacob have I loved", Paul says from the WOMB! This surely is a violation of Free Will, because neither had a chance to argue!.

As for John 3:16 "For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life."

The whosoever are those who are given the gift of Hearing. For the Lord said in Matthew (and quoted the Old Testament):

"In their case the prophecy of Isaiah is being fulfilled, which says,'YOU WILL KEEP ON HEARING, BUT WILL NOT UNDERSTAND; YOU WILL KEEP ON SEEING, BUT WILL NOT PERCEIVE;"

The Unregenerate cannot hear, for the spiritually dead do not Hear.

This is why the Word of God must be preached and we must obey Christ's admonition to "Go into all the world and preach the Gospel", because we do not know who God has enabled them to hear until the Elect confess and give evidence of their faith.

34 posted on 03/19/2008 11:03:21 AM PDT by sr4402
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To: sr4402

God violates no mans will, He gives us the ability to conform ours to His. Now, what exactly did Christ say in John 6 regarding having life with in us?


37 posted on 03/19/2008 12:55:59 PM PDT by conservonator (spill czeck is knot my friend)
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