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1 | Why won't Calvinists answer directly??? | Job 38:1 | RElderCascade | 2137 | ||
A very important distinction! You are very wise to note this issue. It goes to the idea of eternal reprobation -- how does it work. God was not in any way responsible for the sins of Pharaoh! Nor is God resopnsible for anyone's sins. There is a common mistake made by the extreme position which I was trying to refute in the message posted on 3/23. The following is an excerpt from it. "...I don't subscribe to the belief that the way God chose the non-elect is by specificly working in the lives of those who are not saved to harden them to the guaranteed point of sending them to Hell. I know that in the rhetorical moment of an earlier comment I made it sound like I beleive God makes positive surety of those going to Hell by His involvement directly. That is not the way it works. God will instead give one over to the real state of their heart. Pharoah had enough evil in his heart already, so when God hardened his heart it was done by restraining his grace from him. God set it out from the foundation of eternity to either elect Pharoah or pass him over and it had nothing to do with the self-refuting nonsense that God had to look into the the future to see what Pharoah would do and then respond." So the idea of eternal reprobation is God restrains His grace from those who are not elect. But He does not (by scriptural evidence) seem to guarantee the unbelief of the non-elect. They are, as you quoted, "drawn away by their own lust." |
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2 | Why won't Calvinists answer directly??? | Job 38:1 | kalos | 2147 | ||
Dear RElderCascade: I want to thank you for all the encouragement and support you've been giving me. How kind of you to write and encourage me. I just read your Personal Profile and agree with you on your choice of favorite authors. I have spent much of my life in a church that not only rejects the Bible doctrine of election (having formulated their own doctrine which they find easier to accept), but one in which the average member neither knows nor wants to know any Bible doctrine about anything. As such, I never "saw" or understood the Bible doctrine of election until fairly recently. Now that it's been well explained to me, I find it instantly logical and Scriptural, as I did the doctrine of Eternal Security when, at long last, it was defined and explained for me. Thank you again. May God be with you and bless you in all your service for Him. Yours, JVH0212 | ||||||