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1 | Is the Potter free to do as He pleases? | Eph 2:3 | New Creature | 98772 | ||
John I must disagree with your persistence that God does not show mercy to all. I still see support for God's love and mercy that extends to all of Adam's fallen race. In other words for all the world. Mercy means compassion, and compassion translates into God's love which is much more vast, deep, wide, and all encompassing than I believe we currently comprehend or are willing to acknowledge. (see Eph. 3:18-19) John 3:16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. Concerning the question you asked: "Do you believe that God does not fashion vessels of dishonor (common use)? Will not each person spend eternity in either Heaven or Hell?" I answer yes, but as I stated in my initial post "objects of wrath" (Rom. 9:22) as I see it can be removed from that condition just as Eph. 2:3 states. If the Bible omitted Eph 2:3 then I would agree with you. But because Eph. 2:3 is there, I believe what the Bible says. So how do you explain the "objects of wrath" in Eph. 2:3 of which it is said; "they were (past tense) "objects of wrath?" Blessings NC |
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2 | Is the Potter free to do as He pleases? | Eph 2:3 | John Reformed | 98835 | ||
Dear NC, Eph 2:3,4 identifies as "us" being the objects of mercy. Context cannot be ignored just because we find a doctrine offensive to our human sensibilities. All that God has done is holy and just. I'll stick with the plain and simple reading of the chapter. Got to go, John |
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3 | Is the Potter free to do as He pleases? | Eph 2:3 | Morant61 | 98845 | ||
Greetings John! Paul is writing to Christians in Ephesians 2. He talks about how they once were and then says, "Like the rest, we were by nature objects of wrath." Who is the 'we'? Paul and the Christians to whom he is writing are the 'we'. They once were 'objects of wrath', but now they have received God's mercy. So, the 'plain and simple' reading of the chapter is that Paul and other believers were once 'objects of wrath', but are not now. Your Brother in Christ, Tim Moran |
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4 | Is the Potter free to do as He pleases? | Eph 2:3 | John Reformed | 98862 | ||
Hi Tim, Indeed, all men come into this world under the curse, and prior to faith in Christ, are objects of wrath. The fact that Paul (an object of wrath himself at one time) and those saints to which he wrote had now recieved mercy, places them apart from those who are called "vessels of wrath prepared for destruction?". We were by "nature" objects of wrath, but by the grace of God, were fore-ordained to recieve mercy. John |
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