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1 | Whom God choose in Him before Creation | Is 43:7 | DocTrinsograce | 187410 | ||
Dear P25, I should have also added that nothing "predisposes" God in His choosing. Such a thing would imply merit. If merit were involved, there would be no such thing as grace. In historic Baptist teaching, the old divines put it this way: "Those of mankind that are predestinated to life, God, before the foundation of the world was laid, according to His eternal and immutable purpose, and the secret counsel and good pleasure of His will, hath chosen in Christ unto everlasting glory, out of His mere free grace and love, without any other thing in the creature as a condition or cause moving Him thereunto. (Ephesians 1:4, 9, 11; Romans 8:30; 2 Timothy 1:9; 1 Thessalonians 5:9; Romans 9:13, 16; Ephesians 2:5, 12)" --1689 London Baptist Confession of Faith, chapter 3, paragraph 5 In Him, Doc |
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2 | What was going on before man/created? | Is 43:7 | Psalm 25 | 187413 | ||
Doc, I forgot to address your response "implies merit." This is the traditional responses (in utmost respect) but since Romans 3 tells us "there is none righteous, no not one," and "none are willing, not even one; Any good calvinist would already know that no matter why God chose whom He did there was not merit period. For years I have tried to resolve the love of God with "eternal hell." It would be much easier to rectify all we know about God's love if there was a scenerio going on (which I know is mere speculation)before the foundations of the world that influenced God chooses one way or the other. Have you not ever pondered the Great Love of God (which I know is only for the elect) and the fact that so many souls are doomed (by their own choice) to an everlasting hell? Psalm 25 |
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3 | What was going on before man/created? | Is 43:7 | DocTrinsograce | 187423 | ||
Duplicate question. | ||||||