Subject: Aren't the elect commanded to repent? |
Bible Note: John, while you've been waiting with glee, I've been busy as a bee preparing an answer to your question, and the cyber-monster ate it up! In other words, it got lost somewhere between 'preview follow-up' and 'submit.' Now it was far and away the best post I've ever written, it was tailored especially to your question, and now you'll never know what you missed!.... A thumbnail sketch of what I said and then lost is this: John, I believe Matthew in 3:5,6 was not attempting to say that every human being from Jerusalem, Judea and the area around the Jordan came to John for baptism, but was merely showing that this was a big turn-out and people came, as we would say, from all over. --Hank |