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NASB | Ecclesiastes 6:10 ¶ Whatever exists has already been named, and it is known what man is; for he cannot dispute with him who is stronger than he is. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Ecclesiastes 6:10 ¶ Whatever exists has already been named [long ago], and it is known what [a frail being] man is; for he cannot dispute with Him who is mightier than he. |
Subject: Predestination |
Bible Note: Part 2: You said: “1 Timothy 2:3-6; This is good and pleases God our Saviour who wants all men to be saved and come to a knowledge of the truth. For there is one God and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus, who gave himself as a ransom for all men- the testimony given in proper time. :now how do you explain that God's grace is limited when it says Christ gave himself as a ransom for all men?” My reply: Many people hack verses or parts of verses out of the Scriptures and fling words such as “all” and “al men” and “world” about like confetti or like straws in the wind, but these same people who butcher the Scriptures always deliberately ignore the contexts from which those snippets have been hacked. They also avoid considering those fragments in the context of All the Scriptures. The result is always blatant misrepresentation of the Scriptures, and a * misrepresentation * is another word for a lie. You seem to be assuming that Christ died to save “every individual person of the entire human race in all generations from Adam and Eve until the end of the world without any exception whatsoever” but this is contradicted by the Scriptures, which teach [Romans 12:3, Acts 13:48, Acts 18:27; Hebrews 12:2; Galatians 5:22 etc.] that saving Faith is itself the gift of GOD, and without Faith it is impossible to please GOD [Hebrews 11:6]. Therefore it’s obvious that it is not the will of GOD that everyone of the entire human race should be saved, because GOD has deliberately withheld His gift of saving Faith from many people who therefore perish. Since the Scriptures teach that salvation is always by Grace apart from works, it is obvious that it is not the will of GOD that everyone of the entire human race should be saved, because the fact that that many perish in sin and unbelief – which fact is confirmed by Gospel of John 3:16b – is cogent proof that GOD has deliberately withheld His saving grace from all such people or otherwise they would not have perished in their sins. You said: “Or How can you say God's love isn't universal when He wants all to come to a knowledge of the truth? My reply: Gospel of John 6:39-45 states that the “all” whom GOD wants to come to a knowledge of the truth are none other than those which GOD the Father gives to Christ – as in John 6:44 and John 6:39. Why would GOD want the knowledge of the truth to be obtained by those people whom even before Creation He deliberately excluded from the number of His elect people? No reason at all. Why would GOD want the knowledge of the truth to be obtained by those people whom He has deliberately excluded from having their names written in His Book of Life [refer to Revelation 20:15 immediately below.]? No reason at all. Revelation 20:15 - “And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire.” Revelation 20:15 is but one of numerous Scripture verses which prove that the ideas of “universal atonement” and “universal salvation” are falsehoods and heresies. To be concluded in Part 3 … |