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NASB	2 Timothy 3:8 Just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so these men also oppose the truth, men of depraved mind, rejected in regard to the faith.
AMPLIFIED 2015	2 Timothy 3:8 Just as Jannes and Jambres [the court magicians of Egypt] opposed Moses, so these men also oppose the truth, men of depraved mind, unqualified and worthless [as teachers] in regard to the faith. [Ex 7:11]

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Bible Question: I am doing a study on the word REPROBATE. I am interested in understanding its Full and indepth meaning along with the spiritual ramifications. Was Nebuchadnezzar, a reprobate, when he was in his sin...?
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Ginger G

Bible Answer: Hi, Ginger...

The term reprobate comes from the Greek word adokimos (Romans 1:28; 2 Timothy 3:8; and Titus 1:16) meaning to be rejected. Scripture makes reference to those who are the elect or chosen of God (Romans 18:7; Romans 8:33; 1 Thessalonians 1:4; Titus 1:1; 1 Peter 2:9; and elsewhere). As a consequence, the term reprobate and elect have become mutually exclusive. (Note that I do not say that Scripture treats them as such. We do not, to my knowledge, have a passage of Scripture that actually gives us the authority to treat them as antonyms. Nevertheless, in theological parlance over the years that has become the practice.)

The Canons of Dort speak of reprobation in chapter 1, "Moreover, Holy Scripture most especially highlights this eternal and undeserved grace of our election and brings it out more clearly for us, in that it further bears witness that not all people have been chosen but that some have not been chosen or have been passed by in God's eternal election -- those, that is, concerning whom God, on the basis of His entirely free, most just, irreproachable, and unchangeable good pleasure, made the following decision: to leave them in the common misery into which, by their own fault, they have plunged themselves; not to grant them saving faith and the grace of conversion; but finally to condemn and eternally punish them (having been left in their own ways and under His just judgment), not only for their unbelief but also for all their other sins, in order to display His justice. And this is the decision of reprobation, which does not at all make God the author of sin (a blasphemous thought!) but rather its fearful, irreproachable, just judge and avenger."

Some Reformed theologians believe in something called absolute predestination. This is the idea that God explicitly and actively chooses the elect, while explicitly and actively rejecting the reprobates. However, the majority of Reformed theologians view election as an action of God, while reprobation is a consequence of inaction -- a "passing over" if you will. In other words, reprobation is the default position of all mankind, requiring no action of God at all.

Note that there are common uses of the word reprobate which are not purely theological in nature. One might say, for example, "How can the world be so reprobate?" Such uses are idiomatic, and are not intended for proper technical use in discussing the theological doctrines of predestination, etc.

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