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Rom 8:28 And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose. 29 For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren. 30 Moreover...

Do you believe that?

Why have I had entire posts taken down with no explanation?

The text that I dealt with did not present us with what God foreknows, but whom God foreknew. And, he foreknew that Israel as his people would not believe in their redeemer. Foreknew describes an action. Edit per mod. These comments imply that you are calling someone out for their thinking...

Years ago I spent some time in Vietnam. The locals there had a saying when two or more things are the same. It was "same/same." Here are three things in a context that are the same. 1 I say then, Hath God cast away his people? God forbid. For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of...

You are on the wrong subject. God is not teaching omniscience, though he does that in other passages, he is teaching foreknowledge in the passage I quoted. There is a difference. Think! The subject is the people group Israel in the New Testament days. Through Christ he has kept promises to them...

Foreknowledge is a New Testament word. It is not a description of an attribute of God in the four thousand years of the Old Testament. This word appears first in Romans 11 in the context of God's people, Israel, with whom he had a long two thousand year covenant relationship, beginning with the...

Yes, a thousand times. Jesus took away sin by his sacrifice on Calvary. The atonement of Christ was the satisfaction for sin. In the OT, we are told, "God is angry with sinners everyday." There was no blood sacrifice for the nations in those days. But, in these days, there is a sacrifice for the...

Read this passage of scripture and you be the judge. Report back and let us know your conclusions. Revelation 21:6-8 6 And he said unto me, It is done. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give unto him that is athirst of the fountain of the water of life freely. 7 He...

17 And from Miletus he sent to Ephesus, and called the elders of the church. 18 And when they were come to him, he said unto them, Ye know, from the first day that I came into Asia, after what manner I have been with you at all seasons, 19 Serving the Lord with all humility of mind, and with...

My comments are in the context of limited atonement, the subject of the thread. The scriptures tell us that we should "earnestly contend for the faith." One does not need to contend with those who have never heard about the faith. Paul, our pattern, contended with religious people, as he was...

You are making the scriptures senseless with some of your doctrines. There is still time to repent and believe the gospel of Jesus Christ and his death and resurrection is good news to all men everywhere.

There are not commandment(s). There is a commandment. God has commanded all men everywhere to repent. Can they obey him? Of course they can obey him if the can refuse to repent. Stop assuming all men everywhere are going to be willing to confuse plain language like Calvinists do.

If that the gospel, you think? The gospel is that these Athenians do not have the ability to believe in the resurrection of Jesus Christ and his mission of a perfect sinless life that Paul presented to them. Is your message to the world from God is that they are sinners and sorry about their...

Here is a then and now verse that will test if you are being deceived and are not really using the grammatical/historical model. It is historical and spoken by a true apostle. Acts 16:16 Now while Paul waited for them at Athens, his spirit was stirred in him, when he saw the city wholly given...