TedT
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It's like if you saw a door that says all who will may enter. It's up to you. You decide to go in and there is a table with a place mat with your name on it. On the back of the door it says ordained before the foundation of time
EXCEPT, you can only enter by the gift of the grace of GOD. No one can will to be saved from their enslavement to sin. NO one not gifted with faith can enter...not one. So, if all people are equal in sinfulness and there is no condition found in anyone to have them to be chosen for salvation NOR to be passed over for salvation then HE chose for HIS pleasure because HE is sovereign.
HE gives the gift of salvation to some but withholds it from others...for no stated nor understood reason except that HE can do this so IF HE wants to do this it is righteous because HE is Sovereign GOD.
EXCEPT also, that HIS sovereignty does not, cannot, trump HIS nature, HIS godly attributes of ALWAYS being loving, righteous and just. HE cannot, will never, do anything that does not measure up (ie, misses the mark) to HIS nature and then call it righteous because HE is sovereign. HIS sovereignty ONLY SERVES HIS attributes by seeing that HIS love, righteousness and justice are always achieved, never compromised in the least!!!
So, how is HIS righteousness, loving kindness and justice fulfilled by passing over giving the gift of salvation to anyone for no reason??
??First HE makes them all to be sinners by putting them into Adam then HE refuses to give them the gift of salvation so they end in hell forever....riiiight...??
Isaiah 43:7, 21
7 "whom I created for my glory"
21 ...the people I formed for myself that they may proclaim my praise.
HOW does creating them in sin then damning them for that sin give HIM glory? What is praiseworthy in HIS withholding the gift of salvation from those HE damns when they are no more evil than those HE chooses to save? There is no mystery here...only unreconciled blasphemies.
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