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    Trying to understand Lutheran election

    I probably use the term “Calvinist” too loosely at times. When I use it, I'm making a general reference to those who teach that there is no true free will, and that God predetermined (not just foreknew) who would and who would not come to a saving knowledge of Him. I guess I won't name...
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    Trying to understand Lutheran election

    Skala, You wrote: “Since God foreknows that Bob will reject the gospel, and has always known that from eternity past, that means during Bob's life, there is no possible way that Bob can suddenly repent and turn to Jesus and be saved, because God's foreknowledge of what Bob will do cannot be...
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    Trying to understand Lutheran election

    To Yahu: I agree we're working from a very incomplete perspective. I've never claimed to have every answer, but I maintain that we can logically deduce from Scripture, that God is not requiring something of humanity, that He doesn't endow us with the ability to accomplish...and then serving the...
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    Trying to understand Lutheran election

    I've never been able to understand why those who don't believe we have free will can't see that it's entirely possible for humans to have true free will from our perspective, and in the course of real time, while God maintains full omniscient knowledge of every move and decision we're going to...
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    Why I dig deep on difficult issues

    Writing about hell, judgment and other weighty biblical matters could seem a little on the morbid side. Sometimes I wish I felt led to cover other, less serious subjects. But the upside is that the truth I've found on these matters can bring great relief to those of us who were taught...
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    Trying to understand Lutheran election

    There's a fine line between God's complete foreknowledge of who will and will not ultimately come to Christ, and His general will that all should come to a saving knowledge of Him. But the line exists. If there is no true free will (at least from our human perspective, in the course of real...
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    Truth is Older than Tradition

    As I’ve studied the issue of final judgment more and more, I’ve become overwhelmed at times at the biblical evidence that No, God is Not, for all eternity, going to torment (or allow satan to torment) those who never find or accept salvation. But tradition rules. The “pull of the pack” is very...
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