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If God already knows few will find the narrow gate, is it because He created them this way? It says in the bible that we all have the choice to choose Jesus, but God knows His creation I guess. So given that, are we the lucky ones that got an extra dose of desire for kinship with Him? I am not a Calvinist but it seems as though there is some mystery which points towards Calvinistic ideology when one ponders these things. Any thoughts?
This particular verse/passage doesn't have a direct bearing on the doctrines of sovereign election or effectual grace. It's simply a statement of fact based on God's knowledge: relatively few will enter the gate. This is true regardless of your soteriological position (unless you're a universalist) because it doesn't address the question of WHY some believe/enter the gate while others do not. That question is certainly one addressed elsewhere in Scripture, and several have already weighed in on it, but this passage in and of itself doesn't answer that question
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