Jerry_M
<font color="darkblue"><i><b>A filthy, rotten, sin
Today at 09:03 PM Badfish said this in Post #19
Both, it is a freewilled decision to accept the gift (IMO), then once accepted God fills your heart, God knows the hearts of men.
I will wholeheartedly agree with your last statement, "God knows the hearts of men".
He knows just how much grace each of His beloved need in order to bring them to salvation. For the Apostle Paul, it took being blinded on the road to Damascus, with me it took His quiet urging more than 30 years ago in the privacy of my bedroom. See, God knew that I didn't need to be struck down and blinded, while at the same time He knew that a quiet nudge wouldn't get Paul's attention.
Yet, why doesn't God apply His grace in the same way upon all men? Why doesn't He strike down more people with blindness while they are engaged in sinful activity? If God wanted to save everyone, then why doesn't He intervene in their lives the same way that He did for Paul, or for me? You don't need to be a Rhodes scholar to recognize that many people never once hear the name of Jesus Christ their entire lives, let alone get a "Damascus Road" experience.
Yes, God knows just how to reach His elect, the rest He leaves to their own destruction.
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