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I believe God will enable every single person who will accept His offer of grace. I believe His election is based on His foreknowledge of who will believe and abide in Christ to the end.
If the enabling is Gods power to save whom he pleases all good and well. But if you mean by his foreknowledge that he only sees into the future to find out who has chosen him than it would be no more by the election of God but by the choice of others.
 
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Notice God did not prepare the vessels of wrath but merely endured them. So who prepares them? The vessels of wrath prepares themselves by numerous choices and rejection of his calling on them. It is his will that none perish but that all come to eternal life. Some refuse.
 
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The scripture says Nations ...spoken to the Jews, that believed they had special access to God that the gentiles did not ...
 
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It is by our own choices in the end. Each man will stand in judgement for their choices. No man will be able to blame God that they wouldn’t/couldn’t respond.
 
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No I completely agree that we inherited their sinful nature but I disagree that we are unable to find favor with God. Genesis 6:8 Noah found favor with God. There are many other passages in the scriptures where men find favor with God.

“The LORD favors those who fear Him, Those who wait for His lovingkindness.”
‭‭Psalms‬ ‭147:11‬ ‭NASB‬‬

Very similar to Acts 10:35.

“My son, do not forget my teaching, But let your heart keep my commandments; For length of days and years of life And peace they will add to you. Do not let kindness and truth leave you; Bind them around your neck, Write them on the tablet of your heart. So you will find favor and good repute In the sight of God and man.”
‭‭Proverbs‬ ‭3:1-4‬ ‭NASB‬‬

“He who finds a wife finds a good thing And obtains favor from the LORD.”
‭‭Proverbs‬ ‭18:22‬ ‭NASB‬‬

“"Now therefore, O sons, listen to me, For blessed are they who keep my ways. "Heed instruction and be wise, And do not neglect it. "Blessed is the man who listens to me, Watching daily at my gates, Waiting at my doorposts. "For he who finds me finds life And obtains favor from the LORD. "But he who sins against me injures himself; All those who hate me love death."”
‭‭Proverbs‬ ‭8:32-36‬ ‭NASB‬‬

“Now therefore, I pray You, if I have found favor in Your sight, let me know Your ways that I may know You, so that I may find favor in Your sight. Consider too, that this nation is Your people." And He said, "My presence shall go with you, and I will give you rest." Then he said to Him, "If Your presence does not go with us, do not lead us up from here. For how then can it be known that I have found favor in Your sight, I and Your people? Is it not by Your going with us, so that we, I and Your people, may be distinguished from all the other people who are upon the face of the earth?" The LORD said to Moses, "I will also do this thing of which you have spoken; for you have found favor in My sight and I have known you by name."”
‭‭Exodus‬ ‭33:13-17‬ ‭NASB‬‬

“Now the boy Samuel was growing in stature and in favor both with the LORD and with men.”
‭‭1 Samuel‬ ‭2:26‬ ‭NASB‬‬

“Saul sent to Jesse, saying, "Let David now stand before me, for he has found favor in my sight."”
‭‭1 Samuel‬ ‭16:22‬ ‭NASB‬‬

“A good man will obtain favor from the LORD, But He will condemn a man who devises evil.”
‭‭Proverbs‬ ‭12:2‬ ‭NASB‬‬
 
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The scripture says Nations ...spoken to the Jews, that believed they had special access to God that the gentiles did not ...

It says in every nation the MAN who fears Him and does what is right is welcome to Him. It doesn’t say the nation is welcome but the man in every nation.
 
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No I completely agree that we inherited their sinful nature but I disagree that we are unable to find favor with God. Genesis 6:8 Noah found favor with God. There are many other passages in the scriptures where men find favor with God.
No one doubts that the Elect find favor with God.
 
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How does a pot design itself? Peter here is addressing the church.. "The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.

This entire chapter is written to the "beloved" it is intended for the elect . God is withholding His wrath and judgement until the last of the elect come. He bears with the sins of the reprobate until the last of His people come .
 
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Finally someone understands verse 22!! God could not have endured much patience in the vessels for destruction if He had originally created them for the sole purpose of destruction. Of course God had already foreseen their disobedience before creation but He could not have had patience on them without first withstanding their repeated disobedience. So in essence they destroyed themselves.
 
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Dorethy the bible says that all of humanity was already dead to God because of sin. Already judged and condemned by the courtroom of God Romans chapter 1 . So no one will be saying any such thing about not being able to respond come judgement day.
 
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No one doubts that the Elect find favor with God.

“A good man will obtain favor from the LORD, But He will condemn a man who devises evil.”
‭‭Proverbs‬ ‭12:2‬ ‭NASB

It says a good man will find favor not a favored man will be good.
 
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“For the word of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.” 1 Corinthians 1:18 (NASB95)

“For the word of the cross is folly to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.” 1 Corinthians 1:18 (ESV)

“The teaching about the cross is foolishness to those who are being lost, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.” 1 Corinthians 1:18 (NCV)
 
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Christ is perfect, Adam and Eve were made "very good", but they were not clones of Christ since Christ was not made and they were for one thing.
God created us in his image. What's wrong with that?
 
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Yes, I agree. "Being saved" on all three. Thanks.
 
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Hebrews 6 cannot be understood apart from Limited Atonement.

That is, Christ died only for the elect and these will not fall away.

“No one who is born of God practices sin, because His seed abides in him; and he cannot sin, because he is born of God.” 1 John 3:9 (NASB95)

But others who fall away, were not the elect. So God would need to elect them for salvation, Christ would need to return to the cross to redeem them, before they could repent and experience salvation. Which is impossible according to the passage.
 
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You are reading these passages as law and obedience = works.
They are the identifiers of those God saves. We are not saved because we believe. We believe because we are saved.
 
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Unless born again you cannot see the Kingdom (salvation).
 
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She was a worshiper of God, which is why God opened her heart.

I have realized through reading the Bible that God will only supernaturally open, harden, or make stubborn our hearts if we first choose them (see Exodus 1 [starting in verse 8, the new pharaoh makes the choice to oppress the Israelites], in Exodus 5, the pharaoh refuses to free the Israelites and increases their oppression, and so in Exodus 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, and 14, God supernaturally hardens his heart, because God knew that the pharaoh refused to change).

Lydia first chose to open her heart to God, therefore God supernaturally opened it to receive Paul's message.
 
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