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The world has no true interest in scripture as ultimate truth, otherwise they would believe what is written. No one can say scripture here is for the world, not when read in context. The context is for those who have faith, called to be saints. These letters are not for the world as they speak...

No, go and look at the header of each letter, such as from Paul. They are all written to the saints in Christ. Paul, Peter, John did not write their letters to the unbelieving world, they are only for the edification of the church. They never intended unbelievers to read any of what they...

No one can honestly read 1st or 2nd Peter and claim these scriptures are written to all men, such as unbelievers. All the church letters from Apostles are written to churches which implies people who will be saved are the intended recipients of the letters, not a single one is written to the...

Peter is speaking to the beloved who will be saved, he is not speaking to the wicked that wont be saved. The WORDS are implied in the context of the verse. Otherwise your just going to read all your verses out of context. Peter is speaking to all of them that are elect according to God's...

yes, God is not willing that any of those He has given to Christ perish, and so then they don't. This verse is in total agreement with 2 Peter, who in that place is writing to God's elect. Peter did not write his letter to the unbelieving world, it is not for them to read and understand, the...

Paul describes his life before coming to Christ in Galatians 1. Only when it pleased God in God's perfect timing for Paul, did God reveal Christ in Him. Honestly that is what it means to be born of God, Christ in you. Prior to that, Paul was called Saul, but was also one of God's foreknown to...

Until God grants that you come to Christ, you can not come to Christ. In your case it just was not your time yet. Scripture says exactly that, both parts. Some people just are never granted to Know God and Christ. God does not continually work on the elect all their life, only in the fulness of...

You can not be saved unless God grants for you to know and follow Christ. The way I see it, everyone who follows a false religion until their dying day has not been granted by God to come to Christ.

When I saw that, I thought there is not much holding those girls back from murdering the kid. If someone had given them a knife, they would just as easily stabbed him over and over seeing their rage. And if you study black culture, beat downs by parents or older adults are often given to their...

There is no law saying Trump has to release his personal financial information and records. And you know they would all be leaked. The democrats continue to hunt for stuff to make Trump look bad. Some representative in the house was saying they need those records to show if Trump is a puppet of...

But why do they lack faith and patience, those that fall away? Because they have no ROOT in them, read the parable of the sower. There was only one where the seed fell that bore the good fruit, and that was the one with the good soil, which points to the good foundation that God had prepared in...

That is still not speaking of only a possibility. God never said He was saving each and every person in the world. God did say the gentiles would be saved, 'salvation has come to the gentiles', but not every single gentile is saved. Might includes the whole world of the gentle nations. At that...

Many though think the fall was not predetermined, not inevitable. If the fall was not foreseen, then the cross was not part of the original plan, but that is impossible as God knows all things that will occur, and all things are, of God, for God, to God and through God, and that leaves...

That verse does not have to tell us why He chose them, other verses tell us why He chooses, and it is due to His great love and mercy for them and that His calling according to election might (will) stand. Ephesians 2:1-5 New King James Version (NKJV) 1 And you He made alive, who were dead in...

Romans 4:18 - Bible Gateway Another verse Romans 4:18, translated might be in various ways, but this was guaranteed to happen as the Lord so said. You would not read this verse as if it might not happen. KJ21 Abraham, against all hope, believed in hope, that he might become the father of many...

You misunderstand the meaning of might be. Might here is not an uncertain probability, but an enabled probability causing it to occur. For example Exodus 36:13 And he made fifty clasps of gold, and coupled the curtains to one another with the clasps, that it might be one tabernacle. Leviticus...

29 For whom He foreknew, He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the firstborn among many brethren. If God did not predestine people, Christ would have no brethren, no one would have believed in Christ. God is building up His family, giving to Christ His...

I limit foreknow to people and not what deeds they did as it is what Romans 8 says in regards to salvation according to love and mercy. As does Peter and Ephesians say the same things. Whom He foreknew as in a relationship, it is not what He knew. Romans 8 28 And we know that all things work...

That is folly, because Jesus called Judas a 'devil' before any of that happened. I have noticed in other conversations with people who try to dispute calvinism, they seem to love Judas Iscariot.

Sure, but none of those verse say WHY you did believe. The ones that do, you dispute the meaning? As they point to God foreknowing us and then predestining us to be His. For whom He foreknew, God foreknows people personally as in love, not something they did. We do not make ourselves acceptable...