God's Decree, Concerning the Rejection of lost souls #2. Pre-Damnation, or "DAMNATION".

Concerning the, "od's", in the OP title.

'Things happen' & that 'thing' can't be corrected.

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There is, therefore, 'ATTENTION' BROUGHT, to the Title, etc., in an 'ATTEMPT" to "Distract'.

You know that.

So, now that God Used Satan to "call your Attention" to this subject-matter, DO SOMETHING.

The Bible is IMPORTANT.

"Pre-damnation is God's Appointment,
or preordination of men to condemnation for sin;

and is what is spoken of in #Jude 1:4.

"There are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation";

and who are described by the following characters,

"ungodly men, turning the grace of God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and, or even our Lord Jesus Christ";

which, when observed, is sufficient to clear this Decree of God from the charge of cruelty and injustice:
and this, by some, is called, positive reprobation.

The word krima, translated "condemnation", in the above-quoted text, some render "judgment",
and interpret it of judicial blindness and hardness of heart;

which appeared in the persons embracing and spreading false and pernicious doctrines
spoken of; and this is, indeed, what they are foreordained, or appointed to, as a punishment of former sins;

for this hardness, &c. presupposes former sins, and an obstinately continued course in them;

either against the light and law of nature, which they like not to walk according to, and therefore God gives them up, pursuant to his decree, to a reprobate mind, to do things not convenient, #Ro 1:24,28

or against divine revelation, precepts, counsels, and admonitions, like Israel of old, hearkening not to the voice of the Lord, in his word, nor paying any regard to his instructions;

and therefore he gives them up, as he determined to do, to their own hearts' lusts, and to walk in their own counsels, #Ps 81:11,12 and this is the sense of the word in #Joh 9:39.

God hardens some mens' hearts, as he did Pharaoh's, and he wills to harden them, or he hardens them according to his decreeing will;

"Whom he will he hardeneth", #Ro 9:18

this he does not by any positive act, by infusing hardness and blindness into the hearts of men;

which is contrary to his purity and holiness, and would make him the author of sin;

but by leaving men to their natural blindness and hardness of heart;

for the understanding is naturally darkened;

and there is a natural blindness, hardness, and callousness of heart, through the corruption of nature, and which is increased by habits of sinning; men are in darkness, and choose to walk in it;

and therefore God, as he decreed, gives them up to their own wills and desires, and to Satan, the god of the world, they choose to follow and to be led captive by, who blinds their minds yet more and more, lest light should break in unto them, #Eph 4:18 #Ps 82:5 2Co 4:4 and also God may be said to harden and blind, by denying them that grace which can only cure them of their hardness and blindness, and which he, of his free favor, gives to his chosen ones, #Eze 36:26,27 but is not obliged to give it to any;

and because he gives it not, he is said to hide, as he determined to hide, the things of his grace from the wise and prudent, even because it so seemed good in his sight, #Mt 11:25,26.

A Body of Doctrinal & Practical Divinity

By John Gill

Doctrinal Divinity~Book 2

Chapter 3:

Of The Decree Of Rejection, Of Some Angels, And Of Some Men