We know that according to Calvinism, God predestinated some to be saved and some to be lost, God passing over the lost because no one seeks after him.
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Your post starts in error. In fairness to Calvinists, not ALL Calvinists affirm that God predestinated anyone to be lost. Also, your post displays a misunderstanding of "predestination". Predestination, in a strictly Biblical way, refers, chiefly, to the final destiny of the elect and that is "to be conformed to the image of Christ" in eternity, in heaven, not in this time world.(Ephesians 1:5; Romans 8:29).
................ If there free will is in bondage, who put them in that bondage?
The
natural man does not have free will. That man cannot choose, nor desire, to follow God, in the way, shape and form that God wants followed which is in spirit and in Truth (John 4:23). The natural man's will is bound to his sin-dead nature which nature is in opposition to God. (1 Corinthians 2:14) That is why God decreed the New Birth.
Did God alter their free will so that they would only sin? Then God is directly responsible for their sin; because he bound their free will, forcing them to do nothing but sin. Therefore, when Christ died on the cross, according to Calvinism, he died for the sins not only of man, but of God.
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Yup. Always God's fault, isn't it ?
A man smokes five packs a day, KNOWING and AWARE that he could get cancer and die, and when he does, who does he blame whether vocally or silently ? God.
Or he/she drinks alcohol like water, knowing it could lead to liver disease, or lung disease, or whatever disease, and when it does and he lies there wasting away, he often grumbles: if God is, why did He let this happen to me ? Yup, God is at fault, God is the perennial whipping boy.
God tells Adam, "on the day that thou eatest thereof, thou shalt SURELY die." they eat. they died. their otherwise
sin-free will (catch that ?) is corrupted, and find out they were naked, and they hide from the God who created them, fellowshipped with them, and provided everything they would ever need in that garden, and were driven out of that garden, and they blamed God for their woes and sin.
Yup.
God's fault.
Out of the garden and therefore in labor for their needs, they become slaves to Egypt, wails, God frees them, going before them as a pillar of cloud by day and a pillar of fire by night, destroying the Egyptians out to bring them back to slavery, and in the wilderness God provides them water from a rock and manna from heaven, and they turn and blame God for giving them Moses to lead them.
Yup.
God's fault.
Always is.
Finally, God, in a time He pre-determined, becomes His own Son, puts on the form of a slave, a man, lives the obedient, sanctified, sin-free, life they are unable to live in their corrupted state, offers Himself to Himself in the Person of Christ, as a burnt offering to atone for their sins with His own blood, and guess what ?
Some people mock Him for it simply because they do not understand their sinfulness, or maybe accept responsibility for their sinfulness and rebellion, and His grace and mercy.
yeah, I know, for this last line, my post might be deleted, or censored, but I don't care.
It is as I put it.
