Featured "those he predestined, he called....": meaning of "called"?

ROMAN'S 8:30 SAYS,

"THOSE" GOD PREDESTINED

"THOSE" HE, ALSO, secondly, CALLED, HE "NAMED", IN A SEPARATE ACTIVITY OF CALLING THEM A NAME IN ETERNITY PAST, IS REVEALED HERE IN THE BIBLE VERSE ROMAN'S 8:30!!!

THEN, IN TIME,
HE Effectively Saved them, when He JUSTIFIED THEM.

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Whew.

That's 'something else' to know.

What a thread.

I'm am going to Trust and Worship God that The Eternal Triune Godhead Got those names right.

 

But it says that those whom God called He also justified. Thus, all those who are called in the sense that “called” is used in Romans 8:30 will be justified.

 

The main ones in Scripture He'd predestinated were Moses, Jeremiah, John the Baptist, & Jesus' disciples. There were others we don't know about, same as there is today. But the rest of us had to make the choice to come to Jesus.

 

We choose to come to Jesus, we came to Him willingly, but we did not do so of our own free will. It is God who changed our hearts and regenerated us, so that we did faith willingly. The fact that we come to Christ voluntarily (i.e. willingly) does not mean we come by our own free will. Man has a will, but he does not have a free will, free from the absolute divine sovereignty of God.

Therefore although, we did make the decision of coming to Christ it was the work of God alone to regenerate us and grant us faith. The fact that we can to Christ willingly is not repugnant to the fact that God predestined us to come to faith and be justified. According to Romans 8:30 it is those whom God calls that He justifies. This call must not be His general call therefore, in which He offers the gospel freely to all men, but must be His effectual call of His own, that is, His sheep, the elect.

If we do believe and come to Christ in faith does not God justify us? Yes, He does, but we must also take into account that it is those whom He calls that He justifies and none other. All those and those only whom God has predestined He also effectually calls. All those and those only whom God effectually calls He also justifies. All those and those only whom God justifies He also will glorify.

 

I have said many times, & will continue to say long as necessary that GOD DOESN'T WANT ROBOTS ! He wants people to love & obey Him of their own volition. Remember, He told Peter thatHe's being patient because He would like ALL to come to repentance of their own free will.

No one is created predestined to be lost! ALL have a chance for salvation ! The same vat of plastic can be divided so that one part becomes a flower vase while another part becomes a garbage bin. But that bin can still be embessished & decorated into a flower vase !

 

I acknowledge that God wants people to love and obey Him voluntarily. It is not that I disagree that God wants willing obedience and love that comes from a willing heart, but I distinguish between free will and volition. Yes, God commands men to according to their volition to come to Him and worship Him. Man may do things according to his volition, that is, willingly and voluntarily without having a free will. By “free will” I do not understand doing something voluntarily or willingly, but the idea that man’s decisions are not sovereignly brought to fruition and directed by divine providence.