[jwpjr]

re: one's acceptance or rejection of HIS 'only begotten' SON

I wonder if the operative term here is 'rejection'. One is not rejecting something if they have no knowledge of it. If I have strep throat and the doctor does not offer me the option of penicillin to prevent the complications that so frequently develop with untreated strep it certainly can't be said that I rejected the treatment. Especially if I went to the doc, putting my full faith in him to do what would be best for me. Seems to me rejection requires an option and absent that you can't really term it rejection. Just a thought.

[Quix]

You make an apt, fitting point, imho.

However, there's some Scriptural evidence that THOSE WHO SEEK GOD WILL FIND HIM.

No clear evidence that God will be wishy washy about those who didn't bother to seek Him.

There's some Scirptural evidence that those who fail to SEEK/FIND God, will be sorry.

Thankfully, the Hound of Heaven is fairly relentless in wooing us.

Still, particularly willful avoidance, aversion etc. is highly likely to bear an uncomfortable penalty.

[Bonaparte]

"One is not rejecting something if they have no knowledge of it."

It is written on the hearts of all men, in all the nations. The Father and the Son do not permit themselves to be hidden from anyone. This is affirmed in the Old Testament and the New.

Those who harden their hearts and live in rebellion against their own conscience, will not know Him. Those who open their hearts and listen to their conscience, thereby invite the Holy Spirit into their lives and will know the Father and the Son -- even if they have never heard the name Jesus Christ and know nothing of the Bible. If they take God's hand, he will lead them where they need to go.