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Which goes back to my original question. How can God damn a cat for not being a dog and be called Just? If my nature is to sin. If I am wired from the womb to sin and sin willfully, then how can a just God damn me for that?

Dogs cannot become cats. Cats cannot become dogs.

But sinners become the inhabitants of Heaven by God's eternal decree as part of His divine plan for creation, known by Him from before the foundation of the world.

JohnnyM you do realize that the Doc didn't answer this question, nice feel good post Doc, but this is one of the reasons you will never sell me on Calvinism, you can't answer this question because Calvinism is not true. You can dance around it, jump over it, run away from it, but the fact is you can't simply answer it. I've watched you guys for years here go thru all kinds of mental gymnastics with questions like this one. Tells me and others all we need to know about Calvinism.

BigMack

What's the big problem here, Mack? We're all fallen and we can't get up.

God lifts us.

If we've been lifted, we're saved.

Have you been lifted, Mack? Do you confess Christ as your Lord and Savior? Do you repent of your sins and try to live a life that glorifies God?

If yes, then guess what? You're saved!

But not because of anything you did. Not because you, by the force of your will or the charm of your smile, can morph a dog into a cat, or change your sinful nature into one that desires only God.

You are saved because your name was written in the Book of Life from before the foundation of the world, and because God wanted you, and nothing in His creation could keep you from Him.