[Dr. Eckleburg]

If you "lead someone to Christ," that person's name was written by God in the Book of Life from before the foundation of the world. God will have used your witness to be his earthly instrument to bring about His divine plan.

If that person does not come to Christ, it was also God's will, no matter how fervently you preach the Gospel. If God wants someone, what could possibly be strong enough to keep that person from God's grasp?

Squash hope.

To believe that God is in control of all our lives, and that God will not let any of His sheep be lost, and that only God truly knows the wheat from the tares, and that what may look to us like a tare may yet prove to be wheat, if it is God's will, is the most hopeful, egalitarian of beliefs.

[PayNoAttentionManBehindCurtain]

The doctrine of calvinism is opposed to and is an attack on the true and simple Gospel of Jesus Christ. It is heretical to teach that God, in eternity past, without respect to any decision which He foreknew that we would make, appointed some people to go to Heaven and predestined others to go to Hell. In I John 2:2 the Bible says, "He is the propitiation for our sins; and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world"

BigMack

[the808bass]

If God wants someone, what could possibly be strong enough to keep that person from God's grasp?

If only God had wanted Israel...