There goes that fella Jesus again...
"ask and you shall receive.
SEEK and you shall find.
knock and it shall be opened unto you."
HE obviously meant, 'if God wills it for you, then you can seek and find, but it won't really be you, just me playing sock puppet with your head...'
That silly Jesus.
He should have been born AFTER Calvin and the determinist cult leaders straighted out all that 'whosoever will' drivel from the Savior's teachings.
The ONE who said:
"I set before YOU today, both blessing and cursing, life and death... therefore YOU CHOOSE LIFE, that YOU and YOUR seed may live!!!!"
must have been really relieved to have the determinists straighten HIM out on that confusing free will and choice issue... "seek the lord, while he may be found" is actually meaningless fill, inserted by the arminians, to confuse those predestined to eternal life and give false hope to those preordained to damnation...
I think Jesus had it right on these matters, seeing he IS God and all... and has apparently got the market cornered on correct theology... you know being God and all.
Apparently he thought, some of us actually would want to seek him... just as he wanted to seek us.
Silly Savior... er, right?
LOL. THX.