[Gamecock]

***It should be remembered that our Lord Jesus chastised Nicodemus for not understanding this basic principle.***

Interestingly, I never understood that passage until I became a Calvinist.

Nor did I understand the bones in Ezekiel.

Or how God could violate Jonah's free will by forcing him to go to Nineveh.

For that matter how God smacked down Paul and that effected all of his writings, and how those writings are consistent with the totality of Scripture, which all of a sudden made a lot more sense.

It now all makes sense.

Interestingly, I see a glimmer of that understanding beginning in our free will Baptist neighbor.

[HarleyD]

Interestingly, I never understood that passage until I became a Calvinist.

Funny you should mention that. I could never understand:

"The wind blows where it wishes and you hear the sound of it, but do not know where it comes from and where it is going; so is everyone who is born of the Spirit." John 3:8

...that is, until now. ;O)