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To: HarleyD; ladyinred
There is no dispute that not all understand the Call and consequently not all are saved.

The issue is, how does God call everyone and not call everyone at the same time in the Calvinist framework that denies free will?

For the Church, there is no conundrum:

God made man a free [agent] from the beginning, possessing his own power, even as he does his own soul, to obey the behests (ad utendum sententia) of God voluntarily, and not by compulsion of God. For there is no coercion with God, but a good will [towards us] is present with Him continually. And therefore does He give good counsel to all. And in man, as well as in angels, He has placed the power of choice (for angels are rational beings), so that those who had yielded obedience might justly possess what is good, given indeed by God, but preserved by themselves.

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it is in man's power to disobey God, and to forfeit what is good


44 posted on 10/01/2006 6:47:26 PM PDT by annalex
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To: annalex; ladyinred
The issue is, how does God call everyone and not call everyone at the same time in the Calvinist framework that denies free will?

For the Church, there is no conundrum


45 posted on 10/02/2006 5:21:10 AM PDT by HarleyD ("Then He opened their minds to understand the Scriptures" Luk 24:45)
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