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To: Blogger

I notice that predestination is almost entirely a Romans and OT sola scriptura. Have you noticed this too?


3,563 posted on 01/02/2007 7:02:47 PM PST by D-fendr
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To: D-fendr

Not really. God's sovereign choices are all over Scripture.

In the OT, God chose Israel. He chose David over His brothers. He chose Jeremiah from his mother's womb. He chose Moses. In the New Testament, He chooses Mary. He chooses each disciple. They aren't pursuing Him, He chooses them. Why not others? Because it wasn't His will. Predestination is found in Romans, Ephesians, Revelation, 1 Corinthians, 2 Timothy etc.,

Romans deals a lot with it because Romans is basically one big theology book. The other books are dealing with specific issues the churches were facing.


3,566 posted on 01/02/2007 7:08:43 PM PST by Blogger
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To: D-fendr; Blogger; blue-duncan
I notice that predestination is almost entirely a Romans and OT sola scriptura. Have you noticed this too?

LOL. Only to someone who hasn't read the rest of the Bible.

"According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love:

Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will,

To the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved.

In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace;

Wherein he hath abounded toward us in all wisdom and prudence;

Having made known unto us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he hath purposed in himself:

That in the dispensation of the fulness of times he might gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven, and which are on earth; even in him:

In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will" -- Ephesians 1:4-11

"And when the Gentiles heard this, they were glad, and glorified the word of the Lord: and as many as were ordained to eternal life believed." -- Acts 13:48

"You did not choose Me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain, that whatever you ask the Father in My name He may give you." -- John 15:16

"Blessed is the man You choose, And cause to approach You, That he may dwell in Your courts. We shall be satisfied with the goodness of Your house, Of Your holy temple." -- Psalms 65:4

"But you are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, His own special people, that you may proclaim the praises of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light" -- 1 Peter 2:9

"But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, to those who believe in His name: who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God." -- John 1:12-13

"No one can come to Me unless the Father who sent Me draws (gk.-helko-to drag) him; and I will raise him up at the last day." -- John 6:44

"For as the Father raises the dead and gives life to them, even so the Son gives life to whom He will." -- John 5:21

"For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure." -- Philippians 2:13

3,570 posted on 01/02/2007 7:20:07 PM PST by Dr. Eckleburg ("I don't think they want my respect; I think they want my submission." - Flemming Rose)
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