Then it must have been God's will that Corinthians disobey what they were taught; it was all staged.
The preaching (and teaching) of the gospel is the way that God accomplishes His will regarding the salvation of men
But men will believe (or not believe) because God predetermined them to do so, and not because someone is preaching to them, right?
I don't find scriptural evidence that Paul attempts to correct the reprobate, but rather, ... that he warns the believer against reprobation
Warns them, why? The believers will believe because, according to Reformed theology, God determined before all ages that they will be believers from.
Nothing will change that, right? It's not up to +Paul to add or subtract from God's will, correct? It must have all been then for effect because the believers have believed and disbelievers didn't, regardless of what men say or do, correct?
+Paul was just playing his part in the great God's drama, right?
I believe that there are those [who fall away after having believed]... though I believe that they are few ... that will taste the gifts of God ... and make a conscious decision to walk away from them. For such ... the reprobate ... there is no coming back
But the believing or not believing is not from them but from God, right? So, what do they have in that decision? Nothing! It's not theirs to begin with according to Reformed theology, is it?
Heb 6:4-6...
And who is this author using as authority on that? If anything, God kept coming back and offering unbelieving Jews chances to be redeemed over and over. It's mostly +Paul textproofing +Paul.
It was God's will that he (Paul) do so
Then it must have been God's will that Corinthians disobey what they were taught; it was all staged.
I don't really have a firm stand in any of the predetermination camps.
For me, ... it is a matter of attempting to ascertain how God did/does what He did/does.
I believe that such a knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high, I cannot attain unto it.
So ... however it is that He did/does what He did/does, ... I was really speaking to the grace that God gives us ... to know that we are His children.
It is His desire that we know that we are His ... and that such knowledge is not at all presumptuous.
1 John 5:11 And this is the record, that God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.
12 He that hath the Son hath life; and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life.
13 These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God.
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Romans 8:14 For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.
15 For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.
16 The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God: