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To: Titanites

Another unregenerate man looking for God.

I guess he got tired of God not looking for him.


12 posted on 05/26/2007 4:53:23 PM PDT by ears_to_hear
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To: ears_to_hear
Another unregenerate man looking for God.

When did you gain the power and authority to read this man's heart and judge his soul?

13 posted on 05/26/2007 4:56:44 PM PDT by Titanites
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To: ears_to_hear; alpha-8-25-02; Frumanchu; Gamecock; HarleyD; 1000 silverlings; P-Marlowe; xzins; ...
Another unregenerate man looking for God. I guess he got tired of God not looking for him.

LOL. Yep.

Although frankly, I'm starting to think perhaps these recent "conversion" stories on FR are as much a fiction of Rome as is Mary's ascension bodily into heaven.

They read like a script written by a 14-year-old.

I actually laughed about how I could claim I had been one of the best Calvinists around, but then it hit me. Was that even something to boast about?

LOLOL. So I guess the moral of the story is it's better to be a Scripturally-illiterate Romanist who follows other men and magisteriums who put their trust in "early church fathers" over the Word of God, rather than a confident Calvinist who reads Scripture by the grace of the Holy Spirit and thus knows whom he has believed.

"For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus" -- 1 Timothy 2:5

"Then shall it be for a man to burn: for he will take thereof, and warm himself; yea, he kindleth it, and baketh bread; yea, he maketh a god, and worshippeth it; he maketh it a graven image, and falleth down thereto.

He burneth part thereof in the fire; with part thereof he eateth flesh; he roasteth roast, and is satisfied: yea, he warmeth himself, and saith, Aha, I am warm, I have seen the fire:

And the residue thereof he maketh a god, even his graven image: he falleth down unto it, and worshippeth it, and prayeth unto it, and saith, Deliver me; for thou art my god.

They have not known nor understood: for he hath shut their eyes, that they cannot see; and their hearts, that they cannot understand.

And none considereth in his heart, neither is there knowledge nor understanding to say, I have burned part of it in the fire; yea, also I have baked bread upon the coals thereof; I have roasted flesh, and eaten it: and shall I make the residue thereof an abomination? shall I fall down to the stock of a tree?

He feedeth on ashes: a deceived heart hath turned him aside, that he cannot deliver his soul, nor say, Is there not a lie in my right hand?" -- Isiah 44:15-20


43 posted on 05/27/2007 12:23:20 PM PDT by Dr. Eckleburg ("I don't think they want my respect; I think they want my submission." - Flemming Rose)
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To: ears_to_hear
Another unregenerate man looking for God. I guess he got tired of God not looking for him.

So, are you saying, that if he wasn't one of the Calvinistically foreordained elect, that he was irredeemably unregenerate, and that looking for God was a futile effort? Where in the Bible does it say that?

Last time I checked, the Bible says that God is a rewarder of those who diligently seek him.

73 posted on 05/27/2007 4:49:25 PM PDT by Rytwyng (open borders = open treason)
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