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To: MarkBsnr
Are you saying that the Reformed God does nothing good for the non elect?

What do you mean by "good"? God makes it to rain on the just and the unjust. To the elect God give His great joy and comfort. To the non-elect God give travails. That is what being a Christian is all about.

I should get an extra point for quoting Ecclesiastes.
10,251 posted on 11/01/2007 10:51:27 AM PDT by HarleyD
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To: HarleyD

Ah, but it is rude to point.

:::Ecc 2:26 For God giveth to a man that is good in his sight wisdom, and knowledge, and joy: but to the sinner he giveth travail, to gather and to heap up, that he may give to him that is good before God. This also is vanity and vexation of spirit.:::

All men are sinners, even the elect. Therefore we all ought to accept our travails and gather and heap up, even the Reformed elect. Now to whom do we give that which we have gathered? I suppose that this could be used in support of tithing to the Church.


10,252 posted on 11/01/2007 11:03:19 AM PDT by MarkBsnr (V. Angelus Domini nuntiavit Mariae. R. Et concepit de Spiritu Sancto.)
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