:::The Eastern Fathers, absolutely all of them, and Westerners before Augustine, and even after him, saw that there is no reprobation, not even negative, except in consideration of demerits. :::
You’ve gotta complete the sentence. It’s all that cherry picking of Scripture that you guys do, I guess. :)
The Western Fathers were not mixed; Augustine was the only one who wandered into this thought.
:::If you divorced yourself from your paradigm for one minute, then you would understand that “God justifies all men” can only mean God justifies those who are saved.:::
I don’t know about that. “God justifies all men” as a standalone phrase would seem to mean just that. Unless the Reformed use “all men” and “all elected men” interchangeably.
:::That is why he recalled his books and wrote the Treatise of Predestination:::
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