It gives them something to do (preach to the reprobate as if that will save them!) until they get the limo ride to heaven. But those who don't read the Bible and have no clue what is what in it, they get to go to heaven too...
It's like all other activities in the Reformed waiting room. Whether it's fornication (as Luther says), or whether it's bible reading, or whether it's praying or just plain being nasty, it makes no difference: they are all going to heaven, just because!
But, don't forget, it's not for their benefit; it's for God's glory. Somehow, their salvation will bring glory to God! (I am shaking my head)
***What does the Bible have to do with Reformed Salvation?
It gives them something to do (preach to the reprobate as if that will save them!) until they get the limo ride to heaven. But those who don’t read the Bible and have no clue what is what in it, they get to go to heaven too...
It’s like all other activities in the Reformed waiting room. Whether it’s fornication (as Luther says), or whether it’s bible reading, or whether it’s praying or just plain being nasty, it makes no difference: they are all going to heaven, just because!
But, don’t forget, it’s not for their benefit; it’s for God’s glory. Somehow, their salvation will bring glory to God! (I am shaking my head)***
Exactly. If they are going to heaven no matter what, it matters not what they do or don’t do; nor does it matter why.
If (God forbid), Forest Keeper (e.g.) was of the selected elected elite and decided that he would spend the rest of his life murdering left handed Carmelite nuns simply because it occurred to him to do it, then he would go to the Reformed heaven regardless of his actions.
Preaching the Gospel to the unelected still appears to me to be taunting them with blessings that they can never attain; preaching the Gospel to the elected is a waste since they are saved to the Reformed heaven no matter what anyone does or does not do.
Going to heaven just because and I am going and you are not so nah nanny boo boo to you seems more like third grade girls taunting each other than serious theological foundations.
I’m still not sure how God gets glorified with creating and then predestining human barbeques. Is it the thrill of the spectacle that so attracts the Reformed God?