[Just mythoughts]

As we both know, there is the concept of free will. Luther and the Protestants going their own way was an act of free will, just as someone who decides to murder one of his fellow humans is an act of free will, or those who take drugs is an act of free will, or those that become prostitutes and johns is an act of free will. Need I go on? God allows man to make choices in life based on free will, but that doesn’t make those choices all good ones. And the splintering of the Christian religion into a multitude of sects was not a good choice.

Welll now Scripture says 'free will' is more than a concept. Paul says that there are those Ephesians 1:4 'According as He hath chosen us (election) in Him *BEFORE* the 'foundation of the world', (actually a verb meaning casting down - overthrow) that we should be holy and without blame before Him in love:

5 Having *predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to Himself,

according to the good pleasure of His will,

To the praise of the glory of His grace, wherein He hath made us acceptable in the Beloved:

Matthew 13:10 And the disciples came, and said unto Him, "Why speakest Thou unto them in parables?"

11 He answered and said unto them, "Because it is given unto you to know the *mysteries* of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it is NOT given. Christ then quotes Isaiah 6:9-10

We this day have benefit of the parables and then the private explanation Christ gave the disciples and yet there is still the majority that read right over the explanation or ignore the parables entirely.

[flaglady47]

“We this day have benefit of the parables and then the private explanation Christ gave the disciples and yet there is still the majority that read right over the explanation or ignore the parables entirely.”

Speak English. I have absolutely no idea what you are trying to say. No bible quotes, just plain English please, so I can try to understand your point.