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To: polishprince
If God chooses individuals for regeneration with no concern for anything regarding that individual’s beliefs, choices, thoughts, character or actions then for what conceivable reason does God choose one person over another?
13 posted on 06/04/2013 10:49:51 PM PDT by Pres Raygun (It's the economy stupid.)
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To: Pres Raygun
The hidden things belong to God and what God has revealed to us is for our knowledge.
The answer to that question belongs to God.. none of us would ever have a good answer to that one.
20 posted on 06/04/2013 11:04:10 PM PDT by American Constitutionalist
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To: Pres Raygun

“If God chooses individuals for regeneration with no concern for anything regarding that individual’s beliefs, choices, thoughts, character or actions then for what conceivable reason does God choose one person over another?”


The exact reasons we are never told. It is simply a fact. All that the Lord reveals to us on the matter is that it is according to “His grace and purpose” or His “pleasure” that He decides to pluck His own peculiar people from the fire.

God has always chosen, according to His own purpose, a peculiar people for Himself. He chose the seed of Abraham instead of any other seed in the world to accomplish His purposes and be His people. He never revealed Himself to the Greeks in any special way, or the Vikings or anyone else, giving them Prophets and special care and protection. This was to the Jews only, and not to any other.


22 posted on 06/04/2013 11:19:00 PM PDT by Greetings_Puny_Humans
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To: Pres Raygun

This is the crux of what I said...and us copied from my post
“Therefore when God chooses an individual He does knowing this and regenerates them which allows them to exercise saving faith. “

Works does not save the person...God chooses whom He wills according to His purpose. A great example is Paul...before he became a believer he was a persecutor and a murderer of Christians. There was nothing in him, nor us for that matter, that made him better than anyone else to be chosen by God..but due to grace and mercy God chooses some and bypasses others....His choice since we all deserve hell and damnation.
When God regenerates He gives us the capacity to believe in ahimsa and the Work of Christ and to come to a saving faith....not any faith in any god but rather to the faith in His Son. Apart from that grace and mercy no one, including myself, would ever believe


38 posted on 06/05/2013 8:17:49 AM PDT by polishprince
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