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To: D-fendr

“Unless you are born lucky of course.”


That’s a pretty perverse way of describing the unmerited love of God. Does God have the right to have “mercy on whom he will have mercy, and whom he will he hardeneth” or not? (Rom 9:18) Does God have the right to select for Himself His own peculiar people, as he has done since the days of Abraham, leaving out the Gentiles for centuries, and at that, leaving out Esau who had been the seed of Abraham before either he or his chosen brother had “done good or evil”?


30 posted on 08/05/2013 1:40:26 PM PDT by Greetings_Puny_Humans
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To: Greetings_Puny_Humans
That’s a pretty perverse way of describing the unmerited love of God

No, it is an accurate description of Calvinist double predestination. And it portrays a whimsical god more similar to those of the pagans than to Christ and the Most Holy Trinity.

34 posted on 08/05/2013 2:03:13 PM PDT by D-fendr (Deus non alligatur sacramentis sed nos alligamur.)
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