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To: Iscool
Apparently that's what your Church tells you but that is not what Jesus teaches in the scriptures...Those who 'don't get it' won't get it...

I see. Predestination. Lack of free will. Where's that in scripture?

They'll burn in hell for eternity...Imperfect understanding??? Not at all...It's called total rejection...

The only individual capable of total rejection was Lucifer for he had perfect knowledge of what he was rejecting. Are you saying that Jews and Muslims are Lucifer and as such are capable of rejecting Christ perfectly and totally?

63 posted on 06/27/2014 6:28:06 PM PDT by JPX2011
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To: JPX2011; Iscool
I see. Predestination. Lack of free will. Where's that in scripture?

Funny you should ask.

Romans 8:29-30 For those God foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers and sisters. And those he predestined, he also called; those he called, he also justified; those he justified, he also glorified.

Ephesians 1:3-14 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places, even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him. In love he predestined us for adoption as sons through Jesus Christ, according to the purpose of his will, to the praise of his glorious grace, with which he has blessed us in the Beloved. In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace, which he lavished upon us, in all wisdom and insight making known to us the mystery of his will, according to his purpose, which he set forth in Christ as a plan for the fullness of time, to unite all things in him, things in heaven and things on earth.

In him we have obtained an inheritance, having been predestined according to the purpose of him who works all things according to the counsel of his will, so that we who were the first to hope in Christ might be to the praise of his glory. In him you also, when you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, and believed in him, were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit, who is the guarantee of our inheritance until we acquire possession of it, to the praise of his glory.

Colossians 3:12-13 Put on then, as God's chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience, bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive.

1 Peter 2:9 But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.

Now tell us where *free will* is found in Scripture.

64 posted on 06/27/2014 6:48:41 PM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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