[stuartcr]

Just an observation but, it would appear to me that if people seek, but do not end up thinking as you do, then they didn't seek hard enough.

[the_doc]

Actually, I am just presenting a conundrum found in the Bible. The Bible does talk about seeking the Lord. (For example, "They that come unto God must first believe that He is and is a rewarder of them that diligently seek Him.").

And Luke 13 describes the properly diligent seeking as an agonizing thing. Jeremiah reveals that nothing else even counts as seeking. We must have a hungering and thirsting after righteousness (Matthew's Beatitudes).

So, the seeking is very serious.

But Paul drops a logical bombshell when he says that NO ONE SEEKS THE LORD.

And the only solution is the Calvinistic one. It is the same thing as the Lord was saying in John 6:44.