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To: newblood
Is God pleased to be displeased? Can God be displeased by His own actions? Then God cannot choose eternal death for one man while granting another eternal life without the first man's consent to sin and the second's to life. God will not make a sinner repent or make a man choose sin. God has given this power of choice to man. - newblood

God has ordained eternal death for those who choose to hate Him. God has not made them choose sin. They have freely chosen to Hate him.

God has also by His grace and for the sake of His Name quickened out of those who choose to hate Him a number known only to Him from every nation and tribe and tongue and people group without their prior consent. He caused the light of His glory to shine to their dead spirits and has transformed their dead spirits into living spirits. When our spirits saw the glory of the Living God in faith, we fell to our knees and repented of all our evil. God did not make us repent. We repented of our own free will when we saw the Radiant Brightness of our Creator.

God views the macrocosm world that He created to display His glory and has immense pleasure in it. - CCWoody

Gen 6: 6 ¶ And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.
7 And the LORD said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them.
8 ¶ But Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD.

So, you would be suggesting with this verse that God neither has pleasure when looking and the individual wicked and God also has no pleasure in the display of His glory? BTW, how did Noah find grace? Was he the only righteous person on the whole earth? Did God not know that this was going to happen?

Since there is no other name given by which a man may be saved, how can a person call upon Y'shua and be saved if they never ever have a chance to hear the gospel? In what sense does God call to salvation these people? - CCWoody

Psalms 19:1 The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork.
Psalms 97:6 The heavens declare his righteousness, and all the people see his glory
Romans 1:20 For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse:

Ok, you have made a convincing case that man is without excuse. How many of these people who never ever hear the gospel one time will be saved?

57 posted on 02/14/2002 7:37:29 PM PST by CCWoody
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