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To: Ward Smythe
Yes, the chief end of man is to enjoy God and glorify Him forever. That is the purpose for which he was created.

Did you expect a different answer?

Is it selective? No, any man who comes to God through Christ will enjoy Him and glorify Him forever. Why don't all come? They don't want to. Thus, God has to give them a new heart. The effects of the Fall are much worse than you have even begun to imagine.

522 posted on 02/21/2002 10:43:49 AM PST by Jerry_M
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To: Jerry_M
But it doesn's say "the chief end of any man who comes to God through Christ will enjoy Him and glorify Him forever."

It says, "the chief end of man is to enjoy God and glorify Him forever."

Which leads me to believe it must mean "all" men.

And if that is the purpose for which man was created, man's intent and man's desire may have changed with the Fall, but man's purpose did not.

Which leads me to the conclusion that you're saying while all men were created to enjoy God and glorify Him forever, not all get to. And for those that don't get to there is nothing they can do about it.

You see, where I'm getting to is the desire in my heart to share the gospel, to evangelize is a desire that everyone will come to Christ. While I know they all won't, I still desire them all to. I have to believe that desire is God given. And I have to believe that He didn't give me the desire just to share the gospel with the people I like.

525 posted on 02/21/2002 11:01:46 AM PST by Ward Smythe
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