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To: Senator Pardek; FormerLib; rdb3; rwfromkansas; sea oats; CCWoody; RnMomof7; the_doc
"Why not? If you're a member of the elect, it doesn't matter what you do."

It hasn't gone unanswered, it is just that you don't like the answer.

The elect "want" to please God, they love Him and choose, by their free-will, to glorify His name and keep His commandments. The unregenerate don't "want" to please God, thus they confuse sin with pleasure, and lead dissipating lives chasing after their own self-interests.

It does matter what you do.

193 posted on 02/20/2002 5:02:50 AM PST by Jerry_M
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To: Jerry_M
The elect "want" to please God, they love Him and choose, by their free-will, to glorify His name and keep His commandments. The unregenerate don't "want" to please God, thus they confuse sin with pleasure, and lead dissipating lives chasing after their own self-interests.

The elect are not at present aware of their status, yet you claim that by definition, they want to please God.

Since this means that their being elect is the main reason why they want to please God, I fail to see what freewill has to do with it - one's wanting to please God or not was determined before birth.

Or is there a possibility (even just in theory) that one who is elect canlead a sinful life? If not, whether one is virtuous ornotis completely out of our hands, because it depends solely on why we are elect.

211 posted on 02/20/2002 6:10:00 AM PST by Senator Pardek
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