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Posted on 03/10/2004 9:37:27 PM PST by malakhi
How, then, do you interpret Deuteronomy 30:15-19?
To me, this passage explicitly shows God telling us we have a free choice.
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The inference is that they deserve to be saved because they are not Judged , but found worthy due to their age or mental status. If an infant is worthy of salvation it is not by the grace or mercy of God, because they would not be judged.They simply deserve to be saved ...
You have said that God is FREE to "bless "them... not to give them mercy...bless them
Could God decide not to "bless " them"?
The non scriptural belief in the age of "accountability " makes God the debtor of the child.He owes them salvation based on something other than His mercy .
Before one can receive Mercy he must be judged guilty before the judge.. no judgment no mercy .
Can you give me scripture where the age of accountability is taught? Can you give me scripture that says all infants are written in the "Book of Life". That would mean salvation is their to lose, not Gods to give.
Calvinists are not dualists , there is no "competation" between God and Satan . God is sovereign over Satan .Satan can do nothing without the permission of God
Was it God's determinate will that Satan attempt to derail Christ from His course ?
Act 2:23 Him, being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye have taken, and by wicked hands have crucified and slain:
1Pe 1:18 Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, [as] silver and gold, from your vain conversation [received] by tradition from your fathers;
1Pe 1:19 But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot:
1Pe 1:20 Who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you,
1Pe 1:21 Who by him do believe in God, that raised him up from the dead, and gave him glory; that your faith and hope might be in God.
Happy Easter Quester and Harley
That is God created the men He knew would deny him , and that would be judged guilty and sent to hell on the day of Judgment .
Is there a scripture that says Fairness is one of Gods attributes?
Well, at least we know what all the fuss was about last night.
I didn't know the ark came to rest on top of a mountain in the Ozarks. ;o)
(KJV) But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only.
Still Jesus does not claim that knowledge for Himself, only "my Father".
I'll give you more than one.
The LORD rewards every man for his righteousness and his faithfulness (1 Samuel 26:23)
...then hear thou in heaven, and act, and judge thy servants, condemning the guilty by bringing his conduct upon his own head, and vindicating the righteous by rewarding him according to his righteousness. (1 Kings 8:32)
O great and mighty God whose name is the LORD of hosts,
great in counsel and mighty in deed; whose eyes are open to all the ways of men, rewarding every man according to his ways and according to the fruit of his doings (Jeremiah 32:18-19)
And to be fair ;o), I'll give you one from the Christian scriptures too.
And if you invoke as Father him who judges each one impartially according to his deeds... (1 Peter 1:17)
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