[Gamecock]

At the risk of sounding like a broken record, why does one person's will respond and the other's doesn't?

Or why were you and I born in a nation where the Gospel is preached, and so many aren't?

[Quix]

NOTING the SCRIPTURAL

BOTH/AND

regarding FREE WILL AND PREDESTINATION

does not automatically force us to understand or know the whole of God's mind about anything . . . much less that sort of question.

Asking absurd questions is not likely to produce reasonable results about spiritual, intellectual, . . . a variety of matters . . . and least about the Mind of God.

[Alamo-Girl]

At the risk of sounding like a broken record, why does one person's will respond and the other's doesn't?

Or why were you and I born in a nation where the Gospel is preached, and so many aren't?

The answer is right there in the Scriptures:

Therefore hath he mercy on whom he will [have mercy], and whom he will he hardeneth.

Thou wilt say then unto me, Why doth he yet find fault? For who hath resisted his will?

Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed [it], Why hast thou made me thus?

Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour? - Romans 9:18-21