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To: P-Marlowe
Oh my. Do you really mean that?

Yes, of course. I feel under no pressure to choose one over the other. I am sure God knows my choices, but He doesn't make them for me. Nor did He secretly implant them in my head. He allows us freedom because we are made in His image, so that we may regain His likleness by choosing to imitate Christ.

Only those who are truly alive in Christ know that God gives us a choice which master we shall serve. Those who are dead, well, they need to be pushed, and once they are pushed they will stay right where they were left off. They have no will of their own, nor can they use it.

"Therefore, my brothers, be all the more eager to make your calling and election sure. For if you do these things, you will never fall" [2 Pet 1:10]

Election, means choice. The phrase "your election" can be taken in two ways: either you are chosen or you choose. It is clear from the context of 2 Peter 1 that what he means by "doing" things to assure our election is obviously something we do by our choice.

4,009 posted on 08/24/2007 7:15:23 AM PDT by kosta50 (Eastern Orthodoxy is pure Christianity)
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To: kosta50

Well, I guess you are your savior. Keep up the good work.


4,010 posted on 08/24/2007 7:16:54 AM PDT by P-Marlowe (LPFOKETT GAHCOEEP-w/o*)
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