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If God designs that some people answer His call and some don't No, He does not design anyone not to respond. The design is always to respond to the call, but the free will is a part of the design. The reprobates choose to be reprobates.
1,017 posted on
08/09/2008 4:15:52 PM PDT by
annalex
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FK: If God designs that some people answer His call and some don't ...No, He does not design anyone not to respond. The design is always to respond to the call, but the free will is a part of the design.
If the design is just a general one and doesn't attach to anyone in particular, then that goes directly to my assertion that in Catholicism it doesn't matter to God which individual people come to Him, if any do. Your statement appears to support that position.
The reprobates choose to be reprobates.
On that we can agree.
1,047 posted on
08/10/2008 1:24:17 PM PDT by
Forest Keeper
(It is a joy to me to know that God had my number, before He created numbers.)
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