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To: Dr. Eckleburg
No. No one would. For all I know every single one of those children are predestined to heaven.

I'm very glad to hear that. I'd keep them from reading Chapter 3 of the Westminster Confession as well. :)

You just never know. So we preach the Gospel to all men

Logically, again, it doesn't fit with your Confession. You are out of the equation - they are predestined.

As far as any of us knows, every single person alive today could be among the elect.

That, I believe, is the only way to get any kind of good and loving God from double predestination. Obviously, I think, we both would have problems with universalism, but it would at least avoid the beast of a god who foreordains a human fetus to hell "without any foresight of faith, or good works, or perseverance in either of them, or any other thing in the creature, as conditions, or causes"

As far as someone else knows, "every single person alive today" could be among the doomed as well. IF they believe the same Confession as you. Both statements are correct as far as the doctrine is concerned. As would be the in between of some are doomed, some are saved, for no "cause" from the womb.

God is either a universalist saviour or some measure of beast.

5,752 posted on 09/16/2010 9:46:28 PM PDT by D-fendr (Deus non alligatur sacramentis sed nos alligamur.)
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To: D-fendr; Dr. Eckleburg
That, I believe, is the only way to get any kind of good and loving God from double predestination

And then you have verses such as Roman 11:32 "For God has bound all men over to disobedience so that he may have mercy on them all." Where is the double predestination?

5,769 posted on 09/16/2010 10:46:17 PM PDT by kosta50 (God is tired of repenting -- Jeremiah 15:6, KJV)
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