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To: boatbums
Well, I am really sorry but your answer left out the "and you are part of it" because Jeremiah 29 is about exiled Israelites, and I don't think you are one of them.

ignoring the point that God does not only give the promise for one time only and he is no a respecter of persons, meaning he does not show favoritism towards anyone.

Sure he does, he shows favoritism to his people, meaning the Jews. He makes that perfectly clear throughout the OT. He doesn't necessarily show favoritism individually withing the Jewish community, but as far as his preference, there is no doubt about who his people are.

So now you are asking for where scripture says God has a "plan for salvation"?

Not really. The only reason I mentioned salvation is because the so-called "plan" and "purpose" (actually boule, or counsel, in Greek), is understood by the Christians as having been the Grand Plan of God's form all eternity, namely the salvation of the elect, and Jeremiah's verses definitely do not point in that direction.

I am just curious why would God create a sinless world, let it fall, just so that he can restore it again with blood an guts. Doesn't sound like a great plan to me.

At any rate I can think of a few verses, where boule occurs, such as Luke 7:30, implying that God's purpose was to baptize the Jews by John the Baptist, which is unsupported by anything in the OT= because the OT God does not require baptism but circumcision.

Or in Acts 2:23, 4:28, 20:27...a clear pattern emerges, namely that it is Luke's innovation because nothing like it prefigures such a thing in the Old Testament.

3,536 posted on 11/28/2010 11:33:43 PM PST by kosta50 (God is tired of repenting -- Jeremiah 15:6, KJV)
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To: kosta50; boatbums
I am just curious why would God create a sinless world, let it fall, just so that he can restore it again with blood an guts. Doesn't sound like a great plan to me

When you start out wrong, you finish wrong. God created a sinless world and gave dominion over it to 'man'. Man failed, not God.

Since man had dominion, only a 'sinless' man could reclaim it. It's is/was the greatest plan ever - and carried out by pure love. It was either YOUR death or HIS - and you say it doesn't sound like a great plan?
3,553 posted on 11/29/2010 8:45:34 AM PST by presently no screen name ("Thus you nullify the word of God by your tradition that you have handed down.." Mark 7:13)
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