[CynicalBear]

>>If one is face with a choice between heaven and hell, unfetter by everything around him so that he is capable of making a rational decision between going the heaven or going to hell, then why would they choose hell?<<

Why would a married pastor have sexual relations with a member of his church? Why would a priest molest a small boy? It’s called “choice”, what some would call “free will”, others would call “permissive will”. It seems to be something that Calvinists deny.

[HarleyD]

It’s called “choice”, what some would call “free will”, others would call “permissive will”. It seems to be something that Calvinists deny.

Rom 9:22-24 What if God, desiring to show his wrath and to make known his power, has endured with much patience vessels of wrath prepared for destruction, in order to make known the riches of his glory for vessels of mercy, which he has prepared beforehand for glory—even us whom he has called, not from the Jews only but also from the Gentiles?

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Luk_8:10 he said, "To you it has been given to know the secrets of the kingdom of God, but for others they are in parables, so that 'seeing they may not see, and hearing they may not understand.'

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1Co_1:27 But God chose what is foolish in the world to shame the wise; God chose what is weak in the world to shame the strong;

With good reasons.