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To: stuartcr
Actually, I am just presenting a conundrum found in the Bible. The Bible does talk about seeking the Lord. (For example, "They that come unto God must first believe that He is and is a rewarder of them that diligently seek Him.").

And Luke 13 describes the properly diligent seeking as an agonizing thing. Jeremiah reveals that nothing else even counts as seeking. We must have a hungering and thirsting after righteousness (Matthew's Beatitudes).

So, the seeking is very serious.

But Paul drops a logical bombshell when he says that NO ONE SEEKS THE LORD.

And the only solution is the Calvinistic one. It is the same thing as the Lord was saying in John 6:44.

764 posted on 01/04/2002 1:04:22 PM PST by the_doc
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To: the_doc
Not knowing the bible, I will take your word for it. It's just another thing that I don't understand, seeking. Can't see where it's necessary, God is everywhere. Can't prove it though, and don't even want to, I just believe. Makes life a lot easier.
767 posted on 01/04/2002 1:12:42 PM PST by stuartcr
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