Free Republic
Browse · Search
Religion
Topics · Post Article

To: OrthodoxPresbyterian
Matthew 11:20-27 is pretty clearly a direct reference to the Absolute Predestination of Tyre, Sidon, and Sodom in preference to a different, foreknown Predestination which God could have chosen for them instead, but did not.

This seems to be pretty bizarre to me. What I think you just said was that the inhabitants of Tyre and Sidon and Sodom would have been more impressionable and receptive to Christ's gospel than Chorazin, Bethsaida and Capernaum were, but that God seemingly decided ahead of time that the inhabitants of all six cities were purposely set up and chosen by God ahead of time so that He could damn the maximum number of people possible.

You would think that a merciful God would have at least set things up so that three out of the six cities inhabitants could have been saved, but I guess God really isn't all that merciful. Damning people to hell must really be a lot more fun for God than I had imagined.

51 posted on 08/07/2002 8:06:18 PM PDT by CubicleGuy
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 40 | View Replies ]


To: CubicleGuy; drstevej
This seems to be pretty bizarre to me. What I think you just said was that the inhabitants of Tyre and Sidon and Sodom would have been more impressionable and receptive to Christ's gospel than Chorazin, Bethsaida and Capernaum were, but that God seemingly decided ahead of time that the inhabitants of all six cities were purposely set up and chosen by God ahead of time so that He could damn the maximum number of people possible. You would think that a merciful God would have at least set things up so that three out of the six cities inhabitants could have been saved, but I guess God really isn't all that merciful. Damning people to hell must really be a lot more fun for God than I had imagined.

God is merciful to save any of Adam's race. He would be entirely Just to damn every single human in history -- including the inhabitants of all six of these cities.

And so...

Yes, that's what Jesus did indeed day...

God Incarnate specifically stated that, if He had chosen to Grace the cities of Tyre, Sidon, and Sodom with equivalent Miracles to those which He performed in Chorazin, Bethsaida, and Capernaum, the former three cities would have responded by Repenting unto Salvation.

God chose not to do so -- Predestinating these cities to Hell, instead.

***Romans 9: 15 - 24 -- For He says to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion. So then it does not depend on the man who wills or the man who runs, but on God who has mercy. For the Scripture says to Pharaoh, For this very purpose I raised you up, to demonstarte my power in you, and that my name might be proclaimed throughout the whole earth. So then He has mercy on whom He desires, and He hardens whom He desires.

You will say to me then, Why does He still find fault? For who resists His will? On the contrary, who are you, O man, who answers back to God? The thing molded will not say to the molder, Why did you make me like this, will it? Or does not the potter have a right over the clay, to make from the same lump one vessel for honorable use and another for common use? What if God, although willing to demonstrate His wrath and to make His power known, endured with much patience vessels of wrath prepared for destruction? And He did so to make known the riches of His glory upon vessels of mercy, which He prepared beforehand for glory -- even us, whom He also called, not from among Jews only, but also from among Gentiles.

54 posted on 08/07/2002 8:20:32 PM PDT by OrthodoxPresbyterian
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 51 | View Replies ]

To: CubicleGuy
Don't you that this is an obsession with OP Tyre and Sidon and Sodom I have hardly read a thread that he hasn't mention it! He is what a co heart would say-

STUCK TO CITY PLANING!

75 posted on 08/07/2002 9:31:44 PM PDT by restornu
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 51 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
Religion
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson