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Hello @shnarkle,
I did understand your question. However, I responded as I felt I should in the light of the context of the verse you quoted. As for me, I don't know what I would do in those circumstances except cast myself upon God's mercy. Yet, if I could have it in me to do that, I would not be either a 'wolf' or a 'tare' would I? I would be incapable of it, not being a sheep or wheat!
I have had a further thought in regard to Israel, and the words concerning the Potter: that he had power over the clay, 'of the same lump' to make one vessel unto honour and another unto dishonour. It was the same lump. They were all of Israel (of the same lump): some became part of the believing remnant, the rest of the nation would fail to acknowledge their Saviour, Messiah and King. Yet in the age to come, God will forgive Israel's iniquity and remember it's sins no more, when it ultimately repents and receives the Messiah, as prophesied. That generation saw the destruction of Jerusalem and their temple and were scattered throughout the globe, a loammi people, no longer the people of God. Yet that will not always be so, they will be restored.
God is a merciful God, slow to anger and swift to bless.
Praise His Holy Name!
Thank you so much shnarkle,
for being a blessing to me.
In Christ Jesus
Chris
Hello @shnarkle,There's a certain logic to assume that given that we're all fallen because of Adam's sin, we must all be redeemed through Christ. This is more in line with the parable of the separation of the wheat from the chaff than the tares from the wheat. We die to this world like the husk is discarded that the kernel may grow. If that's the case, then it's really not a matter of eternal damnation in the traditional sense, but one of simply waking up to the reality of Christ alive in the world.
Until we're ready to see that life isn't about us, but rather about Christ, we're condemned to live a life of torment. This is what is within us, and must manifest as torture to everyone around us. When we see that we're intimately connected to Christ so much so that our lives are lost in Christ, then as Augustine once said, we "step into eternity".
This is interesting. I have never connected that the "whole lump" was speaking of Israel. I thought it was all people, Christians also. It brings me comfort to know this as, the Calvinists refer to this as ALL people, Christians too.
And, your answer to the OP is also comforting, better than offing oneself, lol...yes, "cast ourselves upon His Mercy"...and they ARE new everyday ♥
Hello @shnarkle,
Lovely as this is, and I thank you for sharing it. Is it in line with the subject of the original question? Based on Romans 9:21-22 and the vessels of wrath, fitted for destruction?
* What is coming home to me in these verses at the moment, is that God 'endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted for destruction', to shew His 'wrath', and to 'make His power known': but also that He might 'shew forth the riches of His glory'.
* God had to do what He had to do to get the job done. Who are we to question the means by which He achieved His eternal goal,
Let us put the situation Paul was talking about into perspective. He was speaking of vessels of wrath, for fit destruction right? And he was speaking to the following...It most certainly is, and I pointed that fact out in your last post. I will do the same here as well.
Yes, that is correct.
Here is where you have wandered off onto your own topic rather than address the Given topic. I am not asking you what you think God could or couldn't say or do. I am presenting a situation which Paul presents in Romans 9, and asking you to place yourself into that HYPOTHETICAL situation Paul presented as if this had been revealed to you.
Instead of doing that, you have decided to pretend that God didn't reveal this to you at all, and you have even provided reasons which I couldn't care less about as this has nothing to do with what I posted.
Sorry that your response is irrelavent, but it is what it is.
you asked me what would I change if God told me I was a vessel of wrath. But I say that is impossible,
There is with Paul, and most would agree that Paul's writings were inspired by the Holy Spirit. Would you agree with that assessment? Do you agree that the Holy Spirit is God, or at least divine?
Quite true!
Again, no argument.
So why are you admittedly wasting your time with this HYPOTHETICAL?
I received Christ when this was revealed to me,
He has the power to change vessels.
I'm simply asking that YOU ponder it as well with the added stipulation that God will not repent or change his sovereign mind. Paul points out that we needn't question whether or not God is just in doing any of this. Why? Because for Paul and his argument, it's quite simply a Given.
What you asking is impossible, for three years Christ tried to persuade the Pharisees of what your asking with no success. The only truth about God or ourselves we’re allowed to see is what he allows us to see.Again, you seem to be ignoring the question I actually posted. I'm not asking you if you are a vessel fitted for destruction, but hypothetically what you would do if God revealed you were a vessel fitted for destruction. No one receives Christ when they are damned to hell for all eternity.
Please be so king as to reveal where scripture describes wolves being changed into sheep, or tares into wheat.
Better yet, please note that the OP isn't about your ideas or theology, but about what you would do IF you were a vessel fitted for destruction. Note also the particulars of this OP which states:
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What you asking is impossible,
Then you should have no problem showing me that it’s possible for God to show someone their doomed to hell with no chance of redemption??On the contrary. It is not only possible, but I actually asked the question in this OP. What is quite evidently impossible is for you to actually address the question that was asked. If you have no desire or are incapable of addressing the question asked, then why are you bothering to high jack the OP with your own irrelevant posts? Why not just start your own thread instead?
Why are people responding to troll shnarkle? Just another individual determined to sow the seeds of spiritual confusion.Then you should have no problem showing me that it’s possible for God to show someone their doomed to hell with no chance of redemption??
And why are you attempting to hijack this forum?...why are you bothering to high jack the OP with your own irrelevant posts?
Then you should have no problem showing me that it’s possible for God to show someone their doomed to hell with no chance of redemption??
Ok my friend, I’ll play what if. If God was to tell me that I had no chance at redemption, I would most likely continue in my sins, trying to justify myself in any way possible and die eventually, but, awake to judgement, and as I’m cast off into the lake of fire the last thing I’d most likely hear is all of creation applauding we’re rid of that, and I’d have to agree he’s righteously done so.Not only is it possible, but Paul explicitly points out that God is just and righteous to do so. Again, simply read the OP to see Paul's own words. Better yet, how about addressing the HYPOTHETICAL question presented instead of rambling off on any more of these pointless tangents?
If you are incapable of addressing a simple HYPOTHETICAL question, why are you even bothering to respond at all?
One does not need to show that unicorns or fairies exist in order to ask a HYPOTHETICAL question regarding involving unicorns or fairies.
Ok my friend, I’ll play what if. If God was to tell me that I had no chance at redemption, I would most likely continue in my sins, trying to justify myself in any way possible and die eventually, but, awake to judgement, and as I’m cast off into the lake of fire the last thing I’d most likely hear is all of creation applauding we’re rid of that, and I’d have to agree he’s righteously done so.
So Paul has presented a hypothetical situation which I've been pondering for quite some time. I've also asked a number of people what would they do if God himself revealed to them that they were a vessel fitted for destruction, what would they do differently, if anything? Why?
It's a question most Christians simply refuse to answer. They will protest that God would never do something like this. Perhaps, but then that's quite simply not the point. The point is that Paul has presented this scenario for us to ponder, and I'm simply asking that YOU ponder it as well with the added stipulation that God will not repent or change his sovereign mind. Paul points out that we needn't question whether or not God is just in doing any of this. Why? Because for Paul and his argument, it's quite simply a Given.
He also plays devil's advocate by asking if one is only carrying out God's will, why would they be to blame? In other words, if one is created to live a sinful life anyways, why is that his fault? Paul's response? Shut up. In other words, Paul is not presenting an argument to justify sin. Most people will deny Paul is even making this argument, but there's really no reason for Paul to point out that God is just in the first place if he weren't making the argument that God predestines people for glory, and the rest aren't.
If it were left up to our own free "will and effort" (vs. 16), then Paul wouldn't need to point out God's righteous judgment, nor the fact that it is by God's promise that his will is acccomplished. God insures his plans are carried out, not us.
So, knowing you're damned to eternal damnation, would you continue to troll poeple on the internet? Would you continue to go to church knowing you're destined for hell? Would you continue to read the bible, or teach your children to study the bible, knowing full well that God's righteous judgment and wrath is upon you?