All the ELECT please stand up

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Grailhunter

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Oh. Wow.
Sounds like there's a story behind that.

Oh for sure, most of it funny. We pulled in to get a part we needed for repairs. Nice piers and growing tourist area and we were going to
get about 12 hours of shore leave. The part was on the pier when we got there, but I did not make it far off the pier before we got word
that the Italian government wanted us to leave. So much for my Italian experience.
 

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GodsGrace, you replied to my post that was in reply to Grailhunter. That seems contradictory to your excuse post responses when I asked you politely to read the links to posts in this thread.

A child of God does not mock the Word of God. Your mockery, in your post, of God's Word is very telling of your nature.

I now take the time to remind you that Lord Jesus said:

"you did not choose Me, but I chose you"
(John 15:16)

Meaning either (1) Lord Jesus transforms a heart of stone into a Godly heart (Ezekiel 36:26), or (2) the heart of stone remains in the world stored up for fire and the destruction of the ungodly (2 Peter 3:7).

As an aside, I told you earlier on in this thread I might stop answering your questions if I sensed that you did not read the posts linked into this thread.

The Blood of Jesus, such a sacrifice, that saves my life - THANK YOU JESUS, MY LORD AND MY GOD!

Well, time to get back to woe to you free willers.

She wasn't mocking the word of God, but how many times you cut and paste the same post over and over. You only teach one of the five doctrines of Calvinisim. We get it. You think anyone with a free will isn't saved.

But how can you sin if you've lost your free will and are controlled by God?
 
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GodsGrace

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Oh for sure, most of it funny. We pulled in to get a part we needed for repairs. Nice piers and growing tourist area and we were going to
get about 12 hours of shore leave. The part was on the pier when we got there, but I did not make it far off the pier before we got word
that the Italian government wanted us to leave. So much for my Italian experience.
:(
 

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Oh for sure, most of it funny. We pulled in to get a part we needed for repairs. Nice piers and growing tourist area and we were going to
get about 12 hours of shore leave. The part was on the pier when we got there, but I did not make it far off the pier before we got word
that the Italian government wanted us to leave. So much for my Italian experience.
The irony of former fascists, huh? lol
 

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She wasn't mocking the word of God, but how many times you cut and paste the same post over and over. You only teach one of the five doctrines of Calvinisim. We get it. You think anyone with a free will isn't saved.

But how can you sin if you've lost your free will and are controlled by God?
zing
 
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GodsGrace

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The whole point was to be somewhere that people would not expect. Not going to swear to it, but with the mountain
range, I think it was Palermo.
Could be.
There's also Bari.
and others.
of course you'd go to one of the least popular.
later...
 

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Italy is forever changed by that episode i guess, and from what i understand we Americans would baffle them with our "don't like America, leave it" type language...baffled as in "don't you realize what that is?" baffled. One of their most treasured playwrights just passed about a year ago, who was it, dang...
https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Dario_Fo
an Anarch treasure to be sure :)
but i gotta say we're dubbing Tom Petty "poet laureate" too, so...yay!
dunno who ezackly that "we" is though, sorry
 

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i get tired of this idea that God selects individuals for salvation. These are called “the elect”.
There is not a person on here that can PROVE they are one of the elect. You can’t demonstrate anything physically. You can’t point to anything in the Bible that proves that you personally have been selected. You can only point to generic passages talking about election. And in those passages there is NOTHING that points directly to you.
So, I want ALL those who think God chose you for election to please stand up and PROVE IT!!!

To be saved is to be elect. There is no difference. The Scriptures plainly teach the assurance of salvation. Do you deny this?
 

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I look at the elect a little like we have a president elect. He has been chosen but has not yet taken...his station. And so we have been chosen by God, He showed us mercy and favor and blessed and blesses us. But we have not yet taken our station.