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That is a HARSH way to speak about the Apostle Paul (author of Romans and Ephesians). He built the modern "NT" understanding of Predestination and Election on the foundation of the "OT" teachings and examples.

Your evasion of the question referencing all of Exodus and Romans 9 noted. You could even have chosen to compare Modern Israel and Egypt if you felt so inclined. Since you are incapable of anything above "scripture pong", here is your "proof text" ... Romans 9:13

Did God treat the Israelites and Egyptians equally? "I do not think it means what you think it means." - Inigo Montoya

Greetings @St. SteVen , Let's take a shot at the OP. WARNING: I am about to engage in eisegeis. You have been warned that THUS SAYS ARTHUR, and definitely not THUS SAYS THE LORD ... so take with a large grain of salt [and some prayer would not hurt]. I don't think this had anything to do...

As long as we are on this bunny trail ... it is from the Baptists that America gets the concept of "Separation of Church and State". The Baptists were on the receiving end of state persecution from their founding and made Separation of Church and State a "Baptist Distinctive" in the 1600's. We...

Respectfully, NOBODY can read the Bible and seriously claim that there is no favoritism with God. Tell that to the Canaanites and the Egyptians ... God's OTHER chosen people. ;)

This conflates two distinct aspects of God. "God knows everything" points to His omniscience and reflects knowledge of facts. No fact catches God by surprise ... God cannot "learn" something new. [I will discuss that in your second part.] "those he foreknew" refers to PEOPLE rather than facts...

I strongly disagree … I need all the help I can get! ;) As a “little Christ” (the literal meaning of Christian), I am a “hot mess”.

Why did Jesus speak the exact same words to everyone in a crowd, yet only some responded? EARS TO HEAR. [Matthew 16:17 NASB20] And Jesus said to him, "Blessed are you, Simon Barjona, because flesh and blood did not reveal [this] to you, but My Father who is in heaven.

Does this? [Romans 8:28-30 NASB20] And we know that God causes all things to work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to [His] purpose. For those whom He foreknew, He also predestined [to become] conformed to the image of His Son, so that He would be the...

Purely an accident. I care no more for what John said than what the Early Church Father’s said. If I want advice, I prefer “Apostles” and “Prophets” already vetted and bound into 66 books that have stood the test of 2000 years (Well, sort of … there was that whole ‘apocrypha’ incident … but we...

While symbolic, it came closer to literal than most people reading it BC would have ever guessed. A virgin birth and being nailed through the foot to a tree to destroy the power of evil was probably not most Rabbi’s first guess. :)

I agree. I was merely addressing a small point of English grammar that UNTIL did not REQUIRE that the event end. The English rendering allows for the possibility (however improbable or unnatural) that Mary and Joseph NEVER had sex. I agree that Jesus had half-brothers and Mary had other...

I might not be able to avoid sounding like a Calvinist … I am a Particular Baptist (a Baptist that believes that Jesus’ Atonement was for ‘particular’ - aka. Specific - people rather that for all people in ‘general’ - aka. General Baptist). John 6:44 No man can come to me, except the Father...

My post was not directed to or at you. I know it can appear that way simply because it followed your post (just the luck of the timing of when the post dropped). There was a "theme" that resurfaced periodically across the last few pages that seemed to imply that faith cannot save until...

Luke 18:9-14 [ESV] He also told this parable to some who trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and treated others with contempt: "Two men went up into the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector. The Pharisee, standing by himself, prayed thus: 'God, I thank you...

John 3:16 [with context] [John 3:14-21 ESV] "And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of Man be lifted up, that whoever believes in him may have eternal life. For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but...

I hate getting answers like that! "WHAT???? There are 25 Chapters in Matthew! I always stopped at Matthew 24 all these years! What a fool that I have been." :rolleyes: I bet they have read Matthew 25 and Revelation. :cool:

this (pronoun): the person, thing, or idea that is present or near in place, time, or thought or that has just been mentioned what is stated in the following phrase, clause, or discourse this time or place the one nearer or more immediately under observation or discussion the one more recently...

Being a jerk isn't a crime and if we jailed everyone that said stupid things, there would be no Television. ;)