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No, reconciliation is a gift. Some accept that gift by believing in Him, some to do not. Any limiting is done, not by God, but by the disbelievers.

What you are receiving isn't there. I suspect that you are hearing something that is not in the scriptures but can be found in a number of erroneous and misleading sources.

And you are giving us a hint that you are one such chosen.

Talking to yourself again, I see. You really should stop that. I makes you look a bit silly.

Romans 5:10 doesn't really say what you are trying to make it say. That is a bit of eisegesis in your interpretation.

Those who were reconciled to God became the elect. God knew who would believe, repent of their sins and be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ. It were they who were reconciled. God foreknowing who they would be from even before the creation selected them. They became the elect by that very...

Faith isn't by believing in God. Faith is believing in God. Faith, by definition, means belief in God, in Jesus Christ, in the gospel. They are the same word, the noun πίστις [pistis], in the Greek. The verb form is πιστεύω [pisteuō} meaning to believe, to have faith.

But they did die spiritually the instant they disobeyed even if they didn't die physically for many, many years after disobeying. In fact they didn't die physically because they ate from the forbidden tree. Rather, they died physically because they no longer had access to the fruit of the tree...

Death is an integral part of the entire physical creation. Nothing physical has been made eternal. It is the desire of each person that conceives and gives birth to sin, not Adam's. Heb 9:27 And just as it is appointed for man to die once, and after that comes judgment, If it is appointed...

That is an absolute affront to God, Himself. Eze 18:1 The word of the LORD came to me: Eze 18:2 "What do you mean by repeating this proverb concerning the land of Israel, 'The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set on edge'? Eze 18:3 As I live, declares the Lord...

The only thing that has been passed down from Adam is human nature. That is a tendency to sin. But the tendency to sin is not itself a sin. Spiritual death, not physical death, is the result of the sin of the individual, not the sin of Adam. Physical death is an integral feature of the creation.

Romans 5:19 is speaking of the spiritual; 1 Corinthians 15:22 is speaking of the physical. No matter what you believe is the reason for disobedience, it remains that disobedience is a choice.

The belief in Original Sin is a form of universalism. Original Sin is the belief that God universally imputed Adam's sin to all mankind.

Like so many, you fail to understand what Paul was saying in that verse or in the entire passage of Romans 5:12-19. In verse 19 you clearly interpret the "many" that were made sinners by Adam's disobedience to be the entire human race. And though in verse 15 Paul says that the effect (grace)...

Your words, your thoughts. Heb 11:1 Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen. None of that is applicable to God, the Son, Jesus Christ.

The very concept of the faith OF Christ is only meaningful in the sense the religion, the system whereby salvation is available to all who believe in God. Jesus having a faith, namely believing in God in the absence of proven fact, is an absolutely ludicrous concept. Any such thoughts about such...

I would bet that you think you are one of those who have been selected for reconciliation. But of course, in Calvinism you have no way of knowing that.

So then, according to your position of faith being a gift from God, for all those who will receive eternal condemnation, it can only be God's fault for not giving them the gift of faith. God is the reason for all those who are not saved. Such a terrible view of God. That is, of course...

Faith is not a gift. If it were, then God is remiss in not giving that gift to everyone universally. Thus if faith is a gift, and necessary for salvation, then it is God's fault that any are lost.

You might as well ask why God put the tree of knowledge of good and evil in the Garden. According to so many, the reason that all men sin is because Adam and Eve ate the fruit from that tree, so then all the evil that Saul committed before his conversion was ultimately because of that cussed...