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How can God punish anyone for being chosen to go to hell?
Unless He did not say it.If God said he foreordained some to damnation, who am I to argue?
He did.Unless He did not say it.
Do you even understand what is being said? Why were they ordained to condemnation? Because God arbitrarily decided this, or because God saw in His divine foreknowledge that they would never repent of their evil ways? God does NOT arbitrarily consign anyone to Hell. They bring damnation on themselves. At the same time, God gives all repeated opportunities to repent....who were before of old ordained to this condemnation...
Of course biblical predestination is according to foreknowledge (Romans 8:29, 1 Peter 1:2 (kjv)).Do you even understand what is being said? Why were they ordained to condemnation? Because God arbitrarily decided this, or because God saw in His divine foreknowledge that they would never repent of their evil ways? God does NOT arbitrarily consign anyone to Hell. They bring damnation on themselves. At the same time, God gives all repeated opportunities to repent.
And there we have yet another episode of "Let me tell you why the Bible doesn't really mean what it said!"Do you even understand what is being said? Why were they ordained to condemnation? Because God arbitrarily decided this, or because God saw in His divine foreknowledge that they would never repent of their evil ways? God does NOT arbitrarily consign anyone to Hell. They bring damnation on themselves. At the same time, God gives all repeated opportunities to repent.
How can God punish anyone for being chosen to go to hell?
No. That is "Let me tell why you THINK the Bible says something which it does not say". Christians must take all Scripture into account, as well as the character of God and Christ into account, in order to hold to any belief. If the Bible clearly commands all men everywhere to repent and believe on the Lord Jesus Christ (which it does) that automatically means that God does not arbitrarily condemn to some to Hell. That means that God will have ALL MEN to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth.And there we have yet another episode of "Let me tell you why the Bible doesn't really mean what it said!"
And biblical predestination is for the perfection and glorification of the saints, never for salvation or damnation. God has ordained that those who believe on the Lord Jesus Christ will be "conformed to the image of His Son" (Rom 8:29,30). If God were to pick and choose whom He would save, He would be violating His own Gospel and His own character.Of course biblical predestination is according to foreknowledge (Romans 8:29, 1 Peter 1:2 (kjv)).
Not quite. Let us go to that quote from scripture again...And there we have yet another episode of "Let me tell you why the Bible doesn't really mean what it said!"
God did not arbitrarily fore-ordain anyone to condemnation...God had a reason, and that reason is explained in the scripture itself...Jde 1:3, Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you, and exhort you that ye should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints.
Jde 1:4, For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ.
If God said he foreordained some to damnation, who am I to argue?
God did not create any one only to send him to hell. It is Adam who chose to disobey God, ate of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, which God said in the day he eats of it, he will surely die. And so, in Adam all die.How can God punish anyone for being chosen to go to hell?