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Originally Posted by Dedicated Mind
mtd, v10 proves predestination and that human effort will be expended to ensure our predestination, not that human effort in any way decides our salvation. we are predestined based on god's foreknowledge of our freewill choices and we are called to be holy,
Ephesians 1:4
New Revised Standard Version (NRSV)
4 just as he chose us in Christ[ a] before the foundation of the world to be holy and blameless before him in love. |
I think the term predestined is being misapplied to the passages, to be predistined is not to say you are saved. It mearly says that it is God's will for all to be saved. "God is not willing that any be lost but that all come to repentance". The cross mearly made the way garenteed, but does not make some saved because God chose one over the other. Jesus said, "I am the way" It is God's will that all find the way, in this God predestined all to find the way. whether one does or not is up to man or the individual.
That being said, I believe the kingdom of God is in full force today as it ever will. Just as those that live in America are all called Americans not all are truly Americans for they do not give thier allegiance to America. All are under the rule of God in his kingdom yet not all are Christians (if I might use that word) for not all have given thier life to God through Christ.
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