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Originally Posted by Aquila
Paul wrote:
1 Timothy 2:1-4 King James Version (KJV)
2 I exhort therefore, that, first of all, supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks, be made for all men;
2 For kings, and for all that are in authority; that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty.
3 For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour;
4 Who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth. I believe it is our duty to pray for the salvation of all men. Even those whom we might believe didn't receive the fullness of divine truth. In this, we pray for them while they are alive, praying that they come into the knowledge of the truth and be saved. For those who came only so far, I believe that we continue to pray that they receive greater understanding. |
The above is excellent, and proper.
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Originally Posted by Aquila
And those who perish in that state, I believe in praying that God has mercy upon them. And at that point, the book is closed. At that point, it is in the hands of God. And I believe that whatever judgment God makes concerning a soul in the judgment is righteous, just, and true. It's my last and final prayer of intercession for those who I know are in desperate need of a sovereign grace.
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Again, this is making out God to be the bad guy, because if He doesn't have mercy on the law breakers He wasn't as merciful as WE are? Jesus and the apostles lined it out for us. Paul is telling Timothy that we are to be tearing it up in prayer that they come to the Truth. Those Judeans who continued in the Law of Moses and rejected the teachings of Messiah were lost. Same way as the Kabbalist Gnostic Judaizers, while they were probably sweet as pie, they were still rebuked at their judgement. Mercy isn't mercy, if people climb up another way, and that other way wasn't given out as an option for the rest of us. Dig it?
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