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  • 1 searching on Romans 1 - 3 years ago
    It says God gave them up to a reprobate mind, I looked up the meaning or the word reprobate and found about 17 words describing that scary condition. If God gives someone a reprobate mind does that mean they are doomed and won't seek repentance or is their mind so far gone that they are happy where they are and can't seek repentance. The definition also said that calvanism says they were predestined for hell. So my question is no matter what the sin if God gives you over to a reprobate mind does he also take away the ability to repent and just leave you happy in your sin not wanting to
  • Fred Scanlan - In Reply on Romans 1 - 3 years ago
    Sanctification ,justification, redemption, are yours through faith in shed blood of Christ! This grace is given for the world! Never mind what Calvin , or Luther, or the pope think! Your salvation is complete in him. If you do not except the Lord Jesus Christ as your savior, you will know the answer when you die. The answer written, cannot be changed! Let God be true and every man a liar!
  • Stephen Wilcox - In Reply on Romans 1 - 3 years ago
    God gave them over to the mind they desired (reprobate) but He did not leave them there without the possibility of conversion We all have sinned and come short of the glory of God (our choice), But God intervened by sending His Son to pay the wages (death) by living a perfect, sinless life; nailed to a Cross; died there, and rose again and is now in Heaven to intercede for those who believe in Him. To believe as Calvinists teach that God specified who will be saved and the rest left to burn in the lake of fire is without merit. Jesus died for all ( John 3:16)! God sent His Holy Spirit (another Comforter) to teach and lead us into the perfection we must have to enter into Heaven. Everyone is on equal ground. God is no respecter of persons. Most will choose to be destroyed (Broad is the gate that leadeth to destruction and most will choose this one). Choose the narrow! You will not be disappointed and all of Heaven stands ready to get you there. We must prayer to have the mind of Jesus. Blessings, Steve
  • Bendito Palavra - In Reply on Romans 1 - 3 years ago
    Such questions we can only grapple with because God is infinitely more wise than we are:

    O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out! ( Romans 11:33)

    Romans 9 has some further development of this mystery of why the LORD bestows grace and mercy on some.

    He knows the end from the beginning, and surely he knows the point where a person, by their own free will, will remain obstinate in unbelief, thereby ratifying their own destruction.

    God does not want anyone to go to Hell:

    For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved. ( John 3:17)

    The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance. ( 2 Peter 3:9)
  • Fred Scanlan - In Reply on Romans 1 - 3 years ago
    Thou almost persuades me, until you use the word grapple. Grapple will never work, you have allowed the sin of unbelief to enter in! You cannot grapple the word of God! It is a stone that cannot be moved! A stone that only a person of faith will here. You are filling the footsteps of the elite, very well!
  • Rob - In Reply on Romans 1 - 3 years ago
    When God does something it's forever .

    You may need to know that God knows beginning to end . So his sovereign decision is not with out total knowledge.

    Can we intercede for them yes we are instructed to pray for all men . They in themselves will never repent . But God may hear and answer our prayers , but the answer is his again . Possible for them to get saved ? I'd say so but doubtful .
  • Fred Scanlan - In Reply on Romans 1 - 3 years ago
    How is it possible for you to know the eternalness of God! The whole world is full of sin, their is none righteous, no not one. Who are you to judge these things O man! Our sin has separated us from God. All have sinned and come short of the glory of God. God became poor that we might be made rich! He became flesh and dwelt among us. He has died, but one time ,on the cross that all men might be saved. This is the message! This is the message!
  • Bill - In Reply on Romans 1 - 3 years ago
    Don't stop there , get to know the Lord and his will ! Through the word and Holy Spirit !
  • Solomon Johnson - In Reply on Romans 1 - 3 years ago
    Please refer to your bible Genesis 1,2,3. Please note that the world would have been a perfect place had our ancestors: Adam and Eve been obedient. Today, the world experiences higher forms of sins, crimes, frauds, events as a result of man's disobedience.



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