Posted by Lynn on 10/30/2006, 4:52 pm, in reply to "Re: New Forum" A word study on the "wicked" nearly fills all the pages in a legal pad. Some of the descriptions are unsettling to read. "The wicked through the pride of his countenance, will not seek after God: God is not in all his thoughts". (Ps 10:4) One of the verses following the one shared by Chuck [Ezek 18:23] - Pro 16:6 On the other hand, God is our creator. He knows who are His while while we are in the womb, i.e. who will believe. God calls and chooses and justifies and glorifies. Ro 9:21 Ro 8:28-30 Other examples are also found in Romans: Ro 9:11-13 Ro 9:18 We have a choice to believe or not to believe and yet He knows our hearts and minds before we are born. This is hard to fathom. Lynn
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"Have I any pleasure at all that the wicked should die? saith the Lord God: and not that he should return from his ways, and live?"
By mercy and truth iniquity is purged: And by the fear of the Lord men depart from evil.
Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour?
And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose. For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren. Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified.
(For the children being not yet born, neither having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him that calleth) It was said unto her [Rebecca], The elder shall serve the younger. As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated.
Therefore hath he mercy on whom he will have mercy, and whom he will he hardeneth.
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