God “stacked the deck”? Are you suggesting He is a trickster?
If one reads the interaction between the serpent & Eve you can see that human kinds’ tendency to doubt God’s word existed before the serpent even came along. The father of lies coaxed along a tendency already existent.
God, however, has always been about the business of redemption from the beginning. He is, by definition, the One who is in control of the universe and owes man nothing. The post enlightenment worship of individual autonomy is today isogeted into the texts to support our notion that we are in control even of Gods redemptive plan for His people.
Being omniscient He would have known it was happening in real time, would have known it was coming, would have known what would happen...
Not to mention it was all by His Creation. He’s in charge of all of it...
Originally Posted by Rock Chuck
Originally Posted by xxclaro
Originally Posted by Rock Chuck
Rom 10:9 because, if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.
There it is in a nutshell. You believe or you don't. You're saved or you're not. There's no other option.
Seems simple enough, but what about God calling only those who he knows will answer, and not bothering with the others?
It's your choice. That fact that God already knows what it will be doesn't affect anything. It's still your choice.
Seems to me there’s not really any choice about it
