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I guess I have never believed in predestination or that we are fated, even doomed, to wind up in any particular circumstance. So it's a curious concept to me.
For example, I don't think that an innocent baby is born doomed to shoot up a school one day. That isn't part of any kind of a divine plan, that is something a person does of their own free will.
I dont think so either. Why do you think one sibling among others decides to do such a thing?
As one who believes in Christ, and believes I am "saved", could I be deceived if I'm not in fact predestined as one of the " elect"? Even if I confess belief, faith, and love for God?
My only point was that Love is a choice, and I used spousal love as a metaphor.
The opposite of love is hate.
A father who walks away from his children and becomes a deadbeat dad is not acting in a loving way. In fact, his actions might cause his children to suffer immensely. He has abandoned his responsibilities and dumped them on someone else.
God would never abandon his children. He is there for all of us.
As one who believes in Christ, and believes I am "saved", could I be deceived if I'm not in fact predestined as one of the " elect"? Even if I confess belief, faith, and love for God?
Nothing happens that God did not predestine. This is not only logical given His omniscience and omnipotence, but something that is thoroughly supported in the Bible.
Hogwash! There is no further description needed for such a preposterous belief.
But understand this, that in the last days there will come times of difficulty. For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, without self control, brutal, not loving good, treacherous, reckess, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having the appearance of godliness, but denying its power. Avoid such people.
What if he is mentally compromised? If you dont have all your faculties functioning can you still have control over your actions?
If the person is incapable of understanding the difference between right and wrong then they won't know if they are doing something wrong.
God would know whether the person didn't understand what they were doing.
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