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Did God Really Change His Mind About Hezekiah Because He Never Saw the King's Response Coming? I'm going to use the following passage as a springboard for my argument: Isa 46:5-11 5 "To whom will you compare me or count me equal? To whom will you liken me that we may be compared? 6 Some pour...

I guess you didn't understand the Matthew 10 passage I quoted. Not even a sparrow falls to the ground apart from God's WILL. Or that God numbers all our days upon this earth and even the number of hairs on our head. God's decrees (in whatever form) far outnumber all the stars in the universe...

Neither do I. But I do know from scripture that God is totally Sovereign and in control of this world -- down to the tiniest, seemingly mundane, insignificant details. Have you never read: Matt 10:28-31 29 Are not two sparrows sold for a penny? Yet not one of them will fall to the ground...

So you say he's is "sovereign" and is not required to run the world that way I think, as a Calvinist? Then educate me and inform me how you require your sovereign ruler of the world to run the place. How do you KNOW God is running the world the way he wants to? Did he tell you this...

Then God cannot be omniscient. God is just like finite man: He learns, acquires, accumulates and stores knowledge? But thankfully, the bible says differently. God's Book speaks of people like you: Ps 50:21 21 These things you have done and I kept silent; you thought I was altogether like...

Do you understand the difference between theism and deism? If so, are you a deist, then? And if so, who is running this world? Anyone?

1 Cor 6:1-3 6:1 If any of you has a dispute with another, dare he take it before the ungodly for judgment instead of before the saints? 2 Do you not know that the saints will judge the world? And if you are to judge the world, are you not competent to judge trivial cases? 3 Do you not know that...

P.S. One more thought. I do agree with you that some unregenerate men seek God because there are four kinds of hearts these kinds of men have, according to the Parable of the Four Soils in Luke. Of course, only one kind of soil (heart) will bear fruit.

I think we have to understand Rom 3:11 in the larger context of scripture, most especially those passages that deal with the dismal, dire spiritual state of fallen mankind. For example, when Paul said, "No one seeks after God", my mind immediately references such texts as Jn 1:5; 3:19-20. The...

Okay...so what is YOUR understanding of God's will? Does God directly decree all things that come to past, such as his decrees in the creation account in Genesis or his three-fold post-fall decree (Gen 3:15-19, 22-24)? If so, is this the only kind of decree in scripture?

So...God Omniscient changed his mind re Hezekiah after learning that the king repented? Is that your understanding?

I agree totally. Like many universal or absolute terms, we should understand the Universal Indictment of mankind to to be limited to sinners (all those in Adam) as opposed to saints (all those in the Last Adam). All God's saints are eternally justified and will never come under God's...

None of God's DECREES can be thwarted. Did you read the two passages in Jer 26 & 36 that I cited yesterday? Do you understand what the figure of speech that is called an anthropomorphism means?

Awesome! You sound a lot like David H. Gay. (y)

Shirely U. Jest. Prove your claim.