Hi Pilgrim,

Man can choose to reject God after being saved by God's kindness. Cf. Rom 11:22, Heb 10:26-29, 2 Pt 2:20-21, 1 Cor 9:27.

Those faint of heart should know that hope, being a theological virtue, has not limitations. We can hope for all things. Cf. 1 Cor 13.

Next, I do not speak of man's sovereignty apart from God, but only of man's partaking in God's sovereignty through God's choice. "He chose us."

Scripture says we have been made "partakers in the divine nature". Cf. 2 Pt 1:4. Some words for this one Nature are "sovereignty" or "power" or "love". "God is love." Cf. 1 Jn 4:8.

EPHESIANS 3:

14For this cause I bow my knees to the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,

15Of whom all paternity in heaven and earth is named,

16That he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened by his Spirit with might unto the inward man,

17That Christ may dwell by faith in your hearts; that being rooted and founded in charity,

18You may be able to comprehend, with all the saints, what is the breadth, and length, and height, and depth:

19To know also the charity of Christ, which surpasseth all knowledge, that you may be filled unto all the fulness of God.


Therefore we can be filled with the sovereignty of God. This is why we can intercede for all men though Christ.. Cf. 1 Tim 2:1-2etc. By making us partakers of the Divine Nature, God asks us to help Him draw all things to Himself.

Jn 12:

32And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all things to myself.


Last edited by patricius79; Tue Sep 15, 2009 9:07 PM.