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[color:"blue"] I site all verses you have displayed, and all verses of scripture. Each verse you have shown I have used to show you how you read it legalistically and thus unprofitably for your life and your spirit fatalistically.

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Pray tell, I believe you are utterly self-deceived and a ...... for there is not ONE verse, not even a reference to a verse of God's holy Word in your reply above. You have used not one single passage of Scripture to show me anything. All you have done is spew out more gibberish and Platonic philosophy.

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[color:"blue"]May I suggest that you and I believe in two different Gods . . .

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Yes, you may suggest this. And in this one thing we can agree. We do, without question, believe in two different Gods. Your "god" is the god of this world:

2 Corinthians 4:3-5 (ASV) "And even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled in them that perish: in whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of the unbelieving, that the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should not dawn [upon them]. For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus as Lord, and ourselves as your servants for Jesus' sake."

And the God of the Bible is no spectator but a participant in your blindness as well, as the inspired Apostle John says:

John 12:39-40 (ASV) "For this cause they could not believe, for that Isaiah said again, He hath blinded their eyes, and he hardened their heart; Lest they should see with their eyes, and perceive with their heart, And should turn, And I should heal them."

You cannot see God nor His only-begotten Son because it has not been revealed to you, which is God's choice to dispense His grace to those whom He chooses:

Matthew 11:25-27 (ASV) "At that season Jesus answered and said, I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that thou didst hide these things from the wise and understanding, and didst reveal them unto babes: yea, Father, for so it was well-pleasing in thy sight. All things have been delivered unto me of my Father: and no one knoweth the Son, save the Father; neither doth any know the Father, save the Son, and he to whomsoever the Son willeth to reveal [him.]"

As even a babe can see, it is GOD'S (Christ's) will that determines who will see, know and come to Him.

May it be God's "free-will" to show you mercy, to open your blind eyes, to soften your hard heart and to give you the ability to know your most desperate and helpless condition so that you may receive salvation. Troy, whoever you are, you are most pitiable, as was the case with us all before the Spirit gave us life and revealed our need of Him.

In His grace,