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Pilgrim said:
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DanielRitchie said:
Why are people reprobated? Anyone care to answer?
1) Because it was God's eternal will to not save them unto His own glory.
2) Because they are sinners and deserving of eternal judgment.

Assuming that one holds to biblical Calvinism, that answer can take on more "meat" depending upon whether one ascribes to Infralapsarianism or Supralapsarianism. <img src="/forum/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

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Thanks for the welcome; my reading of Romans 9 would suggest option 1 is correct. <img src="/forum/images/graemlins/BigThumbUp.gif" alt="" />

Daniel Ritchie
Dromara Reformed Presbyterian Church of Ireland
Saintfield, Northern Ireland