<blockquote><font size=1>In reply to:</font><hr>[color:"blue"]It just happens, much to your surprise apparently, that the selection I quoted made exactly the point I wanted to convey. Pardon would be available to the Pharisees, if they would but confess their blindness. This answers to Owens’s argument that the first case can not be true. Christ did die for all the sins of all men; else how could the savior say “ye should have no sin”? But their sin remains unpardoned because they say they see.</font><hr></blockquote><p> The idea expressed was to show them that they could not even repent because of their blindness unless God initiated things first! Who is the one that initially heals blindness FIRST before one may see--John 3:1-9.<br><br><blockquote> 2 Timothy 2:24-26 And the servant of the Lord must not strive; but be gentle unto all men, apt to teach, patient, In meekness instructing those that oppose themselves; if God peradventure will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth; And that they may recover themselves out of the snare of the devil, who are taken captive by him at his will.</blockquote><br><br>PS you still have not answered my other question????<br><br>

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