<blockquote><font size=1>In reply to:</font><hr>[color:"blue"][color:red]The question is not whether they could repent or not</font color=red>. The question is "could the Savior pardon them?" He said He could. I have to believe that is true.</font><hr></blockquote><p> So, you are now advocating a gospel without repentance--interesting, but false again. There is election, calling, and regeneration, but after this there is faith and repentance, and only after this is there full pardon from Christ. Thus, what you are advocating is that Christ was offering a false gospel--pardon without repentance. Clearly, this is not the meaning of the text.<br><br>Jesus WILL pardon ALL who are enabled to repent. As the other Scripture in 2 Tim 2:24-26 revealed (in my previous post), repentance is a gift of God. Christ, being God, knew they did not have the ability in and of themselves to repent. His challenge to them was to see their own depravity and thus come to the end of themselves, but He also knew this was only possible by direct revelation of the Holy Spirit (calling, regeneration). To think otherwise to is say Christ did know His own Scriptures.<br>

Reformed and Always Reforming,