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gilgames wrote:
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> gpatton@bayou.com
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> I think it was probably around the same time the ass (of Numbers
> chapter 22) lost his speaking ability. What do you think?
> >>
>
> God's good angel was behind Balam's ass, and God's bad angle the Satan
> appared as a serpent in Gen 3.

Now you sound like you are changing your story. At first you
identified the serpent with Satan, now you seem to be saying Satan was
"behind the serpent". If you think about it, there is a
difference. You seem to abandon one weak theory to adopt another weak
theory. Please think it over and be consistent so that we can discuss
this in a sane manner.

Note that in Numbers 22:28 it was not the angel that gave the ass the
ability to speak but God. It was God that gave the ass the ability to
speak (was behind the ass), the angel was in the front of the ass not
"behind the ass". You got it backwards in Numbers and in the Genesis
account no angel was recorded to take part in the temptation, and later
cherubs were used to guard Eden, but they do not come into the story
until the last verse of chapter three. I think that your imagination
is over worked and needs a rest.


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>
> Gary McNees wrote:
> > wrote in message
> > news:110.17.10.05.063571000@srcbs.org...
> > > A man is elected because of God's "good pleasure" (kata
> > > eudokian) not because of a causative faith. The man who is passed
> over
> > > is equally a sovereign act of God, not because of his persistence
> in
> > > sin.
> >
> > No one would believe unless God first drew him,
> >
> That's right.
>
> > hence, salvation under the
> > non-Calvinistic system is still of God's "good pleasure."
> >
> So what's your point of contention? You seem not to know how to
> answer.

I find it hard to believe that you don't know what the point is.
Although all are drawn to Christ, not all come to Christ.
They can refuse to come. This is spelled out in many places
in Scripture.

> > But your second sentence is false under Calvinism. The man who is
> "passed
> > over" under Calvinism is only in his "persistence of sin" BECAUSE God
> > created him that way.
> >
> Again, you do not display an understanding of the nature of evil. It
> also seems that you do not understand the point of the argument. Man
> is passed over not because of his individual sins, nor because he is by<