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"Bart Goddard" wrote in message
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>
>
> gkmcnees@comcast.net wrote:
>
> >> > After all, what Christ said in Luke 10 is very easy to understand.
> >> > It is quite hard for many to accept, because it enunciates facts
> >> > which many refuse to believe.
> >> >
> >> > 1) God knows what one would do under different conditions.
> >>
> >> Which doesn't imply any freedom. Just the opposite, in fact:
> >> People's wills are bound by these "conditions" they find
> >> themselves "under".
> >
> > Another assertion. Prove it. That is, prove that they would
> > not have freely willed it.
>
> Your verse says that the Sidionese are unrepentant.

No it does not.

> And they
> will remain unrepentant until/unless God takes action, in
> which case they will become repentant.

No, it does not.

> So their "choice
> for Jesus" is entirely dependent upon God's action.

Does not follow.

> These
> people aren't free to decide one way or the other.

Does not follow.

> If
> God decides He wants them to believe, then He does
> miracles there.

The verse did not say this.

> If not, He refrains.

Nor this.

> >> > 2) The unregenerate would repent under some conditions.
> >>
> >> And if your God, Who says "What more could I do", doesn't
> >> provide these conditions, is He lying or just a monster?
> >
> > More unfounded "logic?" NO.
> >
> > God can't do the exact same miracles everywhere.
>
> Why not?

Because they would be DIFFERENT miracles by
definition. Different people, different location, etc. etc. etc.

> You said He could do anything "possible". If
> it's "possible" to change water into wine in Canaan, then
> why isn't it "possible" to do it in Sidon?

Maybe He did. Are all the exact same people in Sidon
that are in Bethesda upon which He may have done miracles?

> > There are obviously some that just
> > will not repent.
>
> So they don't have free will. Their wills are bound
> by Satan and they can't repent.

No, does not follow. They freely choose to not repent,
just like you.

> > Glad to see you don't answer the argument at all, no attempt.
> > I wonder why?
>
> You wonder why you don't see the answer, I guess is what you mean.

This post is the first in which you've attempted to really answer,
and the "answer" is pitiful indeed. Please explain like the Calvinists
like to do, why God doesn't mean that He really desires all men
to be saved. Please explain why God doesn't really mean that He
wants ALL to repent! These are the questions you need to a