Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!christian From: bralick@psuvax1.cs.psu.edu (Will Bralick) Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian Subject: Re: Predestination, Bible Answers to Message-ID: Date: 17 Dec 89 07:21:05 GMT Sender: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu Lines: 33 Approved: christian@aramis.rutgers.edu In article davidbu@tekigm2.men.tek.com (David Buxton) writes: | | Everybody has been predestined for salvation. It is too bad that everyone | does not accept God's plan for them: So how do you account for: "For many are invited, but few are chosen." (Matt. 22:14) ~~~~ It doesn't say _all_; the implication in Christ's parable of the wedding banquet is that there are some that are not even invited. (Those that _are_ invited should be sure to be ready.) It is true that when the wedding invitations were rejected, the king commanded his servants: "Go to the street corners and invite to the banquet anyone you can find." (Matt. 22:9) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ But this leaves open the possibility that there are those who were a) not originally invited, and b) not found and subsequently invited. Clearly, if the original invitees and the "anyone you can find" formed a partition of the race, then _all_ would have been invited. Regards, -- Will Bralick | ... when princes think more of bralick@psuvax1.cs.psu.edu | luxury than of arms, they lose bralick@gondor.cs.psu.edu | their state. with disclaimer; use disclaimer; | - Niccolo Machiavelli