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People often don't know how they came to believe something. Don't you know that the spirit world can (and do) put thoughts in your mind ... God and His angels, and Satan and his demons. Are you related to the one-and-only R/D?

Obviously, God wants it to appear that anyone can be saved. That gives the elect/called/chosen reason to respond positively to the Gospel. If He were to explain that only those He chooses will be saved, the elect/called/chosen would not be so eager to respond. There would be a hesitancy to respond.

The whosoevers are mentioned to provide people with hope of salvation. Being an evangelist, I know that people would not be interested ... if their free-will choice might NOT be honored by God. Let's preach the Gospel and see who jumps all over it. The NT says it is not possible for those not...

Yes, after the Incarnation. Perhaps, we should change all the translations to honor your version: (John 1:14) And Jesus was made flesh (i.e. Jesus), and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth. I like your version ...

Actually, He did send the Word into the world (John 1:14). God sent His only Son ... by/through ... being born of the virgin Mary God sent His only Son ... by/through ... being "fathered" by the Holy Spirit

I wonder if anyone else on this planet believes this refers to salvation?

IMO, your "whosoever" people were given faith ... so they would be able to believe. The OP makes is clear that for 2 major reasons ... man is unable to believe (on his own).

After reading the OP and my posts ... don't you realize that I know this (in spades). I repeat ... it's all about semantics.

OK, forget the sperm possibility. Anything else you'd like to complain about?

This glory was when He was "the Word" (John 1). I should write this in red and in bold. As per the OP ... Before the Incarnation, the Triune Godhead was ... God the Father, God the Word, God the Holy Spirit. Obviously.

IMO, yes ... they are given the faith to believe by God. I was thinking they are chosen first, then called to believe, etc. Butski, the most Rightest of all Dividers convinced me that quite possibly they are called first, and after believing, are then chosen. The church has convinced people to...

I'm just talking about semantics! Gabriel said to CALL the Baby ... "Jesus" and "the Son of God". This is something new ... these names, I mean. Prior to the incarnation, this deity was simply "the Word". And how could He be the Son of God before being "fathered" by the Holy Spirit. Surely, I'm...

Bold and colors noted. Jesus commanded we go out and evangelize because the called and chosen must hear the Gospel and respond to it (and w/o regards to WHY they believe). Lydia was a Jew or Gentile who was not regenerate, butski was a worshiper of God. Is that okay? I mean ... she saw the...

John 1 (NKJV) ... 1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 He was in the beginning with God. 3 All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made. Other NT verses explain that Father God created everything through...

All I ever said about Lydia was that ... "The Lord opened her heart to heed the things spoken by Paul." (Acts 16:14, NKJV) Does the Lord bless everyone in this way? This proves to me that God chooses to really give some people the special opportunity to believe and be saved ... whilst NOT...

I just like to point out the technical error in doing so. Technically, realistically, etc. these names have no part in referring to Jesus PRIOR to the Incarnation.

OK, you are correct ... my mistake. A person can be given the faith to believe, like Lydia was, and then refuse to believe, e.g. because he/she prefers to live in his/her sin.

Yes, of course, I hammer on about nomenclature. And I don't like "how that works" in the churches. There was no one called Jesus or the Son of God or Immanuel, etc. in Heaven before the Incarnation. How about ... only after he ascended? The Lord promises that when we read (and study) the Holy...

The archangel Gabriel said to the virgin Mary: “And behold, you will conceive in your womb and bring forth a Son, and shall call His name Jesus … The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Highest will overshadow you; therefore, also, that Holy One who is to be born will be...

OK, I'll refer to them as Paul does when addressing the churches: "the called and chosen". BTW, surely they are chosen before they are called. So, I don't know why Paul reverses the two.