glorydaz
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You make the Almighty into a wimp that can't save unless man wants to be saved. You deny the blood of the covenants sufficiency to save and you suggest that the blood of the covenant is without power to cleanse if a man refuses to be cleansed. Your viewpoint is one of blindness as to the atonement and application of redemption.
He who used His power to cast a third of the angels down to hell also appointed them to destruction. He also caused two thirds to stand in their appointed place. The same Eternal Almighty does not want any of those who are appointed to eternal life to be lost. The reason for that is the covenant He made with His Son that all those who are Named in the Lambs book of Life shall be gathered in. Because of the law of contrast in scripture there must needs be a book of death. Your idea of salvation is one of pick and chose by man and that would be subject to Satan himself, because he is the prince of the power of the air that works in the children of disobedience. Would he let his captives go free to worship the Almighty? No, absolutely not.
Oh, so you are a Calvinist after all.
God is no wimp, but in His infinite wisdom, He created man with the ability to choose Him. And He draws all men to Him through Christ's death on the cross, and through the preaching of the Gospel. He is LOVE and Love gives man every chance to turn to Him for His mercy and grace.
Those "appointed to eternal life" are those IN the ELECT ONE. We are created IN HIM when we believe the Gospel of Salvation.