That has also been touched upon though not gone over in depth:
What Calvinism and Reform prefer to call "reprobate" is the same word αδοκιμος which may also be rendered as "castaway", (for the kingdom of Elohim is like unto a net). Paul likewise uses this in a very critical context, that is, immediately after expounding one of his revelations where he was caught up into Paradise:
2 Corinthians 12:1-5
1 I must needs glory, though it is not expedient, but I come to visions and revelations of the Master.
2 I know an anthropon [manfaced-countenance] prior to fourteen years in Messiah: whether in the body, I know not, or whether out of the body, I know not, (Elohim knows), such a certain one was caught up unto the third heaven:
3 ALSO I know such a certain one, an anthropon-manfaced: whether in the body, or apart from the body, I know not, (Elohim knows),
4 how that he was caught up into the Paradise and heard unspeakable words which it is not lawful for a man to utter.
5 On behalf of such a certain one will I glory: but on mine own behalf I will not glory, except in my weaknesses.
Which "such a certain one" is Paul and which "such a certain one" is the anthropon-manfaced speaking words which it is unlawful for a man to utter? The first anthropon-manfaced is Saulos, the old man, the natural man, that is, Esau man, (as has been shown so many times over). The new man is Paulos, "the little", (he is little), the new man in Messiah. Therefore have I said all those things in this thread which likewise pertain to this revelation: for as I said, the old man is destroyed when the new man is born, for the Most High says, "I KILL AND I MAKE ALIVE, and He does this at the same time. Saulos is therefore the αδοκιμος, the reprobate, the castaway, the old man sin nature, and Paul speaks of this later in the same context because it is still the same passage though it is now separated by having been divided into verse numbering and chapters:
2 Corinthians 13:2-5
2 I told you before, and foretell you, as if I were present, the second time; and being absent now I write to them which heretofore have sinned, and to all other, that, if I come again, I will not spare:
3 since you seek a proof of Messiah speaking in me, which to you-ward is not weak, but is mighty in you.
4 For though he was crucified through weakness, yet he lives by the power of Elohim: for we also are weak in him, but we shall live with him by the power of Elohim toward you.
5 Examine yourselves, whether you be in the faith; prove your own selves: know you not your own selves how that Messiah Yeshua is in you, unless you are αδοκιμοι-reprobate-castaways?
6 But I trust that you shall know that we are not αδοκιμοι-reprobate-castaways.
1 Corinthians 9:27 KJV
27 But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway [G0096 αδοκιμος].
G96 ἀδόκιμος adokimos (a-d̮o'-kiy-mos) adj.
1. unacceptable, i.e. rejected.
2. (by implication) worthless.
{literally or morally}
[from G1 (as a negative particle) and G1384]
KJV: castaway, rejected, reprobate
Root(s): G1, G1384
Saulos is the old man αδοκιμος-reprobate-castaway because Paulos the little, the new man in Messiah, has just expounded it by revelation in the previous chapter quoted herein above, (which is yet the continuance of very same passage). It is exactly as has been said repeatedly throughout this thread. And those who neither know nor believe what we speak likewise know not the fear and terror of the Master in that great Bema Day, (and because of it we persuade men), so they ridicule what they cannot understand because they speak and see all things according to the natural and carnal minded old man Esau nature who cannot please Elohim. That too is just as both Yohanan and Paulos have said; they walk being already under the judgment of Elohim because they walk according to the belly of the flesh, just as the serpent was cursed to do from the beginning, in Paradise.
