ECT Why would God say this to unrighteous man if, . .

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. . . it were not possible for them to be willing? The below verse speaks of sin as being like leprosy and He gives the invitation for what is needed for the cure:

"Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they [soon] shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool."
Isaiah 1:18 (KJV)

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[Totton Linnet]

You give the answer yourself...the leper cannot cleanse himself

It is God who comes and reasons together with us, yes He actually has power to draw us to Him and to hold us there while He reasons with us....


....He doesn't need our permission

 

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<good grief! I wish had known!>