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All tagged Election
To every man, therefore, his faith is a sufficient attestation of the eternal predestination of God, so that it would be a shocking sacrilege to carry the inquiry farther; for that man offers an aggravated insult to the Holy Spirit, who refuses to assent to his simple testimony. (Comm. John 6:40)
Your church has split in half again and again. You're down to the final two members and your spouse isn't showing many "fruit of the Spirit" these days. Should you go for your knife?
But the truth is that God's election worked itself out in ways that the Jewish community recognized and passed down in their oral tradition. God's election works itself out in time and space through real people with real actions and decision.
