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Note on Sin and freewill. Death, judgment & eternal condemnation

To be clear, God's Word reveals that sinners are condemned for their sin. They willingly choose to suppress the knowledge of God and truly desire to sin the sins that they sin, and are indeed condemned *for* the sum of their works. We are compatabilists, not fatalists—God’s knowing / ordaining / granting of the sinner’s sin is not coercive—the will of the creature is at liberty to make the choices it makes, as long as God allows it. We can see with Pharoah and Nebuchadnezzar as well as with the Apostles when they were prevented from or delayed from their desire. Man plans but God's plans prevail. Conversely, the elect are saved *not* for the sum of their works, but from sheer grace of God, through faith, by His will and foredecision. And by the drawing of man by the Holy Spirit, reasoning with him & showing him truths, man then is led to the cross, and God converts. Making it both God's will and man's will to obey the Gospel, which has the power to convert men, and...

Does God do things against mans desires?

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When some false preacher teaches people doctrines of demons by saying: Help those decieved by such lies, explain the truth of Scripture so they can flee error and go run to the truth.  Matthew 23:15. Calls out the false teachers and their followers, warning: "Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! You travel sea and land to make one proselyte, and when he becomes one, you make him twice as much a son of hell as yourselves." Helps explaining this topic to those under the influence of decieving teachers:  Romans 3:11 there is no one who understands; there is no one who seeks God. >>So unless God intervenes, no one would believe. "And those whom he predestined he also called, and those whom he called he also justified,..." Romans 8:30. See Mark 9:24, Hebrews 12:2, Eph. 2:8 Ephesians 2:4-5, "But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with...