Cheryl Schatz

Mark,
You said:

God’s uses the faithful proclamation of His salvation to draw his people to himself. There is a great difference between us. See I believe in the power of grace and the power of God. I believe that God can change any person.

Do you really? Do you believe that God can change any person if that person is a reprobate that was chosen from eternity past to be lost?

I do not just sit back and pray to God as an abstract figure, who will or cannot change the hard hearts of people.

It would be wrong to think that non-Calvinists believe that we are praying to God as an “abstract figure” or that God cannot change a person by creating events that will bring them face to face with their sin and God’s judgment. Paul had a change from an outside event on the road to Emmaeus. God did not push a button to create a new heart in Paul without Paul’s will desiring that. He created an event that caught Paul’s attention and made Paul fall down before God in submission.

Yes I believe that God has predestined some to salvation and not others- the bible teaches that.

Name me one person that the Bible says was predestined to salvation.