Peter McKenzie

This is starting to get discombobulated – as the comments were coming fast and furious and I missed seeing some of these. I fear that I may have misrepresented you – and I see where you misrepresented me. Let’s proceed in short bytes to get back on track: Here is where you lost me: On the one hand you said : “So, the foundation is in the OT, the giving to Jesus is NEVER of unbelievers but of those who fear God, and it continues after the death of Jesus.’ Then you said You are misrepresenting me. If you read my words about Paul and the Centurion, you will see that these sinners did not belong to the Father. They received mercy because they sinned in unbelief. I am failing to see how this is not a contradiction. How is that (in view of verse 37) Paul is one that the Father “gave” Jesus? Either he was a believer and was given – or he was not…