Receive and Send

[The Rogue Tomato]

9 The coming of the lawless one is according to the working of Satan, with all power, signs, and lying wonders, 10 and with all unrighteous deception among those who perish, because they did not receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved. 11 And for this reason God will send them strong delusion, that they should believe the lie, 12 that they all may be condemned who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness.

They did not receive the love of the truth? From whom would they receive such?

God will send them strong delusion. This is okay, but it's unloving to send others love of the truth?

 

[praise_yeshua]

9 The coming of the lawless one is according to the working of Satan, with all power, signs, and lying wonders, 10 and with all unrighteous deception among those who perish, because they did not receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved. 11 And for this reason God will send them strong delusion, that they should believe the lie, 12 that they all may be condemned who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness.

They did not receive the love of the truth? From whom would they receive such?

God will send them strong delusion. This is okay, but it's unloving to send others love of the truth?

You recognized the cause.... above. because they did not receive the love of the truth,.............You don't really believe that this is the actual cause. You fabricate that illusion that God is the actual cause of said event.

The Scriptures are very clear......

Heb 10:29 Of how much sorer punishment, suppose ye, shall he be thought worthy, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and hath counted the blood of the covenant, wherewith he was sanctified, an unholy thing, and hath done despite unto the Spirit of grace?

Notice FIRST... the offer of Grace to these people....

"hath done despite unto the Spirit of grace?"

As I told you before, there is no wrath without first..... LOVE.

The Calvinist has it backwards. Well.... they give themselves a "pass" in their theology.

 

[civic]

Its the very definition of love which opposes calvinism in that passage.

In Calvinism God coerces/forces Himself on sinful haters of God by regenerating them unknowingly by giving them a new heart, putting His spirit in them to awaken them from the dead/corpse state and then loke a robot on strings they suddenly go from hating God to loving Him. God saves them before they can even believe in Him or understand the gospel which comes after they have been regenerated. That by definition is unloving since the hater of God did not decide to love God but had that done to him against his will. They do not want to be saved since they love sin and hate God as the passage makes clear below. In Calvinism those who hate God and do not want to be saved get selected by God to be saved by regenerating the God hater and giving them a new heart. That is not a loving God by any means.

2 Thess 2:10- They perish because they refused to love the truth and so be saved.

hope this helps !!!