JB Horn

Did Christ show favoritism amongst His own disciples? IHS JB

You betch, I'll do you one better and delete my account ASP. Blessings JB http://inhisword.net

JB - No one is challenging God's sovereignty. I do not understand how you are reading this into Dave's words? He is asking, "Why?" inquisitively as a means of understanding the Lord and His ways better. Is it outside of your theology to better understand the Lord and His ways? Psalms 95:10 - For forty years I was grieved with that generation, And said, 'It is a people who go astray in their hearts, And they do not know My ways.' Your argument is with the Bible not with me and I do not appreciate your sarcasm. I give you Romans and Job to help, you can take it or leave it. Peace JB

Rom 9:20 On the contrary, who are you, O man, who answers back to God ? The thing molded will not say to the molder, "Why did you make me like this," will it? 21 Or does not the potter have a right over the clay, to make from the same lump one vessel for honorable use and another for common use ? 22 What if God, although willing to demonstrate His wrath and to make His power known, endured with much patience vessels of wrath prepared for destruction ? 23 And He did so to make known the riches of His glory upon vessels of mercy, which He prepared beforehand for glory, 24 even us, whom He also called, not from among Jews only, but also from among Gentiles. 25 As He says also in Hosea, "I WILL CALL THOSE WHO WERE NOT MY PEOPLE, 'MY PEOPLE,' AND HER WHO WAS NOT BELOVED, 'BELOVED.' " 26 "AND IT SHALL BE THAT IN THE PLACE WHERE IT WAS SAID TO THEM, 'YOU ARE NOT MY PEOPLE,' THERE THEY SHALL BE CALLED SONS OF THE LIVING GOD." JB

Ephesians 2:8 For by grace you have been saved through faith ; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God ; Romans 12:6 Since we have gifts that differ according to the grace given to us, each of us is to exercise them accordingly: if prophecy, according to the proportion of his faith ; If faith is a gift from God I doubt it is flawed. There might be a bump in your faith but you will not lose it. John 10:29 My Father, which gave them me, is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father's hand. JB

I don't know if I understandyour question but may be James 4:17 speaks to it. Jb

James 4:17 Therefore, to one who knows the right thing to do and does not do it, to him it is sin

Leviticus 19:31 'Do not turn to mediums or seek out spiritists, for you will be defiled by them. I am the LORD your God.' (NIV) Leviticus 20:27 "Men and women among you who act as mediums or psychics must be put to death by stoning. They are guilty of a capital offense." (NLT) Deuteronomy 18:10-13 Let no one be found among you who sacrifices his son or daughter in the fire, who practices divination or sorcery, interprets omens, engages in witchcraft, or casts spells, or who is a medium or spiritist or who consults the dead. Anyone who does these things is detestable to the LORD, and because of these detestable practices the LORD your God will drive out those nations before you. You must be blameless before the LORD your God. (NIV) 1 Chronicles 10:13-14 Saul died because he was unfaithful to the LORD; he did not keep the word of the LORD and even consulted a medium for guidance, and did not inquire of the LORD. So the LORD put him to death and turned the kingdom over to David son of Jesse. (NIV) 2 Chronicles 33:6 He [King Manasseh] sacrificed his sons in the fire in the Valley of Ben Hinnom, practiced sorcery, divination and witchcraft, and consulted mediums and spiritists. He did much evil in the eyes of the LORD, provoking him to anger. (NIV)

Christ also gave us John 6:65. It kind of fits together. I'm typing on my phone or I would post the vs for you JB

Paul's answer: Ro 3:20 Therefore no one will be declared righteous in his sight by observing the law; rather, through the law we become conscious of sin. Ro 5:13 for before the law was given, sin was in the world. But sin is not taken into account when there is no law. JB http://inhisword.net

The FREE unmerited favor of God. God can do anything at His will Fez, your question ask what is the nature of God. Once His grace has brought you to belief on His promise is it His nature to with draw that promise? Is it God's nature to lie? JB

The FREE unmerited favor of God.

I form light and create darkness, I make success and create disaster; I, the Lord, do all these things. HCSB The One forming light and creating darkness, Causing well-being and creating calamity; I am the LORD who does all NAS

Could the hired hands be political leaders? I would consider Church leaders to be other sheep, part of the body, not hired hands. IMHO JB