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Janean asks further:
I guess the other big question or wonder is then with the Calvinist mentality is then God created people to be damned then. That one just doesn't quite make sense to me either.
Perhaps you could give me your interpretation of the following two passages of Scripture:

Romans 9:18-23 (KJV) "Therefore hath he mercy on whom he will [have mercy], and whom he will he hardeneth. Thou wilt say then unto me, Why doth he yet find fault? For who hath resisted his will? Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? [color:"red"]Shall the thing formed say to him that formed [it], Why hast thou made me thus? Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour?[/color] [What] if God, willing to shew [his] wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction: And that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he had afore prepared unto glory,"

1 Peter 2:7-8 (KJV) "Unto you therefore which believe [he is] precious: but unto them which be disobedient, the stone which the builders disallowed, the same is made the head of the corner, And a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offence, [even to them] which stumble at the word, being disobedient: [color:"red"]whereunto also they were appointed.[/color]"


In His Grace,

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