Hello Carlos,<br><br>Well, according to your logic I guess I am a Campbellite, too. I don't believe water baptism has anything to do with salvation, but Campbellites believe in an eternal damnation. I guess I am Catholic, too, according to your logic. I believe that the Lord Jesus Christ was/is God manifest in the flesh and was born of a virgin. I mean, I don't hold to their other doctines, but..... Mormons believe that they should go into all the world and preach. I do too. Guess I am a Mormon, according to you guidelines.<br><br>Now, do you believe in the lake of fire? Are you a Campbellite, too? Do you believe in the virgin birth and the deity of the Lord Jesus Christ? So you are Catholic, too? Do you believe in preaching? So you are a Mormon, too?<br><br>You cite passages, when the only things that you know about them are what Calvinist teachers have told you. Romans 9.... who is Paul speaking of in the chapter? He is speaking of his KINSMEN ACCORDING to the FLESH.<br><br>Rom 9:1 I say the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost,<br> 2 That I have great heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart.<br> 3 For I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh:<br> 4 Who are Israelites; to whom [pertaineth] the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the service [of God], and the promises;<br><br><br>Now, lets go to the first verse you mention: 6 ΒΆ Not as though the word of God hath taken none effect. For they [are] not all Israel, which are of Israel:<br><br>Still dealing with Israel. Not talking about Gentiles. Not talking about the church. Talking about Israel.<br><br>Now if you can understand that, we can rationally discuss the passage. If you don't, there is not much sense continuing.<br><br>Same thing applies in John 6. Did your father eat manna in the wilderness? Those addressed in John 6... their fathers ate manna in the wilderness. One who fails to rightly divide the word of truth can't begin to understand those passages.<br><br>You have to conveniently neglect the context of the passages in order to support Calvinism. But then that is what every group that holds to their theology (instead of the Holy Bible) does.<br><br>Your question regarding "all" is non-sensical, to me. <br><br>Lu 13:3 I tell you, Nay: but, except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish.
