<blockquote><font size=1>In reply to:</font><hr>[color:"blue"]Let me explain: There was a little island of the coast of Alaska. There was a community of Eskimos that lived there and they lived off of fishing, for the most part. They decided that they needed a doctor on the island, so they chose a young man that was intelligent and seemed to have promise. They made an agreement with him - they would pay for all his education if he would go to college and med school and return and provide medical care for all the villagers for at least 10 years after his graduation. The young man became a doctor and returned to fulfill his obligation. One day one of the villagers became quite ill. The man's neighbor went to the doctor to get him to go see the sick man. The doctor went to the man's house and knocked on the door. The sick man would not let him in the house. The neighbor pleaded with the man to let the doctor come in and help. The sick man refused. The man died of pneumonia. The doctor could have, and would have given the man antibiotics to defeat the infection.<br><br>The young man was the doctor of ALL the villagers. The young doctor was WILLING TO TREAT THEM ALL, and WANTED TO DO SO. But the sick man wanted nothing to do with him.</font><hr></blockquote><p> Nice little story of an UN-POWERFUL doctor who could not even enter a door without the help of another. Not a very Sovereign God that is represented here. [img]http://www.the-highway.com/w3timages/icons/drop.gif" alt="drop" title="drop[/img] Of course, I could say that the man was so sin-sick that he could not open the door for the doctor to come in as well (i.e. total depravity), and thus died in his just sickness and thus the doctor never went to school to heal this man for it was never predestined for this door to be opened! [img]http://www.the-highway.com/w3timages/icons/grin.gif" alt="grin" title="grin[/img]<br><br>Please answer this Mr Criter: Whose penalty did Christ bear? Whose salvation did He acquire? <br><br><ul>[color:red]1. All the sins of all men. <br>2. All the sins of some men, or <br>3. Some of the sins of all men.</font color=red>[/LIST] Pick a # and defend it with Scripture!

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