Will God ever drop someone and damn them?

[George]

So this is about if God will ever get tired with trying to show someone the Way and accept Him as Savior. I've heard people say that after so many times of God trying to show Himself into your life, you're out of luck and you burned your chance of salvation.

So doesn't this pretty much make God an angry God and it's like playing the lottery with salvation.

 

[Brighten04]

God is a gentleman. He condemns no one. But He has given us the free will to choose Him.God has already chosen mankind John 3:16. If men refuse to believe, then they condemn themselves. God says whosoever will, let him come. The door is always open.

 

[Josiah]

So this is about if God will ever get tired with trying to show someone the Way and accept Him as Savior. I've heard people say that after so many times of God trying to show Himself into your life, you're out of luck and you burned your chance of salvation.

So doesn't this pretty much make God an angry God and it's like playing the lottery with salvation.

I think you are delving a bit into MYSTERY...... On the one hand, I think God is true to His promises. On the other hand, I reject "once saved, always saved" of a very small subgroup of Calvinists for 400 years now..... I do think it's POSSIBLE for someone to wreak their faith - thus rendering justification uneffectual for them. I accept universal grace - and I don't think God "times us out" on that (so I can accept "death bed" "conversions").

IMO, it's best just to affirm Law and Gospel - as is, fully. And not try too much to "connect the dots." I think we often get ourselves into a lot of trouble because we insist on thinking too much (and thinking way too much of our thinking). God hasn't told us everything because we don't NEED to know or comprehend everything (and probably can't even BEGIN to). It's okay to ask questions (I'm not repudiating your question at all)..... but that doesn't mean anyone has an "answer." IMO, there's a LOT in soteriology (and theology) that is MYSTERY and best embraced as such. God's ways are not our ways.... God's thinking is not our thinking.... God is not subject to our puny, limited, sinful brains.


Sorry.


Pax


- Josiah

 

[Lamb]

So this is about if God will ever get tired with trying to show someone the Way and accept Him as Savior. I've heard people say that after so many times of God trying to show Himself into your life, you're out of luck and you burned your chance of salvation.

So doesn't this pretty much make God an angry God and it's like playing the lottery with salvation.

We receive God's forgiveness and salvation when He gives us faith and we believe. For those who reject, how many times does God keep trying again and again to rescue that man? We can't know, only God does.

 

[Romanos]

Interesting idea. Subscribing.

 

[visionary]

I think the question should have been "Will anyone drop God and damn Him?" It is not from God in the lack of effort, but from man's lack of appreciation for the effort. Remember in Revelation it states that they cursed God and continued on their way.

Revelation 16:9 And men were scorched with great heat, and blasphemed the name of God, which hath power over these plagues: and they repented not to give him glory. .......11 And blasphemed the God of heaven because of their pains and their sores, and repented not of their deeds.

God does not give up on us, but we do give up on Him. Can't save someone who doesn't want to be saved.