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Luke 13:34: Jesus' will to gather Jerusalem's children together was thwarted by what?

 

2 Peter 3:9: The Lord's will (βουλομαι) that all repent is thwarted by what?

 

If I could answer "how" I would be God. I only have a very limited glimpse of what I think and that may change later. He accomplishes His will any way he wants.

 

The how requires a different answer than what he does or did. I am unable to explain how he speaks to people but I know he does.

 

Jesus willed to gather the sinful children of Jerusalem, but he didn't. What does the verse indicate as to why?

 

God's 'plan' for individuals has much room for decisions to be made for or against the will of God, even though God is not willing that any should rebel against His will. When men rebel against the will of God, there are consequences which then become the will of God in response to that rebellion against His will. God's plan for a man might include His responses to that man's sin, but it can never be said that God made that man sin against the will of God as some sort of foreordained plan of God. God's plans include His responses to man's sin of his own doing, but never includes making men sin.

The bottom line is so simple men often miss it. God allows men to sin but never causes them to sin. It is never God's will for men to disobey God, but it is a possibility in God's will to provide for mercy in response to that disobedience, although God also has other options in response to sin which are His perogatives as well.

 

Ways in which God reveals himself is different than the "how."

It is revealed, but the "how" is quite another question. Most people know how to drive a car but have few answers as to how it works. People could say it is made be people and do not have a clue about "how."

If I knew "how" God worked then I would have to be God. I know He works and have seen ways in which He works. How did God speak creation into existence? I just trust that He did. I do not know how he works in my life I just know that He does. I see methods I comprehend and those I do not. But the "how" begs for an understandable explanation. We know that God loves and that is beyond out comprehension. The "how" does not matter but the fact that he does it what really matters.

Because a car exists does not mean everyone knows how it came into being. Most would say it was made by man. That does not reveal the "how" it came into being. That just states a fact.

God is love. How?

God is infinite. How?

God is everywhere. How?

Explain the totality of infinite in finite terms.

We only have a glimpse of things.

My point is that I must accept the fact but the how is not all that important.

 

I don't know where you got the idea that I think that God regenerates the non-elect! I have never advocated that. We don't believe to be saved eternally, the fact that we are saved eternally is what makes us believe. Even our belief is of God! God looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, that did seek God. Every one of them is gone back; they are altogether become filthy, there is none that doeth good, no, not one. Ps 5t3:2-3. The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will seek after God, God is not in all his thoughts. Ps 10:4. The natural man cannot descern spiritual things, they are foolishness unto him, neither can he know them because they are spiritually descerned. 1 Cor 2:14.

 

You are making our "believing" the cause of our eternal salvation saying that Christ died for those that would believe. How do you explain Ps 14:2-3, The LORD looked down from heaven upon the children of men to see if there were any that did understand, and seek God. They were all gone aside, they are all together become filthy, there is none that doeth good, no, not one? That was the condition of man that God had to choose from. Without his electing them they would have never wanted to serve God. 1 Cor 2:14.

 

God does not have a "plan of eternal salvation other than the one that Christ accomplished upon the cross, John 6:37-41.

 

The natural man will never believe in anything that is of a spiritual nature, 1 Cor 2:14.

 

God has his will of desire, that He wants us all to repent and be saved, but also has has His certain Will, things that will for sure come to pass!

 

All mankind are born into this world as natural beings, without any righteousness until God quickens them together with Christ. God quickens them while they are still dead (spiritually dead) Eph 2:5. The natural man will never seek to serve a spiritual God, 1 Cor 2:14, until God quickens him. God only quickens his elect.

 

By God's foreknowledge he knew that there would be none that would seek him,Ps 53:2 & 1 Cor 2:14. Thats why he choose an elect people before the foundation of the world that he would have a people that, after they were reconciled back to him by Christ, would worship and honour him. The elect are the ones that he quickens, from the fallen state of Adam, to a life in Christ by placing his Spirit within them.