incompatible with regeneration. He cuts them off before they get there and thus secures their eternal salvation.” In other words, one way that God “sustains” some of his people is by removing them from this life before they have opportunity to persist in their sin to such an extent that they apostatize. I shot back at John: “But why would God do it this way?” After all, God can turn or incline our hearts toward good (see Prov. 21:1; 2 Thess. 3:5). So why doesn’t he simply protect his people from
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