I tell people that I did NOT marry Heather, my wife. Rather, we agreed to have another marry us together. That person had the power and the will to forge our oneness and pronounce us "man and wife."
I'm asking you to hold together this paradox. There is no contradiction. Both are true:
Universalists say that they made themselves willing, and others are not yet willing. Those that are unwilling to call Jesus the Lord, will one day change their minds ... and then they can enter salvation, too. This self-alteration is as a goat becomming a sheep, or a weed becoming a wheat. However, nature tells us that sheep stay sheep, and goats stay goats, and no weed has ever become anything other then a weed.
We can't change what we are by making ourselves willing if we are not willing.
Even if that were possible, what made us willing to make ourselves willing to make ourselves willing to make our selves willing when we weren't willing?
Either we are fashioned by the Father to be willing, or we are fashioned by the Father to be unwilling. If it is up to us at any level, then it is by our WORK of making ourselves willing that we are saved. This takes us to another paradox.
So, how is it that this is birth if it is our willingness?
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Trina, come now and confess all that you have done, and ask My forgiveness. Cast all that has become burdensome upon Me. I shall carry it for you. Oh beloved, open your heart to Me, and let Me fill it to overflowing with the Water of Life. Trina, My most precious one, you have done wrong, yes, as have all. Not one upon the earth has done right. Know this beyond question...you are forgiven, for your name was written in My book before the very foundation of the earth. ~ Jesus [Letters from God and His Christ - Volume 1 - The Seas Rage; The Earth, It Trembles...All is Quiet For Those Who Rest In the Lord]
