Such a decision is called election, and the decision to not save is called preterition. Such an action are two sides of the same coin and equally ultimate to that degree. For example, the Lord elects by calling saints by saving them apart from any works they do.
The work of God in condemning the wicked is not the reverse side of His work in saving sinners but demonstrates the Lord alone is the primary agent in salvation. These are people who refuse to have anything to do with the Lord, and they are handed over to their idols. To acknowledge the Lord is to retain Him at the center of our affections, to respond to Him with thankfulness and worship as He has revealed Himself in His Word.
When we acknowledge the Lord with our minds, we can think properly and reason correctly based on Scripture Romans The unregenerate mind can understand there is a holy God from whom they should worship and give thanks. With that said, an unregenerate mind cannot worship and give thanks as the Lord God commands. Even so, Christians can present evidence to an unregenerate mind showing the existence of God and the Christian faith which Paul did Acts Even so, apart from the Holy Spirit, unregenerate minds will take such evidence, pervert it, and use it to justify their current state away from the Lord.
The reprobate mind is given over to sinful passions and desires for such a person is set on satisfying every appetite and desire they have. The person who rejects God serves themselves and as a result, comes under the condemnation of the Lord. As a result, they are under the just condemnation of the Lord, which is why they have no conviction of their sin or desire for the Lord.
With that said, Christians do not have a reprobate mind because they have the Holy Spirit since they are born again John ; 2 Corinthians They shall become a sign and a wonder on you and your descendants forever.
Moreover, it shall eat the offspring of your herd and the produce of your ground until you are destroyed, who also leaves you no grain, new wine, or oil, nor the increase of your herd or the young of your flock until they have caused you to perish. It shall besiege you in all your towns until your high and fortified walls in which you trusted come down throughout your land, and it shall besiege you in all your towns throughout your land which the Lord your God has given you.
Then you shall eat the offspring of your own body, the flesh of your sons and of your daughters whom the Lord your God has given you, during the siege and the distress by which your enemy will oppress you.
The man who is refined and very delicate among you shall be hostile toward his brother and toward the wife he cherishes and toward the rest of his children who remain, so that he will not give even one of them any of the flesh of his children which he will eat, since he has nothing else left, during the siege and the distress by which your enemy will oppress you in all your towns.
The refined and delicate woman among you, who would not venture to set the sole of her foot on the ground for delicateness and refinement, shall be hostile toward the husband she cherishes and toward her son and daughter, and toward her afterbirth which issues from between her legs and toward her children whom she bears; for she will eat them secretly for lack of anything else, during the siege and the distress by which your enemy will oppress you in your towns.
He will bring back on you all the diseases of Egypt of which you were afraid, and they will cling to you. Also every sickness and every plague which, not written in the book of this law, the Lord will bring on you until you are destroyed. Then you shall be left few in number, whereas you were as numerous as the stars of heaven, because you did not obey the Lord your God. It shall come about that as the Lord delighted over you to prosper you, and multiply you, so the Lord will delight over you to make you perish and destroy you; and you will be torn from the land where you are entering to possess it.
Moreover, the Lord will scatter you among all peoples, from one end of the earth to the other end of the earth; and there you shall serve other gods, wood and stone, which you or your fathers have not known. Among those nations you shall find no rest, and there will be no resting place for the sole of your foot; but there the Lord will give you a trembling heart, failing of eyes, and despair of soul.
So your life shall hang in doubt before you; and you will be in dread night and day, and shall have no assurance of your life. When your dread comes like a storm And your calamity comes like a whirlwind, When distress and anguish come upon you. Therefore in that day the Lord God of hosts called you to weeping, to wailing, To shaving the head and to wearing sackcloth. Be delayed and wait, Blind yourselves and be blind; They become drunk, but not with wine, They stagger, but not with strong drink.
For the Lord has poured over you a spirit of deep sleep, He has shut your eyes, the prophets; And He has covered your heads, the seers. I will destine you for the sword, And all of you will bow down to the slaughter. Because I called, but you did not answer; I spoke, but you did not hear.
And you did evil in My sight And chose that in which I did not delight. They call them rejected silver, Because the Lord has rejected them.
They will go with their flocks and herds To seek the Lord , but they will not find Him; He has withdrawn from them. Let them alone; they are blind guides of the blind. And if a blind man guides a blind man, both will fall into a pit. For I tell you, none of those men who were invited shall taste of my dinner. But you do not believe because you are not of My sheep. While I was with them, I was keeping them in Your name which You have given Me; and I guarded them and not one of them perished but the son of perdition, so that the Scripture would be fulfilled.
Or does not the potter have a right over the clay, to make from the same lump one vessel for honorable use and another for common use? What then? What Israel is seeking, it has not obtained, but those who were chosen obtained it, and the rest were hardened;. Test yourselves to see if you are in the faith; examine yourselves!
Or do you not recognize this about yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in you—unless indeed you fail the test? But I trust that you will realize that we ourselves do not fail the test. Now we pray to God that you do no wrong; not that we ourselves may appear approved, but that you may do what is right, even though we may appear unapproved. For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work; only he who now restrains will do so until he is taken out of the way.
Then that lawless one will be revealed whom the Lord will slay with the breath of His mouth and bring to an end by the appearance of His coming; that is, the one whose coming is in accord with the activity of Satan, with all power and signs and false wonders, read more.
For this reason God will send upon them a deluding influence so that they will believe what is false, in order that they all may be judged who did not believe the truth, but took pleasure in wickedness.
Just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so these men also oppose the truth, men of depraved mind, rejected in regard to the faith. English Standard Version And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them up to a debased mind to do what ought not to be done. Berean Study Bible Furthermore, since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, He gave them up to a depraved mind, to do what ought not to be done.
Holman Christian Standard Bible And because they did not think it worthwhile to acknowledge God, God delivered them over to a worthless mind to do what is morally wrong. American Standard Version And even as they refused to have God in their knowledge, God gave them up unto a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not fitting; Aramaic Bible in Plain English And because they decided in themselves not to know God, God handed them over to a worthless mind so that they would be doing whatever is inappropriate, Contemporary English Version Since these people refused even to think about God, he let their useless minds rule over them.
That's why they do all sorts of indecent things. Douay-Rheims Bible And as they liked not to have God in their knowledge, God delivered them up to a reprobate sense, to do those things which are not convenient; English Revised Version And even as they refused to have God in their knowledge, God gave them up unto a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not fitting; Good News Translation Because those people refuse to keep in mind the true knowledge about God, he has given them over to corrupted minds, so that they do the things that they should not do.
So they do these indecent things. International Standard Version Furthermore, because they did not think it worthwhile to keep knowing God fully, God delivered them to degraded minds to perform acts that should not be done. Literal Standard Version And according as they did not approve of having God in knowledge, God gave them up to a disapproved mind, to do the things not seemly; NET Bible And just as they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them over to a depraved mind, to do what should not be done.
New Heart English Bible Even as they refused to have God in their knowledge, God abandoned them to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not right; Weymouth New Testament And just as they had refused to continue to have a full knowledge of God, so it was to utterly worthless minds that God gave them up, for them to do things which should not be done.
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