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Your questions
1. So the citizens of Nivevah were the elect, if that is true, then why send Jonah there? = Because they were elect!2. If the elect have no choice but to be the elect, then why send the comforter to these people since regardless of who they are, they are forever elect? = Because they are elect!
3. If, prior to the great flood, if all the non-elect were destroyed for their evil, then what happened to Ham and his decendents? = [URL=http://www.custance.org/Library/Volume1/Part_I/Chapter3.html]]]Shem Ham Japheth[/URL]
4. If you are the elect, how would you know? Did God send you a message? = Faith!
5. If God elected some people then why did he waste so much time with Israel? = Because some were elect!
6. If God is not willing that any should perish then why did he elect some to heaven and the rest to hell? = Because HE IS Love! All are guilty as charged!
7. If Calvinism is great and Biblical, then why do your congregations keep so many of the traditions of the catholic church and rarely, if ever evangelize? = (1)The Reformation removed the UNBiblical practices, the result was the Protestant Church. But not all Israel is Israel! (2) We do evangelize!