6/29/2004 07:04:46 AM|||Laura|||

Saturation point: that concentration of solute in a solvent at which no more solute can go into solution; saturation point increases with increasing temperature.

After much reading and prayer, I think I understand Romans 8:29-30 as well as I am able to at this point. One the one hand, I love it - it puts it all on God, which certainly takes the pressure off of me! But that petty, human part of me whines, but what about the people who aren't called? I think this teaching is particularly hard for Americans, because even though we have a ruling elite in this country, it often goes unacknowledged. The prevailing attitude is that anybody can succeed in this country, whatever your background is. So how does that American "we all have the same opportunity to succeed" credo fit in with predestination? It doesn't. Heaven is not a democracy - or for that matter, a democratic republic, which is what the United States actually is. It is such a paradigm shift to really consider what the Bible says about predestination. I've reached the limit of how much of this theology I can absorb - if I'm going to understand it better, God is going to have to heat me up and raise my saturation point.

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