>God doesn't require a middleman.
1Ti 2:5 For there is one God and one Mediator between God and men, the Man Christ Jesus
take it up w/…
>But now He has obtained a more excellent ministry, inasmuch as He is also Mediator of a better covenant, which was established on better promises… And for this reason He is the Mediator of the new covenant, by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions under the first covenant, that those who are called may receive the promise of the eternal inheritance……..to Jesus the Mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling that speaks better things than that of Abel.
so, you showed up in this realm w/out your permission
you'll be leaving w/out your permission
what exactly do you "know"?
He chooses
>(for the children not yet being born, nor having done any good or evil,
that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works but of Him who calls),
"I will have mercy on whomever I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whomever I will have compassion."
So then it is not of him who wills, nor of him who runs, but of God who shows mercy.
> so that they should seek the Lord, in the hope that they might grope for Him and find Him, though He is not far from each one of us;
faith it is then, fren
But without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him.