If you had noticed why did you complain to me about a lack of explanation. I questioned you on the passage to see if you noticed anything "odd" and you came with with a complaint of lack of explanation.
3. I need nothing explained re Heb. 3:12-19.
4. Re Deut. 29: 4: We notice that Moses blames Israel's lack of faithfulness/obedience on God.
5. Israel saw great miracles, "but" God blinded their understanding or "heart".
6. A great companion passage is Rom 1:18-23.
7. In the same way Light came into this DARK world but the Darkness did not comprehend it (Jn 1:5).
8. See also Matt. 13:11-15 wherein the unregenerate see and hear naturally but cannot see and hear spiritually because they themselves are Darkness.
9. Cf. Eph. 5:8, and their minds have been blinded by the evil one.
10. Cf. 2Cor. 4:4, and even the Lord blinds the eyes of non-elect.
11. Cf. Jn 12:39-40.
12. We learn that ultimately spiritual understanding comes from God himself and is graciously imparted to his chosen people inwardly by the Holy Spirit (Ps 119:18; Prov 9:10; Job 28:8; Isa 42:6-7; Lk 18:34; 24:45; Act 8:30-31; 1Cor 2:10; 2Cor 4:6; 1Jn 5:20) and withheld from the rest (cf. Lk 14:16-24).
13. The faculty of intellect or mind is also seated in the heart (Deut. 29:4).
14. Moses did not shy away from the tension between the twin truths of God's supreme sovereignty and man's moral/spiritual responsibility. He did not consider these truths to be mutually exclusive to each other but actually complementary to each other -- even though we cannot fully understand how God rules this world by working his perfect will into his moral creatures to accomplish his purposes.
15. Sixthly, this passage in Deut cleary demolishes various man-made universal concepts or constructs that God's love is unconditional and that God is not willing that any human being should perish. If Moses believed any of this, he could never have written what he did in vv. 4 and 9.
16. Lastly, the grace that God withheld from the Hebrews and that ultimately accounted for their rebellious, hostile spirit toward their Redeemer would have been effectual if He had granted that grace to them, because nothing changed with the Hebrews after they crossed the Jordan into the Land of Canaan, for Joshua told the people, while they were still on the wilderness side of the river, that they would not be able to serve the Lord (Josh 24:19). Clearly Moses in Deut. 29:4 implied that the Hebrews would have had spiritual eyes to see and ears to hear and an understanding heart if God had graciously granted those things to them.
17. In closing, this is a rather unique passage in scripture because it brings two different and seemingly contradictory concepts together, as mentioned earlier. And at the same time, the Word of God does not shy away from or downplay man's role of moral/spiritual duty to God in spite of his fatal spiritual condition.
My "lengthy commentary" was only 7 points. I doubt very, very seriously you extracted 10 more points from my exegesis. The only way you could is by your favored method of eisegesis. So, I'll take a pass. However, if you want to zoom in on any ONE of my points one at a time and address that one point in one post, I'll read what you have to say.
3. I need nothing explained re Heb. 3:12-19.
4. Re Deut. 29: 4: We notice that Moses blames Israel's lack of faithfulness/obedience on God.
5. Israel saw great miracles, "but" God blinded their understanding or "heart".
6. A great companion passage is Rom 1:18-23.
7. In the same way Light came into this DARK world but the Darkness did not comprehend it (Jn 1:5).
8. See also Matt. 13:11-15 wherein the unregenerate see and hear naturally but cannot see and hear spiritually because they themselves are Darkness.
9. Cf. Eph. 5:8, and their minds have been blinded by the evil one.
10. Cf. 2Cor. 4:4, and even the Lord blinds the eyes of non-elect.
11. Cf. Jn 12:39-40.
12. We learn that ultimately spiritual understanding comes from God himself and is graciously imparted to his chosen people inwardly by the Holy Spirit (Ps 119:18; Prov 9:10; Job 28:8; Isa 42:6-7; Lk 18:34; 24:45; Act 8:30-31; 1Cor 2:10; 2Cor 4:6; 1Jn 5:20) and withheld from the rest (cf. Lk 14:16-24).
13. The faculty of intellect or mind is also seated in the heart (Deut. 29:4).
14. Moses did not shy away from the tension between the twin truths of God's supreme sovereignty and man's moral/spiritual responsibility. He did not consider these truths to be mutually exclusive to each other but actually complementary to each other -- even though we cannot fully understand how God rules this world by working his perfect will into his moral creatures to accomplish his purposes.
15. Sixthly, this passage in Deut cleary demolishes various man-made universal concepts or constructs that God's love is unconditional and that God is not willing that any human being should perish. If Moses believed any of this, he could never have written what he did in vv. 4 and 9.
16. Lastly, the grace that God withheld from the Hebrews and that ultimately accounted for their rebellious, hostile spirit toward their Redeemer would have been effectual if He had granted that grace to them, because nothing changed with the Hebrews after they crossed the Jordan into the Land of Canaan, for Joshua told the people, while they were still on the wilderness side of the river, that they would not be able to serve the Lord (Josh 24:19). Clearly Moses in Deut. 29:4 implied that the Hebrews would have had spiritual eyes to see and ears to hear and an understanding heart if God had graciously granted those things to them.
17. In closing, this is a rather unique passage in scripture because it brings two different and seemingly contradictory concepts together, as mentioned earlier. And at the same time, the Word of God does not shy away from or downplay man's role of moral/spiritual duty to God in spite of his fatal spiritual condition.
My "lengthy commentary" was only 7 points. I doubt very, very seriously you extracted 10 more points from my exegesis. The only way you could is by your favored method of eisegesis. So, I'll take a pass. However, if you want to zoom in on any ONE of my points one at a time and address that one point in one post, I'll read what you have to say.