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djmeistro✝️ 🍊💊⚡️ | 4 days ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 Willed

"5 Before I formed thee in the bowels of thy mother, I knew thee: and before thou camest forth out of the womb, I sanctified thee, and made thee a prophet unto the nations."

Jeremiah 1: 5
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AaNon 🤔 | 4 days ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 "formed thee in the bowels of thy mother"⁉️

What are you, a piece of 💩⁉️
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Marakesh 𓅦 | 4 days ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 That's the Douay-Rheims Catholic Version of the Bible. The Protestant versions read "formed you in the womb" or "belly"
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Marakesh 𓅦 | 4 days ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 This was true for JEREMIAH; not everyone has been ordained to be a prophet to the nations. I do believe that in situations and with people that are key to God's plans, He will intervene in ways that make sure His specific purposes/will are accomplished. The conversion of the Apostle Paul looks like a case of this. But though God made sure Paul got saved, where it almost looks like his free will was overridden, Paul himself later writes that it was possible he, too, could lose his salvation:

"But I chastise my body, and bring it into subjection: lest perhaps, when I have preached to others, I myself should become a castaway."
–1 Corinthians 9:27
 https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Corinthians%209:27&version=DRA