DB I dare say you will find this problem in Reformed churches as well. I doubt it is strictly a fundamental problem.

"Dispensationalist readily deny the sovereignty of God in the election and salvation of men. Yet He was sovereign in calling out the nation of Israel to be His people and to be their God, but not sovereign to call out and elect a group of people to be His church."

DB, God can do whatever he wants. I doubt that is hardly a problem for anyone in my camp. But what God decrees is not dictated by a few theological elite but rather the Scriptures. The problem YOU have is that you CAN NOT prove from Scripture how God arbitrarily elects a few unto salvation and the rest he sends to hell.

"Fact is, dispensationalism has no historic foundation prior to the mid 1800's."

Is this verse clear enough for you?

I Corinthians 7:11
"let not the husband put away his wife"

I encourage JD and Dwayne to read [URL=http://www.marriagedivorce.com/rudvin.pdf]]]this three part article[/URL] by a Reformed Christian. In a very scholarly way he deals with all the objections made by my position. He deals with the meaning of "fornication" in Matthew 19:9. He deals with the early church understanding and the Jewish context.

And since Wayne claims that the early church supports his view, I also provide him with [URL=http://www.bible.ca/H-divorce-remarriage.htm]]]this link.[/URL]

Trust him for what? That he will predestined them to go wherever he wants them to go. That's hardly trust. You will be more intellectually honest in telling him, "Sorry sucker, don't matter how much you desire them to go to heaven. There is not any amount of prayer that will change wherever God has predestined them. Best you sit back and cross your fingers. Hopefully God has not predetermined them to go to hell."
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"Blessings to you and all the Israel of God."

There is so much at stake concering this issue that I would do a disservice towards the topic if I were to try to tacle it with the limitations that SA provides.

Now to address your sentiments. In a perfect world, there would not be fornication, yet this is not an excuse to fornicate.

Like I exhorted Wayne, divorce and adultery are sinsthat God can be forgiven and thus one can move on. But to state that it is not a sin, as many do here, is a whole different ballgame.

Very simply, every time an unsaved does a good deed, he has just excercised his free will against his own sinful nature. That's not rocket science. I understand that YOU may have not done one ounce of good before you were saved, but that is not the case with the majority of people in this world.

"So how could God accept that which displeases him to regenerate them?!!"