Predestination VI

The Apostle Paul, quoting Psalms 14 and 53, wrote the following:

As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one: There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God. They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one. Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips: Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness:
Their feet are swift to shed blood: Destruction and misery are in their ways: And the way of peace have they not known: There is no fear of God before their eyes.

This is a quite convincing proof of predestination.  Those who believe human beings have *Free Will* believe people can seek after God.  But the scripture clearly says none seek after God.

The *Free Willers* would say none out of their own *Free Will* seek after God, not that they don't have the ability to seek after God.

But this can very easily be disproved.

At the time the Psalms were written, and at the much later date Paul was quoting them, the world was full of people seeking after *God.* The world was and is filled with *Gods.* The Egyptian *Gods,* the Norse *Gods,* the Hindu *Gods,* the Roman *Gods,* the Aztec *Gods,* the Babylonian *Gods,* etc., etc.

The world was filled with dopes seeking after *God.*  The world is still filled with dopes seeking after *God.*  How then can scripture say none seeketh after God? 

The people were seeking after a *god* of their choosing, a *god* of their understanding and making.  They were not seeking after The God.  God.  The True and Only God.

Only those God chose before the foundation of the world will seek after Him, because, as Jesus to said to the infidels:

No man can come to Me, except the Father which hath sent Me draw him: and I will raise him up at the last day.