God does not show partiality as far as rich over the poor, the wise over the unwise, etc. But this does not negate the doctrine of unconditional salvation of the doctrine of ELection of grace.
Prove it. Btw, you cannot, there's not a verse that you can present without taking it out of its context. You are welcome to try.
John Calvin did not invent this truth, he just happened to believe in it. For your information, Martin Luther who was a contemporary with John Calvin, just a little before him ~ believed in Election of grace, so did many others before them, the list is long. Besides, who cares who believe it or not, what does the word of God teach.... and there is overwhelming evidence that it is one of the foundational doctrines of the scriptures, which even a novice can see and teach to a certain degree.
First, you are using hell in a very limited sense~but another subject for another day.
So, do you have problem with God electing some to inherit eternal life life, and bypassing others? Read Romans 9;17-22~for God's answer to you.
So many errors in this one statement. You are reasoning based upon what you have heard other men teach about about God's will in the salvation of men from sin and condemnation.
Give me scriptures that you think may support your understanding, take your best shot~I saw the three you stumbled through above, yet I'll give you a chance to put in order your best argument, and if you need help, call some of your friends to help, pretty sure you will need them.
We know that faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of Christ.
Romans 10:17. We know that God saves those who believe
– 1 Corinthians 1:21. We know that we receive the spirit and are sealed with the spirit through belief in the gospel-
Ephesians 1:13.
Sin is the transgression of the law-
1 John 3:4. Sin is known thorough/by the law-
Romans 7:7. The law is a schoolmaster to bring us to Christ-
Galatians 3:24-25. Where there is no law there is no transgression of the law-
Romans 4:14. Sin is not counted against anyone when there is no law
. Romans 5:13.
In Colossians 2:13-15 we read the following: When you were dead in your sins and in the uncircumcision of your flesh, God made you alive with Christ.
He forgave us all our sins, 14 having canceled the charge of our legal indebtedness, which stood against us and condemned us
; he has taken it away, nailing it to the cross. 15 And having disarmed the powers and authorities, he made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them by the cross.
Ephesians 2:14-15: For he himself is our peace, who has made the two groups one and has destroyed the barrier, the dividing wall of hostility,
15 by setting aside in his flesh the law with its commands and regulations. His purpose was to create in himself one new humanity out of the two, thus making peace,
16 and in one body to reconcile both of them to God through the cross, by which he put to death their hostility.
2 Corinthians 5:18-20: All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation:
19 that God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting people’s sins against them. And he has committed to us the message of reconciliation.
20 We are therefore Christ’s ambassadors, as though God were making his appeal through us. We implore you on Christ’s behalf: Be reconciled to God.
So, we see from the above scriptures it’s not sin per se that keeps the sinner from God it is unbelief. Faith is the issue. In
Romans 5:1-2 we read the following: Therefore, since
we have been justified through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ,
2 through whom
we have gained access by faith into this grace in which we now stand. And we boast in the hope of the glory of God
Its unbelief that keeps one from salvation and places them under condemnation. This is taught throughout the N.T. gospels and epistles. Here we see what Jesus and Paul declared below.
John 3:18: Whoever believes in him is not condemned,
but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because they have not believed in the name of God’s one and only Son.
John 3:36: Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life, but whoever rejects the Son will not see life, for God’s wrath remains on them
Romans 11:20: Granted. But they were broken off because of unbelief, and you stand by faith.
Hebrews 3:19: So, we see that they were not able to enter, because of their unbelief. Cf Heb 4:6- unbelief
Our loving God takes no pleasure in the death of the wicked (Ezekiel 33:11). Our loving Father took pleasure to bruise His Son to reconcile us to God as an offering for our sins. (Isaiah 53:10).
It is by faith in the Son through the message of the gospel that saves and unbelief which condemns. The gospel is for
all mankind,
all the world, for everyone. God desires
all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth. (1 Timothy 2:4). God is the Savior of
all men, especially of believers (1 Timothy. 4:10), For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to
everyone (Titus 2:11) For God has consigned
all to disobedience, that he may have mercy on
all (Romans 11:32). The Lord is not slow in keeping His promise as some understand slowness, but is patient with you, not wanting
anyone to perish but
everyone to come to repentance (2 Peter 3:9). God sent His Son into the world to take away the sin of the world (John 1:29) and He Himself is the propitiation for our sins; and not for ours only, but also
for sins of the whole world. (1 John 2:2). and He died for
all, that those who live should live no longer for themselves, but for Him who died for them and rose again (2 Corinthians 5:15). But we do see Jesus, who was made lower than the angels for a little while, now crowned with glory and honor because he suffered death, so that by the grace of God he might taste death for
everyone. (Hebrews 2:9)
hope this helps !!!
