Biblical truith is that God wants everyone to be saved, 1 Tim 2:3-6.
No, your "interpretation" of 1 Tim 2:3-6 contradicts
DOZENS
of other Scriptures so we know (absolutely) your interpretation
is not Biblical and, therefore, incorrect.
You could try to
HARMONIZE that passage with all the other
RELATED Scriptures... in order to find Biblical Truth. Or you can
continue to reject and intentionally ignore contradicting verses
and pretend that is not you designing your own personal "gospel".
Biblical truth is that Jesus Christ died for everyone, John 1:29, 2 Cor 5:14,15, Heb 2:9, 1 Tim 4:10, 1 John 4:10.
No, your "interpretation" of those passages contradicts
DOZENS
of other Scriptures so we know (absolutely) your interpretation
is not Biblical and, therefore, incorrect.
When you cite the passages you LIKE and you intentionally
ignore the passages that contradict your "interpretation" then
you (a) have an incorrect interpretation or (b) are proclaiming
all of the
DOZENS of contradicting Scriptures are false....
and we KNOW (absolutely) the contradicting Scriptures
are not false, so your "interpretation" is false.
When you cite the passages you LIKE and intentionally ignore
the passages that contradict your "theory" then you are not
preaching the Gospel of the Bible at all... you are designing
your OWN personal gospel.
So the opinion that "some men were never meant to be saved" is fallacious and refuted by these clear verses.
So you think that JESUS was "fallacious" and incorrect when
HE SAID that some men were
NEVER MEANT to "
be converted"
and to have their "
sins forgiven"? That is interesting, you are actually
calling Jesus a liar. How do you "feel" about that?
Please tell me... how many
OTHER quotes of Christ do you
reject? Do you believe 50% of what Christ said? Or 25%?
How much of the
WORDS OF CHRIST do you reject?
If you have NO PROBLEM rejecting the
WORDS OF CHRIST
then you can design whatever "gospel" you like. This is a very
common practice among nominal "Christians"... of course the only
PROBLEM is, as they (intentionally) reject the
WORDS OF CHRIST
(instead of HARMONIZING all related Scriptures), they are only pretending
to themselves. Their pretending does not change the Gospel truth or
reality.
Again, since we KNOW the problem is NOT that Scripture
contradicts itself, then we also know (absolutely) that the
problem is with your "interpretation" of related passages and
your willingness to reject and intentionally ignore what Jesus said.
However, God has always known how many would reject the free gift. But the gift was available anyway. That's grace.
Of course the PROBLEM is the Gospel is not a "free offer"...
since the Gospel clearly says some men were
CREATED to be
"
vessels of destruction" [Rom 9] and some men were
NEVER MEANT to be saved [Mark 4] and many of the
"Christians" in church are "
children of Satan" [Mat 13]
Instead, the (true) Gospel is a proclamation of the
FINISHED
work of Christ and a command for all men to repent.... even
though ONLY those "
chosen" or "
elected" will be "
indwelt"
and ABLE to repent.
The (Biblical) fact that
NO MAN will (really) "
seek God" [Rom 3]
does not mean they are not accountable for their sins. And the
(Biblical) fact that
NO MAN can come to Christ unless the Father
"
draws" them and
ALL MEN that are drawn "
shall come" to Jesus,
and He will lose
NONE of "
His sheep"... does not mean that those
NOT "
chosen" or "
elected" to be saved are not accountable for
their sins.
You are preaching a "works gospel" which is foreign to the Bible.
You are pretending that MAN decides who is saved when the Bible
insists GOD decides who is to be saved, based ONLY on His Own
Good Pleasure and not on any "work" of man.
You follow a false synergistic gospel where MAN is sovereign
and autonomous "
like God". The true monergistic Gospel is
that God is sovereign and "
elected" who He would save... and
who He would
CREATE to be "
vessels of destruction".
So, when
JESUS says that some men were
NEVER MEANT
to "
perceive" or "
understand" or "
be converted" or have their
"
sins forgiven"... your false gospel REQUIRES you to ignore the
WORDS OF CHRIST. Good luck with that.
So, people will end up in the lake of fire because they either outright rejected the free gift, or simply weren't interested in knowing about the gift.
That is your (false) interpretation which contradicts the
WORDS OF CHRIST that
(a) some men were
NEVER MEANT to "
be converted" or
have their "
sins forgiven" [Mark 4] and
(b)
NO MAN can come to Christ unless the Father "
draws" them
and
ALL MEN the Father draws "
shall come" to Jesus and He
loses
NONE of "
His sheep" [John 6] and
(c) God
CREATES some men to be "
vessels of destruction"
and other men to be "
vessels of mercy" [Rom 9] and
(d) those who have their sins PAID by Christ are those "
chosen"
or "
elected" before the foundation of the world based ONLY on
God's Good Purpose and NOT on anything they would do... like accepting or rejecting some fictitious "free offer".
Tell me... were all the Gentiles living in the OT times able to be
saved? Were all the "
tares" in the NT times (sown by Satan)
able to be saved... being "
children of Satan"? Or were these
people
NEVER MEANT to be saved?
Again, your confusion and false "gospel" is the result of accepting
the Scriptures you LIKE and rejecting or intentionally ignoring all
the passages you don't like. That is NOT following the Gospel of
the Bible at all... that is designing your own personal "gospel".
Jim
