"Might" does not grant mercy to all.
Where do you find that stated?
As regards grace of salvation, "Might" does not mean all are granted mercy by God, but the offer of mercy is made by God to all people through the Gospel (
John 3:16).
- Many receive mercy, because they believe.
- Not all receive mercy, because not all will believe.
- But mercy is offered to all through the Gospel
And God desires to have mercy on all. You questioned me several times as if that was not God's desire at all, that is, if I understand you correctly. How can you look at all the Passages I listed for you showing God's Love and Grace extended to all people through the sacrifice of His Son, and then question whether God desires to have mercy on all?
Isaiah 45:21-22 (WEB)
21 There is no other God besides me, a just God and a Savior. There is no one besides me.
22 “
Look to me, and be saved, all the ends of the earth; for I am God, and there is no other.
Ezekiel 33:11 (WEB)
11 Tell them, ‘“As I live,” says the Lord Yahweh, “
I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked; but that the wicked turn from his way and live.
Turn, turn from your evil ways! For why will you die, house of Israel?”’
Matthew 23:37 (WEB)
37 “Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to her!
How often I would have gathered your children together, even as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, and you would not!
1 Timothy 2:3-6 (WEB)
3 This is good, and pleases
God our Savior, 4 who desires all people to be saved and to come to a knowledge of the truth. 5 For there is one God and one mediator between God and mankind, the man Christ Jesus, 6
who gave himself as a ransom for all people. This has now been witnessed to at the proper time.
Romans 11:32 (WEB)
For God has shut up all to disobedience, that
he might have mercy on all.
That mercy and grace of God are accessed by faith:
Romans 5:1-2 (NIV)
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.
God offers his mercy and grace of salvation to all people.
Romans 11:32 (WEB)
For God has shut up all to disobedience, that
he might have mercy on all.
Titus 2:11 (WEB) 11 For the grace of God has appeared,
bringing salvation to all men
Hebrews 2:9 (WEB) 9 But we see him who has been made a little lower than the angels, Jesus, because of the suffering of death crowned with glory and honor, that by the grace of God
he should taste of death for everyone.
The grace and mercy of God is offered to all through the Gospel. Those who access that grace and mercy are the “whosoever” that will believe.
John 3:14-18 (WEB) 14 As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up, 15
that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life. 16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that
whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life. 17 For God didn’t send his Son into the world to judge the world, but
that the world should be saved through him. 18
He who believes in him is not judged. He who doesn’t believe has been judged already, because he has not believed in the name of the one and only Son of God.
So, regarding salvation, does God explain to us in the Gospel who he desires to have mercy on
? … Yes - to all.
Do all receive that mercy
? …
No
Why not? Not all receive God’s mercy, because many will resist the Gospel message and the worldwide conviction of the Spirit, and so will refuse to listen or believe.
Acts 7:51 (WEB) You stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears,
you always resist the Holy Spirit! As your fathers did, so you do.
Ezekiel 3:7 (WEB) 7 But the house of Israel will not listen to you, for they will not listen to me; for all the house of Israel are obstinate and hard-hearted.
Acts 28:28 (WEB) 28 “Be it known therefore to you, that the salvation of God is sent to the nations, and
they will listen.”
“whosoever” believes, are the ones who receive the mercy and grace of God onto salvation, and
so receive the Spirit to give them spiritual life onto salvation –
only by faith.
John 7:37-39 (WEB)
37 Now on the last and greatest day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried out, “If anyone is thirsty,
let him come to me and drink!
38
He who believes in me, as the Scripture has said, from within him
will flow rivers of living water.” 39 But
he said this about the Spirit, which those believing in him were to receive.
John 4:14 (WEB) 14 but
whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never thirst again; but the water that I will give him will become in him
a well of water springing up to eternal life.”
You are reading that into the text, not out of the text.
You accuse me of reading into the text, but the fact is, I am reading the context of Scripture into the text, just as I have described.
Jesus said he "came to die as a ransom for many" (Mt 20:28), he did not say "all."
True, not everyone is ransomed – In
Matthew 20:28, the emphasis is on the fact that Lord Jesus did not guarantee to ransom everyone – no unconditional universal ransom for every person, but Jesus' sacrifice is sufficient to ransom all people.
Lord Jesus sacrifice is sufficient to ransom all people.
1 Timothy 2:6 (WEB)
Christ Jesus, 6 who gave himself as a ransom for all people.
Yet, only those who believe appropriate that ransom to themselves.
For salvation is by faith in Jesus because of the Gospel that is offered to all people.
And you have not addressed the following from post #339:
Everything you brought up I did address, including the hardening (msg 342). You are bringing up again what I had already addressed without responding to what I addressed.
Blessings