No. I believe in free will. I believe that some hate authority and literally choose hell rather than be under God's thumb. But there is no real litmus test to know who is going to hell.
In such a case, you have something voluntary going on. It is a case of mercy tempering justice, not a case of injustice.
What have they done to be loved less? Is that a serious question?
Of course it's a serious question. What have they done to deserve to be loved less than those who are saved? There should be some criteria. If it's random, it's unjust. It is shocking to me that Calvinists don't understand this obvious point.
It's shocking that you think anyone deserves to be loved at all.
You can always try to convince me its not a non sequitur by explaining to me the relevance of the question.Nice dodge.
To pay the cost for the sins of all the world, so that any person could choose to repent, confess, be baptized, and enter into new life in Jesus Christ, being restored into communion with the Father through the Holy Spirit.
I trust that God knew what he was doing. The Bible uses "redeemed" and atoned.
I guess if I had to put it into my own words, although I don't believe in Total Depravity, sin is bad enough that we are out of harmony with God, with others, with nature, and with ourselves. And though we try, we cannot restore ourselves to harmony.
Yes. Absolutely. Although the way I see it, it's their own choice. God is basically giving them what they've asked for.
Because in that scenario, they weren't choosing. God was NOT giving them what they wanted, because they had no capacity to want anything other than what God determined--it was God determining, not them.
Like I said, we are not totally depraved. All it takes for us not to enter heaven is for us not to be perfect.
