Man must be revealed Christ in truth via regeneration by Gods Spirit. And that revelation only comes to those God has chosen to save in Christ.
God created everyone, Genesis 1:26-27
Everyone has sinned, Romans 3:23
Everyone needs a Saviour, we cannot come to God without Jesus, Acts 4:12
God wants to save everyone, 2 Peter 3:9, though not everyone will receive the free gift that he gives, Romans 6:23.
Unless you are saying that God created, and has created, all people in his image, but has decided that some will never know the One who created them, his love, grace or salvation. Then he can send them to hell for rejecting him, when he had already decided that thy would never have the chance to know him.
That's not love.
The rest are blinded and left in their natural state to bear Gods wrath and justice on that great day for their sin.
What sin?
How have they sinned against God if he already decided that they would never know him, or reject him and his word?
How can they have been judged to have disobeyed his commands, if God himself has decided they will never know, or accept, them?
Your choices and decisions in life that move you are centered around your sinful nature.
Don't you believe, then, that God can move in someone's life, speak or minister to them even though they aren't aware of it?
Supposing an unbeliever is passing a church, feels prompted to go inside, though they don't know why, hear the Gospel and become a Christian? Their "natural tendency" may have been to keep on walking and have nothing to do with religion, yet they found themselves going in and giving their lives to Christ. I read a testimony from an author who had just that experience. He and his mates had gone to church to laugh and mock; they all left, he went back because he realised he had left his coat behind, heard the Gospel and became a Christian. As did the friend who went back to see why he was taking so long.
People are drawn to Christ in many many ways, when they are doing other things and wanting to do other things.
So to say you have free will is nonsense. We only make decisions based off our natural tendency.
We were all made by God, in his image, Genesis 1:26-27, Psalm 8:5.
EVERYTHING that is in the world was made thought Jesus, John 1:3.
Adam only had life when the Lord put his Spirit, or breath, into him, Genesis 2:7.
So ALL were made by God and only have life because God, our maker, gave it. Mankind sinned and now have a fallen nature; true. That doesn't negate, or override, the fact that we were all made by God, for him, and have his breath within us - it means that we all need God to draw us back to himself. Our fallen natures, and the devil, may tell us not to come to God. No one likes to have their sin exposed; Jesus said that men will not go to the light for fear their in will be exposed; they'd rather live in darkness. The devil wants to keep people in darkness for as long as possible - he is a liar, a murderer and the prince of darkness.
But God's love is stronger; stronger than all the powers of darkness, Romans 8:38-39.
And our choices in life are moved and governed by the decrees of God.
So if I were to kill my husband it's because it was God's will for me to do so?
If I were to reject my faith it would be because it was God's plan and decree for me to reject him and all he has done for me? If I go out and disobey his word and commands, it's because he wants me to do so?
If that were the case, there would be no sin.
If God asked someone, after death, "why did you reject my Son and resist my Spirit?" the only possible answer is "because you had already decided and planned that I should do so."
Romans 9 teaches that your “god of love” as you say, is an imagination and non existent.
No it doesn't.
God is love - 1 John 4:8.
God has sown how much he loves us by sending his Son to die for SINNERS, Romans 5:8 - clue, we are all sinners, Romans 3:23.
This is what love is, Jesus Christ gave his life for us, 1 John 3:16.
This is not the God of the Bible
Yes it is.
I don't know about you, but the God I believe in;
made me in his image, Genesis 1:26-27
knows everything about me and saw me before I was born, Psalm 139
has called me by name, Isaiah 43:1
has engraved my name on the palm of his hands, Isaiah 49:16
thinks that I am worth more than the birds he created, Matthew 5:26,
says that I am one of his sheep, Psalm 100:3, John 10:14 and he is my shepherd, Psalm 23:1, John 10:11
loves me so much that he did not want to leave me in my sin, Romans 5:6-8, Romans 5:10, Ephesians 2:7, Romans 6:23
sent his Son to die for me and reconcile me to him, Romans 5:10, 2 Corinthians 5:18, Ephesians 1:7, Colossians 1:20.
has given me his Spirit, Romans 8:9, 1 Corinthians 12:3, and through this Spirit has guaranteed my future inheritance, 2 Corinthians 1:22, 2 Corinthians 5:5, Colossians 1:12-13
has made me his child, Romans 8:16-17, 1 John 3:1
This is love. I was a sinner, without God, lost in my sin; he rescued me and gave me all this, Ephesians 1:3.
This is love, not that we loved God but that he loved us and gave his Son for us, 1 John 4:10.
God has shown us how much he loves us; while we were still sinners, Christ died for us, Romans 5:8.
The God of the Bible is love. God created the world in love. The source of, and power behind, the whole universe is not darkness, hatred, vindictiveness, but light and love. In God there is NO darkness at all, 1 John 1:5.
If it was God's will/command that people remain in their sin because he wanted to send some to hell, why did he send his Son to rescue us? Why did he say that there is no salvation without Jesus, Acts 4:12, that Jesus is the only way to God, John 14:6 and that those who reject Jesus will not have eternal life, John 3:16, John 3:36, 1 John 5:12?
Why pray - if God has decided the outcome and knows what he will do? How could Abraham plead with God not to destroy the city for the sake of 50 people - then 40, then 30, then 20, then 10?
Why evangelise and obey the Great Commission as Jesus asked - if the natural inclination of men's hearts is against God, and he has already decided to send people to hell?
I worship a God who is love, compassionate and full of mercy and grace.
