These are some quick thoughts I had in the past that I typed out, saved and just found again. I was thinking about how some people view God as trying to save people rather than actually saving them. This thought process lead me think of God being a failure since He tried to save all, but all aren’t saved. Below I put forth some common Evangelical beliefs of people who think God is just trying to save everyone with the potentiality Christ’s sacrifice actually redeeming.
Premises:
1. God unequivocally wants all people to be saved. (referring to God’s decretive will not just His revealed will although most may not even think in these terms)
2. God gives each person equal measures of grace that they can cooperate with and be saved or resist and be damned.
3. Every single person has the ability to believe by cooperating with God’s measure of grace He’s given them.
4. God is working within His creation to save all people trying to persuade/convince them to believe.
5. God in His omniscience and omnipotence knows what it would take for each person to believe and can maneuver elements in each persons life to so affect them.
Given the above which seems to me to be a general overview of what most evangelicals believe why doesn’t everyone believe and be saved?
Just wondering,
Mark
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