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To: irishtenor
“God could save everyone, however, he chooses to save only some. Why? If I knew, I would be God, which I am not (for sure :>)”

If God is Love.How can love not want ALL to be saved?How could God not will this for all?.
Christianity is about freely following the will of God!

If God does not will love for all than God is not love

10,416 posted on 11/04/2007 6:39:19 PM PST by stfassisi ("Above all gifts that Christ gives his beloved is that of overcoming self"St Francis Assisi)
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To: stfassisi

***If God is Love.How can love not want ALL to be saved?How could God not will this for all?.
Christianity is about freely following the will of God!

If God does not will love for all than God is not love***

God is love. God is also righteous, pure, unstained, holy, blameless, faithful, just, etc.
In his nature there is no wrong. God in his infinite wisdom, allowed even some of his highest creation, angels, to stray. That is how Satan came to Earth. God allows Satan to do his evil on man. Man, because of his inability to obey God due to the sin nature, follows Satan instead. God chooses some of these fallen men to change, to become born again, to be a new creation. God, in his justice and righteousness, does not have to do this, but because God is also love he chooses some. He doesn’t have to.

God could also change everybody, but he doesn’t. No one is able to understand why.

God could save every one, but he only save the few. Does that make him any more or less just, righteous, loving? No.

If God chooses to save the few, does that make him weak? No, he could save everybody, he has the power, the ability to do it. It is his plan, his will, his right to do with us as HE wills. We are just created objects that he can do with as he wills.

When man assumes that God is unloving because he doesn’t save everybody, we are putting our feelings above the will of God.


10,418 posted on 11/04/2007 6:51:13 PM PST by irishtenor (How much good could a Hindu do, if a Hindu could do good?)
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