[aruanan]

All men are our concern. Jesus is not of the Calvinist persuasion. He does not say: or any sort of variation on that theme. All men. All men are willed to be saved; all men are worthy of saving; it is our duty to God to attempt to save them.

I don't recall that I said anything about Calvinist or non-Calvinist teaching, just that Paul accepted a view that we are all God's offspring and, therefore, all each other's brothers (especially considering our original parents).

[MarkBsnr]

I don't recall that I said anything about Calvinist or non-Calvinist teaching, just that Paul accepted a view that we are all God's offspring and, therefore, all each other's brothers (especially considering our original parents).

Only to a certain extent. The Jews are God's chosen people. The Christians are adopted into that family by belief in God. We can stand back and say that God created all men, so that all men are brothers, which is really another level of brotherhood. The Beatitudes, for instance, refer to all humans as our brothers. Two different meanings, here.